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Reaper Sniper Rifle.
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The Allanean Arms Reaper class Sniper Rifle is a unique weapon - a final refinement of several 20th Century and 21st Century. The main improvement is the strange ridge-like projection above the rifle.That ridge contains a gauss-type accelerating device that speeds up every shot each time it is fire. The tube contains a high-capacity battery, enough for 200 shots out of that rifle. It shoots the early 21-st Century Era .408 caliber (http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn63-e.htm) round. That means that even if the Gauss device malfunctions, the rifle will still fire, and be accurate up to 1,700 meters on a man-sized target. With the Gauss device, this little baby is accurate up until 3,500 meters - over two miles of utter, unbridled firepower at your fingertips! It’s quite heavy - as heavy as a 20t Century .50-caliber rifle, a full 17 kilograms. The weight of the Gauss device on the barrel serves to alleviate the jerking of the weapon during recoil. The ammunition costs $40 to $60 per round, as it is precision handloaded by experts at the Jeremy Arms Factory, in Allanean Kentucky, Earth - they subcontract the project from us. The semi-automatic function of the rifle also serves to alleviate some of the monstrous kick [it feeds from a 10-round box mag]. It would be recommended if you installed a recoil brake on the rifle, for further increase of accuracy. Even without it, the rifle is capavle of accomplying 0.5 MOA shots at 1 klick - the proverbial achievement of Allanean Arms. As it stands, the rifle is handmade and costs $30,000, and is intended to use by sportsmen and elite units.

Legal Disclaimer: The Image is a CGI graphic of an Allanean Arms artist's impression, rather than a detailed view of the rifle

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The Empire would be interested in buying production rights for this superb weapon. It would be for our use only ofcourse if you agree. Please let us know the cost if the rights are available.

The Empire would be interested in buying production rights for this superb weapon. It would be for our use only ofcourse if you agree. Please let us know the cost if the rights are available.

We do not sell production rights at this stage.

Then, we would like to buy 10.000 Reaper Sniper Rifles and 10.000.000 rounds of ammunition. Thats if the rifle is available for export ofcourse. I believe the price would be 300 mil. $ for the rifles and 600 mil. $ for the ammo. Money will be wired upon confirmation.

You realise accelerating the top side of the round only would ruin the rifling in short order, giving you a single-figure barrel life, ya? Or that nobody in their right mind would go for $40 a round for anything but an ultra high-end competition rifle, especially when there's nothing special about the rounds fired from a Gauss weapon at all?

You realise accelerating the top side of the round only would ruin the rifling in short order, giving you a single-figure barrel life, ya?

I never said the unit only accelerates the top side of the round, did I?


Or that nobody in their right mind would go for $40 a round for anything but an ultra high-end competition rifle, especially when there's nothing special about the rounds fired from a Gauss weapon at all?

It's not a Gauss weapon. It's a gauss-assisted chemenergical weapons.

$40 is the cost of the RL .408 round.

$250 is the cost, IRL, for the Rauffus rifle rounds. At least that's what they told me when I went through my Armourer courses.

Calpe, order confirmed.

I never said the unit only accelerates the top side of the round, did I?

The image has no structures on its barrel that could accomodate magnet sets and power feeds on anything but the upper surface. Unless the image is inaccurate, we only have:

The main improvement is the strange ridge-like projection above the rifle.That ridge contains a gauss-type accelerating device that speeds up every shot each time it is fire.

'That ridge' is the only structure large enough able to contain any kind of Gauss device; the rest of the barrel is blank metal. Ideally, a Gauss weapon should have ring magnets that surround the barrel, not a magnet set on a single surface of the barrel.

It's not a Gauss weapon. It's a gauss-assisted chemenergical weapons.

Ah. So the B-36's extra engines weren't jets, they were jet-assisted propellor engines? It IS a Gauss weapon, just not a purebred one.

$40 is the cost of the RL .408 round.

Retail price to civilians who won't buy in bulk, maybe. I doubt very much that's the price you'd get from a wholesaler.

The image has no structures on its barrel that could accomodate magnet sets and power feeds on anything but the upper surface. Unless the image is inaccurate, we only have:



'That ridge' is the only structure large enough able to contain any kind of Gauss device; the rest of the barrel is blank metal. Ideally, a Gauss weapon should have ring magnets that surround the barrel, not a magnet set on a single surface of the barrel.


Depends how big the 'magnets' are; thin enough - say, wire - and they could be intigrated into the barrel itself(or you could 'missinterpret' that dark ring as being the end of a very-slightly thinkened section housing them and running most of the barrel's length), with the ridge containing capasitors, batteries, electronics, etc.

Depends how big the 'magnets' are; thin enough - say, wire - and they could be intigrated into the barrel itself(or you could 'missinterpret' that dark ring as being the end of a very-slightly thinkened section housing them and running most of the barrel's length), with the ridge containing capasitors, batteries, electronics, etc.

Well, if you didn't mind that such small magnets would do almost nothing [or be soul-destroyingly expensive or high futuretech when everyone had weapons that made this look like a popgun], be liable to burn out [necessitating the replacement of the whole barrel rather than a single magnet as in a series-magnet gun] would weaken the barrel and would make new barrels cost a fortune. 30k dollars hardly reflects such a complicated barrel design, either.

$40 is the cost of the RL .408 round. I believe that's per box of 20.

30k dollars hardly reflects such a complicated barrel design, either.

You realise that the most expensive military-used rifle, today, costs $9,000, is the Cheyenne Tactical [in .408], which coincidentally has only been ordered in a 25-rifle lot? The $21,000 difference is more than enough.

You realise that the most expensive military-used rifle, today, costs $9,000, is the Cheyenne Tactical [in .408], which coincidentally has only been ordered in a 25-rifle lot? The $21,000 difference is more than enough.

To offset a badly-engineered design saddled with an offensively weak barrel with a single-figure shots-per-replacement rate that would have almost no actual effect? Plus the power cell, capacitors and timing systems?

Actually, your statement, not mine.

What I see is a design that houses the gauss power system above the barrel, the barrel being obviously slightly thicker along the system's length - housing the magnets. Neither offensively weak or single-figure, there.

What I see is a design that houses the gauss power system above the barrel, the barrel being obviously slightly thicker along the system's length - housing the magnets. Neither offensively weak or single-figure, there.

Except that's the shadow of the system above the barrel, it's no thicker on one side of that ring than the other since looking at the bottom of the fixing ring the barrel is no thicker on one side than the other [unless the barrel is not circular and the bullet turns downhill and back after firing]. In any case, even if your observation were actually true this would still require the barrel to be thinner to accomodate the wires, and to be molded in two half-thickness pieces rather than one solid piece, meaning [dun dun DUUUN] that the barrel is either ridiculously thick [not supported by the image] or offensively weak.

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Okay, edited. :)

Ah. So the B-36's extra engines weren't jets, they were jet-assisted propellor engines? It IS a Gauss weapon, just not a purebred one.

Actually, they aren't jet engines. They are indeed 'jet-assisted propellor engines'. Thank you, have a nice day.

Actually, they aren't jet engines. They are indeed 'jet-assisted propellor engines'. Thank you, have a nice day.

Are you seriously trying to claim the General Electric J47 turbojet engine was a propellor?

Are you seriously trying to claim the General Electric J47 turbojet engine was a propellor?

Alas, I have erred. In my stupor due to my massive work schedule lately (thanks Uncle Sam) I mistook the B-36 for another plane...not even sure which one now...And seeing as I have erred, I shall retract my previous statement and put forth an apology if I have offended you. I should really check up on my branch of service's planes more...

'That ridge' is the only structure large enough able to contain any kind of Gauss device; the rest of the barrel is blank metal. Ideally, a Gauss weapon should have ring magnets that surround the barrel, not a magnet set on a single surface of the barrel.

OOC:Actually, that's incorrect. I've made a coilgun (or "gauss rifle"), and used magnet wire. Magnet wire is what you use. Just ring magnets are useless, you get pull, but a constant pull, from one point. Sets of coils made some ultra-thin wire would serve as seperate electromagnets. For everyone one of these you have, you would get a speed increase. It's what one would call a chemically-assisted multi-stage coilgun.