Re: Type 95 assault rifle
It's not just the average joe either. A friend of mine, who majored in WW2 history and is currently in the Navy, also believes that China won the Korea War with human wave tactics.
Well...
if China
won the Korea War using human wave tactics, then by all means let anyone believe it. It doesn't matter what tactics are being employed (unless you want to major in the historical military tactics for whatever reason). However who won and who lost is a point that are debatable. The US said that they won, because they managed to push the North out of the South past the parallel. China said that they won because they push the allied forces back pass the parallel. So in a sense the allie and China won that war, as both had achieve what they set out to do, the only party losing the war is Korea, which is... they are splitted into two faction. But we can discuss that in the history thread.
The Color black is not commonly found in nature and when viewed from NOD stands out as darker then everything else. so a solid black object will stand out especially in a light colored environment like say a desert in daylight. now some colors are almost found everywhere like the color of sand it's neutral enough too be just about every where in urban desert and woodland area's so by choosing a neutral hue like it you can do a quick fix on standing out best is a full camo job done too match that particular area. Snipers have known this for decades and more and more military small arms are getting paint jobs now in tan or green or even camo patterns identical or simplified from there Combat uniforms, this means means the the weapons blend with the gear and if the gear blends with the environment, then your silhouette is broken and ergo you are harder too shoot at.
Actually black is still the most common colour used. It is the most neutral colour and do not reflect light that well... so it is quite acceptable. Although black had all the standard issues as pointed out by you (and fully accepted and agreed by me), it is still better than many other colour.
If stealth is that much needed, I would believe that most rifles are able to have camouflage done to them. I am in the Army before, and I was trained to camouflage my old M16 rifle too. however even without camouflaging, it would take quite a bit of time to actually identify rifle from branch when a soldier is well camouflaged in the thick of a jungle even without the need to camouflage the rifle.
