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Published: 2019-08-15 06:22:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 9999; Favourites: 185; Downloads: 0
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Terran Federation standard Assault rifle.Rail goes in the front, which is why there's a bit of bulk up there. No charging handle needed, it's all automatic inside the weapon
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I mean they both still use magnetics at the end of the day
thank you
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So it automatically chambers caseless rounds... what do you do when it jams?
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They're slugs, not caseless rounds. I misspoke. Didn't know what railgun rounds were called.
There's that pin in the back that you can pop out to open up the weapon and move any blockage before closing up and firing again
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It's a railgun, but the slugs would be around the size of an 8mm round. Shell and everything
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Nice, intermediate rounds
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Blunt, grunt 101 weapon - and very well designed too
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I think the middle would look good with a bit more detail such as safety/mag release etc. Just a suggestion though
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It's on the other side actually. I uploaded the picture from the wrong side
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It's a simple design. Based on the m4/m16 design. It's been pointed out in most groups that I've posted this in that it could probably do with more, which are understandable.
My thoughts are the setting takes place like 700+ years from now so there should still be some give and take on what can be accomplished in terms of advancements in that time in terms of weapons. Just my thoughts, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Very good rifle model, dude!
also dirty af, can't someone clean that shit?
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Not that dirty. About as dirty as it could be from wear and tear
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See here's the thing, it's not a standard round, it's caseless ammunition fired from a magnetic rail system. A bolt for firing standard projectiles would be different if that were the case
-or that. that works too. Early concept had one, and an ejection port, but I realized they wouldn't need an ejection port if it's caseless ammunition
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Charging handle is for manually cycling the feed mechanism. And you need the feed mechanism for chambering the round - moving it from the mag to whereever it is fired. So you can't get really bypass it: a mag-fed design needs a charging handle. Leaving that out just because you're pretty sure it won't fail would be pretty stupid - it WILL fail and it's guaranteed to happen at the worst possible moment.
Caseless ammo is a pain in the ass to deal with. It needs no ejection port so the guns don't have it, and so there's no easy access to the action if anything goes wrong. Things like failure to feed, failure to fire, double-feed, you name it - it just happens, there's no way around it. Dealing with these failures in a caseless ammo gun is so much worse than in a normal weapon an takes so much more time. Also, caseless ammunition is square (best space utilization efficienty in the mag to store the most propellant per round) so the magazine would be straight.
Why is this a railgun if it's a conventional firearm (albeit with unconventional design)? Having gunpowder for propulsion defeats the purpose of having a railgun, which is not to have chemical propulsion, not to mention that at this point you simply don't need the railgun propulsion - the gunpowder does the job already.
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I never said it's been removed, just part of the internal mechanism of the rifle, automatic. I mean this is the year 2773.
That's completely fair though on the second bit, but I'd imagine why make a square round, when you can keep it somewhat like how bullets currently are shaped.
It's not a conventional firearm? I thought that was made clear?
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Even in year 2773 things will fail from time to time. It really gonna suck when (not if) automatic charging mechanism gonna fail mid-battle and there's no manual backup.
As I said, caseless ammo is square because that way you can fit more propellant in a given space (round bullets waste 22% volume due to empty space around them), so you can use smaller magazines or increase capacity of existing magazines. Technically, they only need to be quadrilateral to maximize volume usage, but making them square allows to fit them at any angle and being symmetrical generally means simpler gun design.
Using gunpowder makes it a conventional firearm, it's pretty simple. The real question is, why does this gun has two suboptimally* designed methods of projectile propulsion, instead of using a single really good one?
*you wouldn't need two-stage propulsion if single-stage was designed with appropriate power to provide the needed muzzle velocity
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I just figured o- ok so when I said caselss, I misspoke. I mean, since a railgun doesn't need to fire the rounds, then I assumed it would have just meant the round would be caseless regardless, so that's on me for misunderstanding the sci-fi technicalities. It's all just launched from the rail instead of a two-step propulsion thing.
But you're right, rifles fail. That forward hatch was supposed to be a way to get in and look at stuff, though it may be a bit too far forward for jammed rounds
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Yeah the appropriate term would be "slugs" or "bolts" or even simply "bullets". The "caseless" specifically refers to gunpowder-powered ammo with solid propellant and no powder casing. It's usually just a brick of propellant with a bullet and a primer embedded in it.
There would need to be a motor to move the slugs from the mag into the barrel, if that fails then the gun is basically crippled even if there's a handle. But hey, a bolt action railgun is better than a paperweight.
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I mean... a bold probably wouldn't be all that hard to model in. You're saying it's probably best to add it?
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You could just say that it's there. Charging handle on on G36 gun is usually flush, you pull the tab and then it becomes a handle. On a railgun, you'd need to push the bolt forward, so there could be a small tab on the back which you lift and push to load a round.
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Alright! That makes sense then, thanks for the help!
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Another one of them that I've seen from start to finish, very good work!
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No prob, looking forward to the next!
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Negative. You must enlist first
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