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[OOC] Some arms my nation is developing

Trollhammeren
28-05-2005, 10:00
Trollhammeren has always been a sort of "why buy when you can build?" sort of a nation.
As every arms system currently made seems inadequate to us, we have set out to create our own.

It's called the Mjolnir weapons system, and it contains the following:

Infantry weapon
MPAW-05 "Stormhammer" MPAW (Multi Purpose Assault Weapon)
http://img290.echo.cx/img290/7240/stormhammer2dv.jpg
The Stormhammer was designed with maximum utility in mind. It can be equipped with a computer timed grenade launcher, iron or reflex sights, a biteswitch flashlight, scopes ranging from 4 to 40X magnification (Some models have an added IR function)

It can fire in fully automatic, 3 shot burst or semi-auto. It's chambered in 300 winchester magnum and features advanced and quite secret computer aided stabilization devices to keep down recoil and noise. It holds anywhere from a 10 shot magazine on the sniper versions to a 100 shot drum for supressive fire. It's barrel comes in lengths ranging from 12 inches all the way up to 25 for sniping versions. It can also fire a shotgun like projectile from it's grenade attachment, for close combat fighting. I'm sure that the retractable bayonet will also come in handy for that.
It has so little kick, that you can easily lay a tight pattern at 400 yards, and the gun is so quiet, it is superior to most silent rifles.

Next is the MG
HMG-05 "Warspike" Medium-Heavy Machine Gun
http://img274.echo.cx/img274/2838/warspike8xj.jpg
This gun is chambered in 300 WSM and .50 BMG or both(300WSM on top, 50BMG on bottom, or vice versa), can be either belt or drum fed, it's liquid cooled and can fire at up to 500 rounds a minute. It features an advanced computer stabilization system, like the Stormhammer, and can be equipped with a bipod for stability, or mounted onto a vehicle.

It's most unique feature, however, is it's double chamber design.
Basically, the warspike is 2 weapons combined into 1. Each barrel fires independantly of the other and each is loaded through a seperate mechanism.
This gives a number of advantages. Firstly, if one "half" of the gun was to fail, the gunner would still be able to fire his weapon from the other half.
Another advantage is different loading in each barrel. The top could be loaded with your standard lead bullet, whereas the bottom could be loaded up with incendary anti-tank rounds for engaging vehicles.
This means than 1 Warspike could do the same as 2 HMGs of any other nation.
While the 'Spike might be more expensive to produce, we think it's utility more than makes up for this.

Finally, the last component of our infantry system is the sidearm.
Unlike the previous weapons, we were able to find a pistol that met our requirements.
It is the FN FiveseveN. A 5.57 pistol, it has very low recoil, superb balistics, high ammunition capacity, excellent ergonomics and numerous other characteristics that make it ideal for military service.
I'm certian you all know what these look like, so a picture wont be nescesary.

The Stormhammer and Warspkie are expected to be in service, and up for sale, by 2008. The FiveseveN is currently being ordered for active duty ASAP.
Only allies will get production rights, and only friendlies will be allowed to buy. Any input about possible flaws, or just general questions, are welcome.