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Skariaxil — R8 advanced versatile combat rifle, WIP
Published: 2014-01-21 14:53:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 2062; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 15
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The rumoured sooper dooper rifle. So far, it lacks some details (charging handle, safety switch, thumb hole grip, cheek weld).Anyway, the sales pitch:
-500mm cobalt flow formed barrel
-757mm overall
-Receiver is made of a carbyne frame and high impact polystyrene overmold
-three position gas regulator (suppressed, regular, dirty)
-60 round magazine
-electric trigger
-gas piston
-flash suppressor suppressor mount
-carbyne framed high impact polystyrene keymod fore arm with aluminium re-enforcements for the keymod holes
-adjustable stock
-thumb hole stock
-cheek rest
-ambidextrous safe-semi-full selector switch
-sabot capable suppressor
-magpul MBUS sights (not mine, I used these )
(remember, teh futur is here)
New:
-thumb hole stock
-cheek rest
-ambidextrous safe-semi-full selector switch
-sabot capable suppressor
-no more FDE, slate gray (-ish) is way superior.
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Comments: 9
It's a clean and neat looking design, though I bet it will look much better when completed.
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How does the caseless magazine and feed system work? Are you using a gas-operated pushthrough, like the Hughes prototype?
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A combination of the LSAT's swinging chamber and the LMG11's mechanism for rotating the rounds 90 degrees. The reason for the perpendicular alignment of the rounds is that the original idea used different magazines of different lengths (length being the same axis as the weapon's length) in order to have large capacity magazines without adding a lot of bulk to the weapon (like those 100 round beta mags, or whatever they're called).
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why an electric trigger? does it fire caseless ammunition? even so, you could make it mechanically-fired. mechanical triggers are always much more reliable than electric ones. if this thing is intended for military use, you've got to remember that soldiers will sometimes experience harsh environments with multiple things, like sand, snow, water and mud that can cause electric mechanisms to go fritz.
unless, of course, it is piezoelectric. however you'd only really benefit from such a thing if you were using caseless ammunition, or if this was a rocket laucher. even so, a mechanical system would probably be prefferable.
otherwise, this thing looks amazing. awesome job!
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To add to Skariaxil's explanation, using electric firing systems allow you to make caseless ammunition that burns at higher temperatures, which an electric firing system can achieve, so the ammo is less likely to cook off inside the gun or magazine on accident, since those temperature ranges are harder to through unintentional means...unless your gun falls into a fire, but at that point it probably isn't salvageable anyway.
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It's certainly won't be the kind of Texas barbecue we all like.
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It does fire caseless ammunition, as seen here . The reason I'm going with electric over mechanical is because a mechanical trigger and hammer and what have you take up a lot of space that I need for the rifle's operating mechanism (somewhat comparable to the LMG-11, the G-11's 300 round capacity brother).
I haven't really given any thought as to what kind of system it ought to be, other than a trigger on one end and a spark on the other, but piezoelectric sounds practical enough. At least more so than a battery.
Thanks for the compliment though
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oh, now i got it. i can see you really put a lot of thought into your work, that's awesome. keep up the good work!
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