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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5569632" data-attributes="member: 5868">Well, it's a bit more convoluted than that.  The WWII squad included the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) as its suppression weapon.  Post Korea, the M14 was created to provide selectable automatic firepower for every rifleman in the squad; the M16 didn't come on the scene in quantity until about 1965.The modern assault rifle was really created by the Germans in WWII, adopted shortly thereafter by the Russians with the Ak47, and didn't see western armies in quantity until the M16 (rifles like the M14, G3, and FN FAL being more battle rifles than assault rifles) -- but were largely not present on Korean battlefields. SMGs were, but SMGs are poor cousins to true assault rifles, sharing high rate of fire but lacking range and accuracy.Korean war tech at the individual level was pretty much WWII standard US and Russian equipment.  Vehicles did advance with another generation of armored personnel carriers and tanks, but the big changes were in the sky with jet aircraft and helicopters now widespread (though both made their combat debut in WWII).  Napalm was also a WWII development, but became much more widespread in Korea as a means to defeat "human wave" attacks.</blockquote>