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New Standard Rifle for Trisagion Forces.

Tersanctus
28-11-2003, 04:16
M-25a2 Standard Infantry Rifle



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The OICW was developed at the beginning of the century to replace the modified M-16a2's as the primary urban/night assault rifles in the Tersanctan Army. The OICW is really two guns in one package attached to a high tech targeting computer. The bottom is a 5.56mm assault rifle, and the top fires 20mm HE assault cannon rounds. The 5.56mm is great for anti-personel, while the 20mm HE is good for flushing enemy forces out of reinforced positions, or attacking light vehicles. The targeting computer uses a sensors package that can pick up anything on the battlefield, even magically or technologically hidden items. The targeting computer incorporates a range-finder and automatically adjusts the sights to compensate for wind and range.
The plans for the OICW to replace the modified M-16's didn't work out and eventually the M-16/M203 combination was left in the field. When Colt replaced its aging M-16 fleet with the new M-23's, the M-22 was chosen to take the M-16/M203's spot, once again killing the idea of the OICW. But with the advent of magic and Ruthenium Polymers, combined with better snipers the need for a system that could detect invisible and/or partially hidden objects became apparent. Colt re-built the OICW to incorporate all of the latest technology to fill this role.

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Weight: 14 lbs (6.5 kg) empty.
Caliber: 5.56x45 mm NATO, and special 20 mm high-explosive air-bursting fragmentation.
Barrel Length: 5.56x45 mm NATO: 10 inches / 25.1 cm, 20 mm: 18 inches / 45.7 cm.
Overall Length: 40 inches (100 cm).
Action: Gas operated.
Mode of Fire: 5.56x45 mm NATO: Single shot & 2 round burst, 20 mm: Single shot only.
Range: 5.56x45 mm NATO: 1666 ft (500 m), 20 mm: 3333 ft (1000 m).
Magazine: 35 rounds of 5.56x45 mm NATO, and 8 rounds of 20 mm high-explosive.
Cost: $12,000.
Special: A completely modular weapon system with full optics, a video catpture and tracking device, and selectable fire control


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The weapon's most revolutionary feature is the way it uses a laser and computer to get at enemies who are concealed up to 3,280 feet away. That's nearly two-thirds of a mile and about twice the effective range of the M-16.

Infantry forces have long had weapons, including mortars, hand grenades and grenade-launchers, that spray shrapnel to get around barriers. But their targeting is not as precise as the new rifle's. And their shells explode when they strike the ground or solid objects, which means that much of the shrapnel can burrow harmlessly into the dirt.

To use the 20-millimeter gun, the soldier peers through a telescopic sight and lines up a red dot over the target. The rifle calculates the distance to the target, gauges the effect of air density and picks the point where the muzzle should aim.

This information is transmitted to an electronic fuse built into the shell. The gun displays a second red dot in the telescopic sight to show where the rifle should now be pointed. The soldier aims at the dot and pulls the trigger.

The 20-caliber shell will kill or seriously injure an enemy within about 17 feet of the burst, civilian weapon experts believe.

The rifle has been designed to use sensors that intensify low light and others that track heat so it can be used at night.

Based on preliminary tests, the Army believes that the rifle will give soldiers about five times the ability to incapacitate the enemy that they have now with the closest equivalent weapon, an M-16 mounted with an M-203 grenade launcher.

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