Suppressive fire has it's place. If it saves a life. Especially your own!
Suppressive fire is a waste of ammunition. That is, unless it is belt-fed, bipod supported, with a guncrew humping PLENTY of ammo.
I disabused some SOF types of this wive's tail on the range a couple of years ago. They wanted to do the classic "Aussie Peelback" that all of us KNEW was the best way to break contact, back in the day.
No problem, we had frangible ammo so we had them start the drill at 25yd with freshly painted steel torsos on the line. They started the drill and the 12 of 'em fired close to a thousand rounds through their M4's peeling back to 100yd. Not ONE HIT on any piece of stationary steel. Not one.
