Create or Design Your Own Fictional Assault Rifle

[lordroel]

Apr 1, 2022 19:00:47 GMT michelvan said:

He should do more of these.

[gillan1220]

Apr 1, 2022 19:00:47 GMT michelvan said:

Banned by Clinton in 1994.

[oscssw]

Having no real imagination I have two recommendations of tried"tried and true" ARs

1. Mobile Infantry Morita Assault Rifle




2. Colonial Marine M41A Pulse Rifle and flamethrower combo

www.imfdb.org/images/4/43/Aliens_Pulse3.jpg

BK BK

For what it is worth, Sigourney Weaver is my GoTo Gal when it comes to futuristic weapons.
If only my weapons Instructor GMC Baines, looked like her I'd be a lot better shot than I am.

[lordroel]

Apr 7, 2022 14:33:57 GMT oscssw said:

Having no real imagination I have two recommendations of tried"tried and true" ARs

1. Mobile Infantry Morita Assault Rifle




2. Colonial Marine M41A Pulse Rifle and flamethrower combo

www.imfdb.org/images/4/43/Aliens_Pulse3.jpg

BK BK

For what it is worth, Sigourney Weaver is my GoTo Gal when it comes to futuristic weapons.
If only my weapons Instructor GMC Baines, looked like her I'd be a lot better shot than I am.

Senior Chief, the US Army had almost one of those, it was called the XM29 OICW

[simon darkshade]

I've got a lot of designs, but they are textual descriptions of features and functions. I can't draw by hand, let alone with computer tools.

[oscssw]

Apr 8, 2022 4:41:32 GMT simon darkshade said:

I've got a lot of designs, but they are textual descriptions of features and functions. I can't draw by hand, let alone with computer tools.

I know what you mean Simon. 

Sucks being a neanderthal with minimal technical skills in the 21st century, doesn't it! 

[simon darkshade]

I wouldn't say my skills are minimal - I can use Office and have a passing understanding of code - but when it comes to drawing things using a mouse or what not, I've never been able to afford the software or had cause to dabble in it. I've never had cause to use a spreadsheet, though.

On the other hand, though, I look upon the youngsters these days as their thumbs fly around their phones like robots and know exactly what you mean. So I quite agree, overall.

[oscssw]

Apr 8, 2022 12:52:17 GMT simon darkshade said:

I wouldn't say my skills are minimal - I can use Office and have a passing understanding of code - but when it comes to drawing things using a mouse or what not, I've never been able to afford the software or had cause to dabble in it. I've never had cause to use a spreadsheet, though.

On the other hand, though, I look upon the youngsters these days as their thumbs fly around their phones like robots and know exactly what you mean. So I quite agree, overall.

I guess we will just have to "soldier On", doing the best we can with what we have.

[simon darkshade]

Quite true. Hopefully I can get a job before the point where technology leaves me completely behind.

To return to the topic of guns:

The L2A4 Enfield Assault Rifle had an interesting design history, coming from the Royal Small Arms Factory’s experiments of the late 1940s which trialed a number of innovative designs and calibres in their quest to develop an intermediate automatic rifle. One had even had the novel feature of the action and magazine being placed behind the trigger, but this had proved to be unsuited to some of the design criteria put in place by the Small Arms Panel. The new rifle accepted in 1947, the product of Belgian, Polish and English designers, drew on some of the features of the German Sturmgewehr-42 of wartime notoriety, chief of which was the employment of a lighter intermediate 0.256” round. This became the Rifle No. 12 or the L2A1, a decent weapon in its own right and popular among the Paras, Rangers, Commandos and Royal Marines whose requirements were well suited by the new rifle. It had built up a decent combat record through the 1950s, particularly in the jungle of Malaya and Borneo, and although it looked similar to Army’s main service rifle, it was lighter and smaller.

“A fine weapon.”

“A good gun indeed, Prime Minister. This newest variant has an increased effective range of 900 yards, a maximum rate of fire of 1000 rounds a minute and can carry the full range of additions that the L1 rifle can - under barrel grenade launcher, advanced darkvision sights, redbeam targeting and the new bayonet. It can also be adapted as a carbine and a belt fed light machine gun under the modular system.”

I have it down as looking like an FN CAL with an AR-15 barrel