Automatic weapons turn relatively straight forward ammo into game changers.
An M2 machine gun loaded with some sort of AP ammunition works as a light anti armour weapon (up to anything short of a tank or APC with extra armour) and can even provide air defence against most air threats the project might face (until you start including attack helicopters etc)
That's before you get it's sheer intimidation factor for almost any group which doesn't have something similar.
An M60 machine gun can do almost the samething in a far smaller and more portable package.
So even if it was only one per team the Project would view automatic weapons as essential.
Also anything more sophisticated is only of use until the ammo runs out.
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