/k/ - Weapons

Can we expect to have something like this but on personal weapons scale someday?

>that satisfying BRRRRRRT sound when the gun fires

>implying we'd ever see new innovation

>implying the only things wouldn't be copies of current guns but either lighter or with more rails

Sci-fi died and is replaced with stagnation.

>>482787

>implying that's a bad thing

Maintenance for these sci-fi weapons would suck

>>482791

>Have you seen that weird looking 'bow' thing Ogg was working on in the cave?

>Why would you even think that was needed? Is Ogg too much of a manlet to throw a javelin rather than making tiny javelins and building a fancy stringy thing to throw them for him?

>Can you think how much work it would take to maintain that nonsense?

>It'll never catch on though, javelins are here to stay.

>>482793

>>482813

These are just normal guns covered in worthless plastic.

>>482769

Some of the aftermarket stocks for that hi-point carbine are getting ridiculous.

>>482816

No shit Sherlock. But claiming that firearm design (both internal and external) will not change because you like what's in production now is as retarded as the cave man who was convinced that bows wouldn't amount to anything - that was what I was saying in the post you responded to.

What about something like a meltagun that uses Americium 242 to generate nuclear plasma?

>>482859

We already have them. Navy uses them on certain ships.

>>482861

Aren't they like the size of a car though? Or am I thinking of the navy's rail guns?

>>482880

Rail guns are like the size of an 18-wheeler, maybe two.

>>482877 (checked)

According to the fluff for the long las, a longer barrel helps keep the weapon cool. (which makes some sense) So if you took the accatran and gave it a longer barrel turning it into a standard length lasgun you could (at least according to fluff) make the beam stronger without risking overheating as with standard lasguns.

Now I wish I screencapped or copied down that big caseless ammo SMG spergout I did a few weeks ago, about a firearm I made up for a story I was writing, where went into pornographic detail about how it worked.

>>482821

Railguns are retarded due to a variety of flaws. Its difficult to put voids, fuel, or guidance in the shells. The capacitors are huge and vulnerable to electronic attack. The barrels have to be replaced every few shots. And the kinetic energy = TNT thing is a myth, or at least wildly misunderstood science.

Lasers are retarded due to two fundamental flaws, they dont work in all weather conditions, and ablative armor (cork) is dirt cheap.

The future consists of:

1. Plasma primers, which increase efficiency of deflagration.

2. Light gas combustion, which allows much faster speeds around 6km/s.

3.Scramjet rounds, which can sustain the 6km/s speed.

All three of these technologies can work together, and WILL be combined in time for the next world war.

As for the far flung future, we can expect space battles to be fought with nuclear voitenko compressors firing slugs of metals from the island of stability at 1000km/s.

>>482885

That's just the laser emitter. The actual laser tubes that feed into it at a lower intensity are below deck and require a powerplant that could feed a town.

>>482859

>>482787

I highly doubt that handheld combat laser guns will be a thing in the near future.

I can think of few technologies which could lead to weapons that could be similiar to our idealized laser guns, but it's just not the same nor military compatible.

There isn't a known chemical reaction which fuel would be so small and cheap that it could be fitted in a laser gun, and also you'd have to do some tesla tier physics wizardy to keep the laser from expanding over distance and behave as necessary for weaponization purposes. That's quite many years to r&d something which patents nobody will respect. This isn't exactly the victorian era. There are no gentlemen in this field anymore. If you come up with something extremely useful or profitable patent offices will wipe their asses with your request, pocket the money and hand over your plans to a local company. This is of course if your shit hasn't been stolen either by private or public sector before you've even filed for a patent.

So something like handheld combat laser rifles are a thing which only governments can develope, and most don't have the excess funding or interest towards it because the technology simply isn't there yet.

To put it in perspective, we're going to have hovering electric cars before laser raifus.

I want to see a scaled up kriss vector for 5.56/7.62 or at least a rifle that uses the recoil re-directing bolt system.

The R-201 Carbine from the titanfall game series comes to mind.

Dont tell me you have'nt thought about it at least once.

>>483049

According to one of those LSAT interviews at thefirearmblog.com those funky moving chamber designs already have a similar effect.

>>482884

>not ryza

KRAUT SPESS MAGIK

>>482884

>not superior Mars pattern

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>>483560

Why are you posting that piece of shit? It completely lacks any form of sights and its only features are an ammo counter and a flashlight you can't remove.

>>483560

>60 rounds of 7.62 in full auto in fucking bullpup

How the fuck did they manage to fit 60 rounds into that mag.

Also your shoulder is going to turn into goop firing 7.62 at full auto.

>>483562

> completely lacks any form of sights

Marines have HUD that helps them aim

>Also your shoulder is going to turn into goop firing 7.62 at full auto.

Thing has recoil absorption sytems

>>483566

>Shells are projectiles that contain high explosives

So you're saying it fires the shell.

>>483566

>caseless ammunition is called caseless because it doesn't have a case

So what?

>>483557

>It's a caseless submachine gun

From the post you replied to

>The gun seen here is a compact SMG version of the rifle equivalent.

>>482774

Already exists, some type of scaled down minigun.

>>483564

>Marines have HUD that helps them aim

Which is why it is garbage, considering the fact that you need a HUD seperate from the gun just to aim it because it is designed for looks and not actual use.

>>482859

Never, earth atmosphere is gonna fuck them raw.

Now, a laser-electric weapon - that should be perfectly fine. Use laser to create an ionized channel in the air and them make it like Zeus and zap a cap in a nigga.

>>482790

Is the Deus Ex pistol supposed to be a bullpup pistol with integral suppression?

>>483763

I believe so yes

>>483555

>caseless ammo meme

>flippable sight

>front view of the sight shows it's off center

>muh tacticool pistol grip and retractable stock

>giant ass magazine fit for some .308 gun for "caseless ammo" meme

This is autism and a very boring way of memeing future weapons. Chaser did a better job and most of the guns in that game were current year ones.

>pooinloo wymyn soldier

Well that explains why your gun idea's retarded.

>>483670

It's the future, you fucking schmuck. Every marine has the HUD required to use it. Even Bungie figured that out when designing it, and they're generally incompetent morons. It's also from a sci-fi universe where lizards with cow hooves, featherless flightless birds, autistic shit-gas-breathing midgets, bugs, angry monkeys, and scheming jews team up to commit mass suicide by firing memetic ring superweapons and get bested by an AI and a guy in a green suit.

>>483563

Double stacked wide mags. The cucking of it into a 32 rounder that sucked shit in 3 and Reach was done for muh multiplayer balancing, not "realism".

>>483849

>Accidentally break HUD or have it fried by some sort of EMP

>Now have a gun with no conceivable sights

Seriously, HUD or not it makes no sense not to put fucking iron sights on it. Don't defend Bungie's faggotry.

>>483871

That's what really shits me about "muh HUD" argument. Every single human weapon besides the service rifle has ironsights on it.

>>483872

Battle Rifle doesn't. It has a rail on to top for red dot or scope.

>>483871

I just noticed how fucking terrible that grip is though. Fine for a Spartan maybe, but that shit has be murder for a regular human.

>>483878

I had an idea. Make a version that's a Carbine Conversion for a Select Fire Pistol that shoots the 5x23mm caseless ammo. That'd be pretty neato.

>>483849

>It's the future, you fucking schmuck. Every marine has the HUD required to use it.

That is as awful excuse, which, especially if you assume this technology exists and works exactly as indended, does not fix anything. Here are a few reasons why a HUD would be awful:

>energy running out for the HUD, means that you are not only carrying a gun you can no longer aim properly in combat but you are also carrying all of the equipment necessary to make the HUD work

>any type of electronic equipment is going to be expensive, especially if it involves a combination of cameras, screens and augmented reality

>banging your head against something could potentially damage the electronics necessary for it to work

>there would also would be the need to charge/replace batteries for the HUD, which can become an issue when a couple hundred people start complaining about empty batteries but the number of batteries/facilities is limited

>all of this could have been avoided by adding a few small pieces of cheap plastic to the gun and having the HUD assist the user instead of having it serve as the only means by which to accurately aim your gun

>>483868

I think they use their implants to aim, not the helmet HUD

https://strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20170414.aspx

April 14, 2017: The U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army agree they may have finally found a caseless ammunition design that will work reliably in combat and be much (37 percent) lighter than conventional 5.56mm ammo.

Not much work was done on this caseless ammo in the 1990s but after 2001 American firms began working on upgrading and improving the Dynamit Nobel tech and field testing has shown that the new polymer case design is safe and reliable.

>>484027

They have two different types of ammunition they're using with the LSAT; one is a nonmetal, telescope case and the other is the case less one.

>>484078

It' been renamed to CTSAS, that is Cased Telescoped Small Arms Systems. Read these:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/11/interview-kori-phillips-program-officer-lsat-ctsas-part-1-program-history-ammunition-technical-discussion/

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/18/interview-kori-phillips-program-officer-lsat-ctsas-part-2-ammunition-technical-discussion-contd/

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/25/interview-kori-phillips-program-officer-lsat-ctsas-part-3-development-6-5mm-ct/

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Is there any possibility of melee weapons/bayonets coming back into fashion?

considering that presentation the DoD did on insurgencies in the mega-cities of the future, as well as the rapidly increasing amount of riot-like conflicts, is there any way shit like stun batons will become a thing? I mean technically melee never really stopped being used in combat, but will we ever see marines with carbon-alloy sabres?

>>484187

The best hand to hand combat weapon will always and forever be the handgun as you just need to point and shoot. No swings, so stabs, no physical exertion needed.

>>484187

Knives are tools, so there is no reason why there wouldn't be knives or machetes or hatchets in the future. But sabres? No, chainmail will be used when the threat of bein cut is greater then the injuries of being shot and future materials may even make maille of some sort that doesn't have that problem and be much more lightweight which may see future use.

>>484188

>The best hand to hand combat weapon will always and forever be the handgun as you just need to point and shoot.

A skilled knifer will kill you about around the same time you pulled the trigger if he's within 20-feet. If he's point blank he can cut your ligaments before you can even aim, let alone pull the gun out. And no, he won't charge blindly at you he;ll make himself appear harmless until he's right on top of you, that's how someone who is using a knife rolls.

>No swings, so stabs, no physical exertion needed.

It doesn't take much to cut someone hard, even a manlet can fuck you up with a knife.

>>484124

why not gundanium?

http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundanium_Alloy

>>484124

Use helium based cooling. But really heat is an issue for space weapons since heat can only radiate away.

>>484226

Because Gundanium only exists in After Colony and not the Universal Century.

>>484195

>A skilled knifer will kill you about around the same time you pulled the trigger if he's within 20-feet. If he's point blank he can cut your ligaments before you can even aim, let alone pull the gun out. And no, he won't charge blindly at you he;ll make himself appear harmless until he's right on top of you, that's how someone who is using a knife rolls.

pshh, nothin personel, kid

>>484195

Oh yeah I forgot war is where everyone walks around in civilian clothing with their guns holstered except for the special elite troopers that get to run around with knives out. Let me ask you this, at what distance does a holstered knife beat a drawn gun? Fucking leaf

>>484195

If you have any decent skill with a handgun, you should be able to have your gun out and two rounds through a target within a second. So there you are with your "nothin personell kid" knife skills and two .45 acp sized holes in your chest.

>>484195

They even did this shit on mythbusters, inside 20 feet you have an advantage against relatively unskilled people with handguns. Have someone who knows what they are doing, and then you need to be inside 8-10 feet. And then this all relies on the guy being alone. Guy with a handgun can drop multiple people in quick succesion, meanwhile you stab one guy and his buddy 10 feet away magdumps into your chest cavity.

>>484241

>>484242

Leafing aside he's partially right. One of my friend's Dad is a cop. He got stabbed because a guy charged him with a screwdriver before he could pull on him. People looking to close the distance fast can muster surprising speed.

>>484319

No, the question was in a fair fight on equal footing what is a superior close combat weapon. And that is the hand gun. There is NO distance a knife will beat drawn gun held by someone of equal skill because the knife is an inferior weapon. You could probably sneak up and take an unsuspecting guy holding a nuclear recoiless rifle down with a sucker punch but that doesn't make your fist a superior weapon. You won because you had the advantage of being the aggressor along with the element of surprise. Just like how two men of equal skill with guns will always have the one with the gun already drawn winning a fight.

>>484287

Not enough

>>484287

I remember a few thousand people being executed with the shovels in Chechnya.

In USSR and Russia the shovel is considered a close combat weapon and there is a training to use it like an axe or throw it.

>>484331

>You won because you had the advantage of being the aggressor along with the element of surprise.

FYI this is how pretty much what all knifers do, as a rule. If the knife is drawn at a distance it's because they're doing a threat display, this "fair fight" nonsense can get fucked. Nobody fights fair, if they are it's because you were smart and brought your buddies with you to witness a challenge to a fist fight.

>>484331

>fair fight

Nobody with a knife is looking for a fair-fight you retarded fuck. The advantage lf knives has always been conceability. In fact, in the Canadian's scenario the fight is deliberately dirty.

>>484621

IS THAT A KEL TEC RDB?

>>484621

my shoulder hurts looking at that, lol

>>483555

>Round misfires

>Have to field strip weapon

>Want to unload weapon

>Have to field strip weapon

>>482877

but don't they call it the flash bulb?

>>484775

Flash Light, actually. It's a reference to how it's one of the weakest weapons in the setting, but that's only compared to things like machine guns, rapid fire gyrojets, and disintegrating rayguns. In terms of simple logistics, it's the best weapon.

>>484199

>G11

>Let's make a gun that looks like a fucking brick with a scope on top!

>>484287

We used them to chop down trees in basic.

Klapspaten is fun.

>>483876

look at the way your hand folds. The grip forces your hand to get as close to the top as possible, making recoil easier to manage. it looks retarded, but it would work, just like a thumb hole stock.

>>483897

>BUIS not fibreoptic BU red dot

Do you even sci fi?

>>484813

Pretty much, the funny thing is if you look at the way its effects are portrayed in the setting it seems to be about on a par with a modern .50 BMG rifle, blowing limbs off with one hit sort of stuff. Then again when you look at the sort of things they're fighting a lot of them probably wouldn't be slowed down by much less than a burst from a 30mm cannon right to the skull.

But yeah, a service rifle with effectively 0 moving parts, where the magazines can be recharged by warming them up in a fire or even just leaving them in the sunlight for a while, which can be mass produced in quantities of a few million per shift (at a smaller factory), and where you don't need to bother with marksmanship training much beyond "put the red dot in the middle of the sight on top of the target and squeeze the trigger". It's a pretty awesome and practical piece of kit.

>>484187

As with any discussion of futuretech, it depends what theater of combat and what kind of enemy in particular. Durka durkas? Probably not, you need to worry more about not being exploded than anything else. So, range and information are more important.

Riot/civil war, though? Yeah, I could totally see Roman-style shieldwalls with taser sabres becoming a thing.

Like swords back then, though, they still wouldn't be the primary weapon- just a backup for close quarters.

>>482956

Dude, please tell me this beauty is either legal to own in Commiefornia or will be legal to own in Commiefornia!! I must have it!!

>>486401

Crossbows existed pre-Middle ages too though. The Greeks of the Classical period had the gastrophetes, and in China they had the chu-no-ku. And if you take rock paintings at their word, apparently the Pictish got their hands on crossbows brought over by the Romans.

>>486416

Quick correction, should be gastraphetes and chu-ko-nu

>>482895

>Railguns are retarded due to a variety of flaws.

> The capacitors are huge and vulnerable to electronic attack.

Caps (and the rest of working circuits) fit for a railgun by definition are made for currents that produce magnetic fields exerting enough pressure for artillery use.

Any lesser surges are… minor fluctuations.

The rest is true, though.

Obviously, railguns are not fit for long-range artillery or sniping because they'd degrade enough to noticeably change characteristics while you'd try to sight them.

This still leaves relatively short range anti-armor (kinetic penetrators don't need fancy-shmancy electronics) and MG (remember those designs with easy-to-swap barrels?) niches.

>>486416

>chu-no-ku

>The weapon was extremely easy to manufacture and use, and, in the hands of a trained soldier, could easily launch ten bolts in fifteen seconds.[1]

>Non-recurved versions of the repeating crossbow were often used for home defense.

Ridiculous. Why would a civilian need a crossbow that can shoot that fast, or have such a large magazine? We need to ban high-capacity assault crossbows. When the laws were written they didn't know we would have weapons this deadly.

>>484230

UC did have Lunar Titanium though. First episode of 0079 has the Gundam eat a burst of 120mm and not even give a damn.

>>490416

To be fair, chu-ko-nu were far weaker compared to non-repeating designs. They were basically used by massed peasant conscripts against unarmored barbarians whose extent of their training was "Take this thing, point it at those screaming charging foreigner hordes, and work this lever until things stop shooting out." Against armored opponents, they were virtually useless except for maybe momentarily slowing them down as they covered their faces from the shower of bolts since many asian helms worn by footsoldiers of the period did not have full face cover. It's unsurprising they would be used for home defense, since thieves and robbers generally aren't wearing armor or carrying shields.

>>490434

>To be fair, chu-ko-nu were far weaker compared to non-repeating designs

And 5.56 is weaker than .303, but the people I was mocking still go after AR-15s more than Enfields.

>>483876

California compliant.

>>490439

>using second person when describing Chinese culture to a Leaf

I almost missed that.

I've been paying so much attention to the poor Syrian refugees I nearly forgot about the West Coast's effort to atone for the genocidal Head Tax.

>>490443

Good point, don't know how I missed that obvious analogy. I need more sleep.

>>484925

Your point being.

>>482859

Smoke is too easy to make.

MAYBE in vacuum.

But then, imagine trying to shoot laser through a cloud of confetti sized retroflectors.

Probably won't be good enough to seriously harm the shooter - but still more than enough to permanently fuck up vision (whether eyes or camera).

Thin foil on plastic is cheap.

>>491206

>>491206

laser efficiency is also 20%

meaning 80% of the input power is waste heat….

>>491221

Except that the politicians looking through the proposal for replacing all US ballistic small arms with the Freedom-Ray A1: pulsed beam rifle (at only $5'000 per unit!) won't be looking at the efficiency stats, or the battery life, or even the weight, ergonomics, or reliability data. They'll be looking at the very generous 'political donation', how many jobs the new factory will bring into their constituency, and how they want to go on the news and talk about the totally awesome new 10kg death rays that they're buying for US soldiers (and police, but keep that last one quiet).

>>491206

Sandcasters don't make sense. There's no reason to use a cloud of reflective material compared to an equal mass of solid armor. Actually there's a lot of reasons why you'd prefer solid armor, like that it isn't wasted by expanding everywhere.

>>484621

Are thumbhole stocks as good as pistol grips for handling recoil?

>>494752

They can be better, but they're far less of a 'one size fits all' and more dependent on the individual/being fitted to the individual.

>>494756

any advice or resources on how to determine a good fit for a thumbhole stock? Like if I'm picking one up and handling it, how do I know its the right shape/dimensions?

>>491206

Lasers lose their penetrative effectiveness very quickly and thick solid absorbent materials are a good defense against them in space. Since the only time you'd use a laser rifle is man vs man, you'd be better off with a gun in all cases even in cases where damaging equipment is a concern because a laser powerful enough to cut through you is also going to be able to damage exposed electronics just by firing the thing nearby. Depending on what type of laser we're talking here the flash from firing the laser itself is sufficient to permanently burn out a person's eyes.

Lasers are pretty much ship and space station only tier weapons, since lasers effective enough to kill you dead in a light second are going to be pretty big.

>>484408

Is the safety still at the back? How are you supposed to even quickly flip it then if you have to basically stick your hand in your armpit?

>>482884

>>483053

>>483119

Not Accatran pattern MkIV

Not Fractrix pattern assault laser

>>483119

>not superior Mars pattern

Mars pattern are obsolete pre-crusade era, the ones the not arabs on camels are using, you toaster fucker.

(Adeptus Mechanicus forces are using galvanic weapons, not laser weapons except handcrafted "bolt" las-locks for precision and power. Laser is for non-tentacled peasants.)

>>482787

this is partially true. As far as firearms have come, we're nearing the end of the tech tree. Everything else from this point out will be just slight improvements on what we have. That is, until something completely different appears and we'll have a whole new tech tree to unlock, so to speak

e.g. flintlock technology remained relatively similar for 300 years. It wasn't until cartridges were developed, a whole new chain of inventions could be made

If someone could give me Quake 3's LG, I could die happy.

>>482769

>>490465

also they tended smear the boltheads with poison commonly used to dispose of tigers,

so you are walking into a hailstorm of toxic crossbow bolts, but do not worry your armour will keep most of them out of your flesh,,,

>>497436

The Ming Dynasty text says, "The Zhuge Nu is a handy little weapon that even the Confucian scholar (i.e. a weakling) or palace women can use in self-defence. It fires weakly so you have to tip the darts with poison. Once the darts are tipped with 'tiger-killing poison', you can fire it at a horse or a man and as long as you draw blood, your adversary will die immediately. The draw-back to the weapon is its very limited range."

>>497452

Medieval Europeans also did things like poison water sources on enemy territory or hurl rotting carcasses into strongholds to infect defenders on sieges, so there's not exactly a massive gap there.

>>482769

>scope brand scope in the third pic

That will never die.

>>482769

>energy weapons

The only limiting factor on energy weapons is battery tech. When batteries become lighter than ammo, we will have energy weapons.

>>484275

Its called the 25 feet rule. Within 25 feet the average officer does not have the time to draw from his holster and fire if the assailant is running at them.

>>497491

>a great group of men, often times led by actual psychopaths, comes together to commit acts of violence, and they they are even willing to start plagues in enemy towns

VS

>a noblewoman hears something in the darkness of her home and hurls a dozen poisoned darts to that direction

I'm not against defending one's own person and property, but even I'd rather not use poison for that if simple physical violence is sufficient. Especially if you consider that said poison might have had somehow random and unreliable effects, depending on how it was stored and prepared.

>>497510

Capacitors are much more of a problem.

With batteries there are variants - fuel cells, etc. And they don't matter that much for anything vehicle-mounted.

But there's no way around the pulse power part.

>>497543

A poisoned bolt is more effective at incapacitating an enemy than a regular one, and the poisons used weren't going to be aerosols or something that could spread without directly ingesting it or rubbing it onto an open wound. And regardless of whether it's an enemy soldier or an assassin sent by a rival family, they're both out to kill you and you need to defend yourself as well as you can. Might as well argue that because hollowpoints inflict more tissue damage and shrapnel on enemies and normal bullets can stop a thief anyways, and the military doesn't use them, anyone who uses HPs are "soulless things […] that would genocide themselves."

>>500112

There is though. Faraday motors. It's basically a conductive flywheel sandwitched between permanent magnets (can be attached directly to the flywheel to contribute to its momentum). The defining feature of this design is ability to quickly dump absolute fuckloads of direct current with hardly any internal resistance, and ability to store very large amounts of energy for its weight.

>>484395

that mag looks so shitty in there

>>484663

I dig it

>>482790

>>483572

>>484199

These pistols don't have a thermal clip.

I remember when someone on /k/ called me stupid for saying we'll eventually do away with iron sights in exchange for a digital HUD.

>>502106

You are stupid.

>>497543

>>500115

All solutions are mostly limited to their niches.

Historically, weapons that were poisoned as SOP were:

A) Blowguns and tiny bows (for use in dense forest), because they're too weak to do much on their own. Poisons have to be fast-acting (paralytic neurotoxins or cardiotoxins), because otherwise they'd be useless.

B) Decent ranged weapons, because this makes a glancing wound a mission kill, and there's time for it to kick in. Poisons are usually are chosen not too strong (often haemotoxins of vipers), in part because storage is more important, in part because there's always place for "oops!".

Used to be popular vs. boars (even Heracles wasn't above this) - they are hard to kill and can mess you up even when already closer to dead than alive.

Of the famous cases, John II Komnenos was knocked onto his quiver (on a boar hunt), survived the poison, but died of necrosis and/or sepsis later, Temujin caught a poisoned arrow in the neck (in a war), but was given first aid by his pal and recovered.

Poisoned close combat weapons were rare, because it's impractical - either useless (other than satisfaction that you took the other guy with you), dangerous to the user, ridden with logistical problems, or all 3.

>>506835

That second pic. Why does it make me so hard?

>>508869

Because it looks like a gun that a Mr. Rogers lookalike would get from the hardware store during the 60s to fight the commies in a parallel universe version of the USA.

>>508878

>Mr Rogers lookalike

I'm assuming that's a reference Burgers will get?

Other than that it's a beautiful piece of engineering, and just impractical enough to make me jealous and hard.

>>500117

That's true. But there are downsides to having more moving parts.

Those motors usually are placed at some distance from the rest of equipment, so that whatever was powered by the pulse is already done by the time vibrations reach something that should not be moved.

Also, an extra gyroscope.

This adds limitations, too.

>>513252

integrated suppressors seem to be coming into vogue. Interesting considering they were invented like 40 years ago

Calico is the Future.

The Future is Calico.

>>483683

I like it, but wouldn't atmosphere still disperse the laser that creates the ionised air? then you'd just have a bunch of patches of it and the electricity kinda goes everywhere (I'm no scientist, just going off of shit i'm learning from this thread)

>>518700

I don't remember how far it got, but I know there was an experiment or at least an idea for a hypersonic high-altitude plane that skipped over the atmosphere while lasing a target on the surface, which cause the plasma sheathe its friction produced to channel down the ionized path, effectively provoking and aiming a lightning strike.

>>483555

>ex-military gril

Into the trash it goes

>>521041

>Grenade launcher with rifle attachment

This is the MX1 or something right? I remember it from Gohst Recon 2 for Original Xbox

>>518595

Calico was always destined to be the future of the past, it is meant for dank retrofuturism and not actually being futuristic. Still wish production would start back up again but the AWB really burned them.

>>521135

>pic

God damn WWI Germany was advanced: under barrel grenade launchers, quick detach slings, machine pistols.

>XM25, the final devolution of the grenade launcher, and the best argument for rifle grenades

I mean a normal under barrel grenade launcher works too but why do that when you can make an underbarrel AR for your grenade launcher.