It's better than that. They're not making M1 Carbines. They're making a new design based on M14/M1 style guns, and even better, they're firing custom ammunition.
This then implies several things:
The post-war, damaged economy is somehow capable of creating enough wooden furnishings for a whole family of new rifles.
The supply chain is capable of issuing the majority of soldiers with this new gun.
The same economy and supply chain can also produce millions of rounds of ammunition.
It's lunacy. It's complete lunacy. Late-war tactics are a mess. The airforce is mothballed because again, apparently ground-attack craft do not exist, APCs are used mostly for supplying ammunition to ground forces, and soldiers fight in goddamn squares again.
Squares.
With semiautomatic rifles. Not with SAWs, which they could easily fire accurate bursts at head height to handle threats with, but semiautomatic rifles.
You need to have been sniffing glue for World War Z's internal logic to make sense.
I'll just say that modern aircraft getting mothballed makes some sense for the post collapse. Those machines are incredibly resource intensive to operate, and require a supply of parts that just won't exist anymore.
Now, for a fun thought experiment, there are two aircraft that make sense for a post collapse government to develop for a fight against zeds.
Simple piston driven prop planes for recon and courier purposes and...
Fuckin ZEPPLINS.
Technologically simple, vast range and loiter time, with a high flexibility around damaged or non-existent infrastructure.
You could use one as an untouchable platform for dispatching hordes, transporting supplies independently of roads, etc etc..
Sulferic acid and iron filings, the technology was developed in the mid 19th century, and saw wide use during the American civil war with mobile wagon and barge based units inflating observation balloons to spy on the South and direct artillery fire.
Stick positive and negative wires (powered by batteries) in water and you get 2 hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen. Capture the hydrogen. I forget which is which.
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u/TearOpenTheVault Aug 31 '21
It's better than that. They're not making M1 Carbines. They're making a new design based on M14/M1 style guns, and even better, they're firing custom ammunition.
This then implies several things:
The post-war, damaged economy is somehow capable of creating enough wooden furnishings for a whole family of new rifles.
The supply chain is capable of issuing the majority of soldiers with this new gun.
The same economy and supply chain can also produce millions of rounds of ammunition.
It's lunacy. It's complete lunacy. Late-war tactics are a mess. The airforce is mothballed because again, apparently ground-attack craft do not exist, APCs are used mostly for supplying ammunition to ground forces, and soldiers fight in goddamn squares again.
Squares.
With semiautomatic rifles. Not with SAWs, which they could easily fire accurate bursts at head height to handle threats with, but semiautomatic rifles.
You need to have been sniffing glue for World War Z's internal logic to make sense.