NationStates Jolt Archive

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#1
there is no such thing as an assualt weapon
there is an assualt rifle: it is as follows

It is a carbine sized individual weapon with provision to be fired from a shouldered position.

Barrel length is usually 400 mm to 500 mm (16” to 20”)

Is capable of selective fire.
Ex.:Full auto, semi auto, and burst firing modes.

Fires from a locked breech.

Utilizes an intermediate powered-cartridge.

Ammunition is supplied from a large capacity detachable box magazine.

OOC: Oh hell I'll bite

IC: In my nation a comprehensive list normally has more than one item on it.

I did ask for help didnt I?

well I spent an hour and a half on it yesterday but the damned site timed out on me and logged out and I lost everything this is a refusal to rewrite it again.:headbang:

"Umm...to what purpose would this comprehensive dictionary of weapon definitions serve?" Ambassador Seigfried asked hesitantly.

We'll list or standard types of terrestrial infantry weapons:

We use a basic gravitational field to accelerate particles gathered from ambient sources (e.g. air), compressed into a solid form, and propelled. This is used in rifles and handguns, as well as long range cannons, artillery, and even close combat weapons if the situation requires.

In addition to these, we also make use of high energy yield weapons that must be mounted for purposes of recoil. The idea here is not to bombard a city with simple gamma radiation. We prefer using a broad band microwave beam used to melt virtually any substance, and render the land useful once it has been eradicated of life and structure (which is far more preferable to sending infantry into a city where snipers and suicide bombers can exist).

Then we have weapons of mass destruction, which rely upon the same basic technology as our microwave transmitters, only they work by causing the neutrons of impacted atoms to disintegrate and form sub-atomic particles that chain react to nearby atoms. Indeed, this weapon could be used to convert an asteroid into hydrogen atoms... or used carefully, a continent into a hole to be filled by the ocean. Naturally the chain reaction has diminishing returns, or the same principle would prove fruitless as a bomb dropped on the other end of the world would eventually decay all the atoms of the world (not very profitable). Best of all, there's no real way to defend against this weapon, short of managing to shoot it out of the sky miles before it impacts (forcing the chain reaction to occur in the atmosphere instead of the earth).

We've found that bombs may be expensive, and powerful weapons and body armor and mechanized infantry are also expensive. However, these are a lot cheaper than funding a drawn out war, or worst still... jeopardizing the lives of our soldiers. Personally, I'd just assume all total wars were resolved with WOMD, but I believe many of my colleagues might find annihilating a nation for a simple act of war a bit tasteless and disturbing. We don't go to war easily as a result, and take diplomacy very seriously as a result.

Ah, you found Senator Sulla's secret stash of weapons catalogues, did you? Maybe your reps'd like to stroll over to International Incidents and check out the prices at the storefronts.

Providing a complete list of our nations weapons to the scoundrels, I mean fine delegates amongst us would be considered treasonous in my country. I have spies, I mean active legates and operatives that will pop in to this thread and keep files on each listing, uh I mean, take a noted interest in each listing.