ICCD-Intracircumcordei
21-07-2007, 00:10
ICCD has decided to provide the Domestically produced IMH (mini handgun) to top graduates of the various schools. These pistols will be limited Edition. The Top Cadet Graduate of each Level Three Education Facility, The Top three Graduates of Each Class of the Infantry Schools, The Top 5 Graduates of Each Class of the Military Acadamy, and the Top 10 Graduates of each Class of the Imperial Military College. The Pistol will also be given to all individuals both Civilian and Military who enter the College of Arms.
This is the first steps in the program outlined last year to provide all Infantry School Graduates with a pocket pistol.
These pistols have been designed to be light easy to conceal able to attach supressor/silencers to, as well as LAM and other lighting, and modules.
The weapons are set to start rolling into awarding at the end of this years training. Full details have not been released to DNB news, but we have been told that each weapon will have a special commemorative serial and engraving of the reason and date of award. Ammunition used is the same as the IMP, the machine pistol used more commonly in ICCD.
When officials Dux Lennox Aldridge was asked the reason for the new small arm when the IMP already exists he stated, "After careful consideration we decided that the IMP and the IMH have to distinct usages. The IMP is designed for active security operations by members of ESSI and is an occupational weapon. We seek to provide lethality to individuals in state occupations to give them a weapon but not something that will be burdomsome or obvious. The IMP while it could fill this role is more than what we feel is needed. The IMH is both smaller and lighter and while it doesn't have high automatic capacities it does have the capacity to fire enough shots to take out minor threats. In instances where there is a highly armed assault occuring against a state employee we can only hope that our security forces in the area are aware of it. That is one of the reasons we have so many PDAphones out there, but in the time waiting for help, we'd like our best and brightest to be able to defend themselves or potentially stop the threat. In providing the first production run of these arms to the heads of the classes we hope to get constructive feedback, as well as potentially see positive results from deploying them. We would like to gear up production over the long run, so implementing the full plan isn't wholely viable right now, but we hope it will be in a few years time. This year we may not even make the full quota. We were actually planning to try to have a foreign model produced but to date that has fell through. We are still looking for foreign partners to keep our costs down as much as possible. What we are doing so far is setting up some small plants various classified locals that have an increase in labour availability."
In addition to the gun state officials said they would be fielding new state occupational uniform using resistive and moisture reducing fabrics, for casual work wear. These two moves are part of the states new safe work places policies, which was advised by the Imperial Diet and passed in the Imperial Senate, with no contest from the Emperor or Chancellor. The Primus was on record saying, "This can only be good for the safety of governmental workers, we look forward to the day when all levels of government and even the general public have easier access to these products on a mass produced level." While there is ample body armour in ICCD these new fabrics are 5th generation resisitive technologies, a result of a 40 year release program into body armours. A top research scientist working on the project stated, "a lot of countries still use kevlar, while it does work, there is a lot of failure in the material, and it is already countered. True it is better than nothing but our newer technologies which are less costly, far surpass kevlar in capacity to defend as well as the weight, and for about the same cost, and mass produced for domestic markets, even less."
State employees surveyed said they are excited about the new armoured clothing and are curious as to when they will start to get theirs. Tresury records seem to indicate that some personell have already been given theirs and that the clothing is being methodically fielded and tested, and it will continue that way, ongoing with small groups of personnel testing the equipment with slight modifications each production run.
This is the first steps in the program outlined last year to provide all Infantry School Graduates with a pocket pistol.
These pistols have been designed to be light easy to conceal able to attach supressor/silencers to, as well as LAM and other lighting, and modules.
The weapons are set to start rolling into awarding at the end of this years training. Full details have not been released to DNB news, but we have been told that each weapon will have a special commemorative serial and engraving of the reason and date of award. Ammunition used is the same as the IMP, the machine pistol used more commonly in ICCD.
When officials Dux Lennox Aldridge was asked the reason for the new small arm when the IMP already exists he stated, "After careful consideration we decided that the IMP and the IMH have to distinct usages. The IMP is designed for active security operations by members of ESSI and is an occupational weapon. We seek to provide lethality to individuals in state occupations to give them a weapon but not something that will be burdomsome or obvious. The IMP while it could fill this role is more than what we feel is needed. The IMH is both smaller and lighter and while it doesn't have high automatic capacities it does have the capacity to fire enough shots to take out minor threats. In instances where there is a highly armed assault occuring against a state employee we can only hope that our security forces in the area are aware of it. That is one of the reasons we have so many PDAphones out there, but in the time waiting for help, we'd like our best and brightest to be able to defend themselves or potentially stop the threat. In providing the first production run of these arms to the heads of the classes we hope to get constructive feedback, as well as potentially see positive results from deploying them. We would like to gear up production over the long run, so implementing the full plan isn't wholely viable right now, but we hope it will be in a few years time. This year we may not even make the full quota. We were actually planning to try to have a foreign model produced but to date that has fell through. We are still looking for foreign partners to keep our costs down as much as possible. What we are doing so far is setting up some small plants various classified locals that have an increase in labour availability."
In addition to the gun state officials said they would be fielding new state occupational uniform using resistive and moisture reducing fabrics, for casual work wear. These two moves are part of the states new safe work places policies, which was advised by the Imperial Diet and passed in the Imperial Senate, with no contest from the Emperor or Chancellor. The Primus was on record saying, "This can only be good for the safety of governmental workers, we look forward to the day when all levels of government and even the general public have easier access to these products on a mass produced level." While there is ample body armour in ICCD these new fabrics are 5th generation resisitive technologies, a result of a 40 year release program into body armours. A top research scientist working on the project stated, "a lot of countries still use kevlar, while it does work, there is a lot of failure in the material, and it is already countered. True it is better than nothing but our newer technologies which are less costly, far surpass kevlar in capacity to defend as well as the weight, and for about the same cost, and mass produced for domestic markets, even less."
State employees surveyed said they are excited about the new armoured clothing and are curious as to when they will start to get theirs. Tresury records seem to indicate that some personell have already been given theirs and that the clothing is being methodically fielded and tested, and it will continue that way, ongoing with small groups of personnel testing the equipment with slight modifications each production run.