>>27683204>and cost 6 times as much to build was shit?Where do you get that from?
If your source used dollars it's shit since conversion rates are totally fucked during wars.
Man hours (and raw material cost) are the only reliable thing to measure cost in a total war.
But the M1 Carbine was the better platform I agree, STG had a better cartridge.
M1 Carbine with 7.92mm kurz or any other intermediate cartridge would have been the best rifle of ww2 by far easily.
>>27683233Is Koborov the greatest weapon designer of all time?
>>27683253British people are arrogant so maybe that's why.
Maybe they thought wrongly they didn't need the extra volume of fire, or that the volume of fire provided by their light machineguns was plenty.
>>27683271>Because the PPSh was good enoughObviously not since the Soviets developed the superior pps.
And the M1 carbine had trouble penetrating winter jackets. ;-^)
