Questão de leigo civil: a alteração de calibre vai também obrigar a modificar a organização/tacticas das unidade de escalão secção / pelotão?
Agora temos secção com G3+MG3(ou HK21) - iremos passar a ter (exemplo) G36+MG4 na secção e MG3(HK21) no pelotão, como o Reino Unido, etc...?
Os BatInfPARA (visto já terem 5,56mm) já usam esta ultima forma?
Infantry Section"The 1990s again brought a new "family" of weapons to the Infantry Section. The FN C1 was replaced by the Canadian version of the M-16, called a C7 and offering several dozen improvements over the similar American weapon. Chiefly, it had the advantage of firing fully automatic. It also fired a 5.56mm round, as did its American counterpart; this smaller round became the new NATO standard. The old NATO standard, the 7.62mm, was retained for use with the C6 General Purpose Machine Gun. This weapon was already coaxially mounted on Grizzly APCs, Cougar FSVs, and Leopard tanks and was now destined to replace the Browing GPMG. At the section level, the FN C2 was replaced by the C9, also known as the Minimi, which could be fired either from belts of 5.56 mm ammunition, or in an emergency fed from C7 magazines.
Section Commander - Sergeant - C7
Rifleman - Corporal/Private - C7
Rifleman/Grenadier - Corporal/Private - C7/M203
C9 Gunner - Corporal/Private - C9 LMG
Section 2 i/c - Master Corporal - C7
Rifleman - Corporal/Private - C7
Rifleman - Corporal/Private - C7/M203
C9 Gunner - Corporal/Private - C9 LMG
According to Captain Michael O'Leary of the Royal Canadian Regiment:
At about the same time (as the C7 replaced the FN) came a fundamental shift to the philosophy and tactics of the eight-man infantry section as the 'normal' tactical group for dismounted tactics. The eight man dismounted section is normally organized into two balanced rifle groups, each with one C9 light machine gun. In the assault, the section commander controls the parallel movement of the two groups toward the objective with each group alternatively providing covering fire for the other. As the section closes and as dictated by the ground, the effectiveness of enemy resistance and by the section's casualties, the section commander will order the groups to commence fire and movement within the groups by fire teams (pairs) supporting each other. Finally, fire and movement by individual riflemen within the teams might be ordered.
The Infantry may have, inadvertently or otherwise, adopted along with these changes some bad baggage. The two-fire-group assault is an effective tactic for trained infantrymen in short intense assaults with plenty of outside supporting fire (infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, artillery, etc.). But, it can only work over very short distances. The nature of the section's movement requires that each of the eight riflemen move from position of fire to position of fire, necessarily within the enemy's view and returning defensive fire. Unless the control of fire within the section is superb, the enemy is sufficiently suppressed, and the attacking soldiers have impeccable discipline to continue moving forward in the face of fire from an entrenched (or at least static) enemy, the attack will fail from loss of momentum or the likely casualty rate). When this assault tactic is used over too great a distance, or by soldiers without the training, experience or discipline to make it succeed, the section (or other, i.e. non-infantry, small unit) will die."
