Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "" video.

I can assure you the Ukrainians swap barrels with some amount of frequency. If your enemy is satisfied with a "have more bodies than the position has bullets" strategy, then quick change is a must... if you have more ammo than a barrel will handle. There is another country, with a vary large population they don't care too much about, that I find it likely to employ the same tactics if push comes to shove.
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@Moneta_Kiss Thank you for your service! I have seen footage from trenches where the piles of empty cases were near knee high, so I assumed someone had been giving it the whole nine yards in a prolonged fight. But if it's doctrine to move between different places in the trenches fairly rapidly, it also makes sense that the piles will build up over time on the spots that has the best visibility.
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@geofox9484 Except I served in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. But being an artillerist, and not an infantryman, I obviously mostly have secondhand info. I've seen vehicle mounted LMG barrels dimly glow in the night in Afghanistan after a long engagement. Those guys simply didn't have spare barrels, but would have liked some. What this guy says makes sense in the era of drones, so I'll have to update my opinion accordingly.
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It's as if weapons from countries that have a large conscript element to their defense force tend to be... conscript proof. High speed low drag special operators don't just gank harder on things that don't want to go. They know when something feels off and know how to remedy it, and they generally like their equipment. Conscripts don't like the heavy thing they've been told to carry... They merely tolerate it.
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@Moneta_Kiss Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Google is doing a great job of translating.
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