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The newly formed Glasbyd National Military Corporation announces its first product: the AR 1.

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Name: AR 1
Classification: Automatic Rifle
Company: Glasbyd National Military Corporation
Caliber: 7.62mm
Weight:
Empty: 3.4 lbs
Loaded: 4.4 lbs
Full Length: 29 in
Barrel Length: 16 in
Cyclic Rate of Fire: 800 rpm
Practical Rate of Fire:
Single Shots: 80-100 rpm
Bursts: 600 rpm
Range: 2,134 yds
Magazine Capacity: 30 rds
Cost: 5,000 credits ea.
Bulk Cost (100 guns): 500,000 credits
Ammunition Cost (per 10 magazines): $900

Leafanistan congratulates you on creating your own weapons and seeking a place in the international arms market. Truly a country comes of age when other's seek it for arms.

OOC: It seems that the bulk cost (500k per 100 examples) is the same per-rifle as the individual cost (5k per 1 example), so I would ask why it's differentiated as a bulk cost at all.
Other questions would be related to which 7.62mm round it is (7.62x51mm NATO? 7.62x54mm Russian? 7.62x39mm Russian? Other? There's a major difference, of course, and a logistics concern if you hope to export), and how exactly the remarkably low weight has been achieved: it is about the size of a typical military bullpup in length but weighs hardly half as much. On a related point, I wonder, is it conventional or bullpup or something else in layout? We're not even sure if it's an assault rifle or a carbine or even none-military. You know, just a bit of information like that would add much to it, if you ask me. I hope you read this as constructive rather than an attack!

OOC: It seems that the bulk cost (500k per 100 examples) is the same per-rifle as the individual cost (5k per 1 example), so I would ask why it's differentiated as a bulk cost at all.
Other questions would be related to which 7.62mm round it is (7.62x51mm NATO? 7.62x54mm Russian? 7.62x39mm Russian? Other? There's a major difference, of course, and a logistics concern if you hope to export), and how exactly the remarkably low weight has been achieved: it is about the size of a typical military bullpup in length but weighs hardly half as much. On a related point, I wonder, is it conventional or bullpup or something else in layout? We're not even sure if it's an assault rifle or a carbine or even none-military. You know, just a bit of information like that would add much to it, if you ask me. I hope you read this as constructive rather than an attack!

1) The bulk cost being differentiated (sp) as it is, is just to allow easier math equations for the buyer.

2) As for the 7.62mm question, I am trying to keep it as simple as possible for the less-learned. Some people don't like seeing figures up on the board that they don't know. But since you asked, I like to think of the AR 1 as a 7.63x39mm.

3) The remarkably low weight has been achieved by a new technique known only to GNMC scientists and engineers, in which the metal is heated quite differently than the traditional measures.

4) The layout is a bullpup.

5) The small tidbit of information I provided, under classification says Automatic Rifle. Most people in the weapons storefront business would automatically assume that means general military use, but able for civilian use as well (though I do not recommend it).

OOC: Hm, very good. I can see such a light rifle being difficult to control in automatic fire with a fairly large calibre like that, but could be wrong and even if not I suppose that's not unrealistic anyway. If it's a bullpup, I'd say you could probably get another inch or two of barrel length unless I'm much mistaken. At the moment you've only got an inch and a half barrel over an M4 carbine, but -for example- the FA-MAS (French bullpup) is less than an inch longer over all and yet has a barrel more than three inches longer.
Of course it's your rifle and there's nothing to say that it has to be arranged so as to allow an eighteen to twenty inch barrel, I suppose I'm just saying that it could given the bullpup arrangement and over-all length.
Anyway, I'll stop filling the place up with OOC, now. Erm. Enjoy NS :)

OOC:A weapon firing 7.62x39mm out of a 16 inch barrel isn't gonna get anywhere near 2,100 yards in range. More like 400.

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Please no more OOC, only bids from now on (besides bumps) :D.