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Armacorp ADEC Light Machinegun
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Overview
The ADEC light machinegun was developed in tandem with the AVIR (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=550850) family of rifles to supplement them as squad and platoon-level light machineguns. The requirements set forth for the ADEC were fairly loose: the Doomani and Agrandan armies required an extremely reliable light machinegun chambered in the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge, which fully describes the ADEC in the loosest terms possible. Aside from being in the same caliber, however, the ADEC and AVIR are very, very different weapons. Internally, the ADEC uses a totally different design than the AVIR, and externally the differences are quite obvious. While the AVIR was built from the ground up as an assault rifle (with the AVIR IAR offered as a light machinegun), the ADEC was built from the ground up as a pure bred light machinegun.
The same design bureau that brought the world AVIR was also behind the ADEC. Armacorp is a jointly owned design bureau, with SPMC and DDI owning roughly 80% of the stock, the rest being publicly traded. Armacorp’s employees are technically employees of their parent companies, SPMC and DDI, although for the most part they work completely independently of these corporations. Armacorp’s approach to firearms design is different from both DDI and SPMC, as can be noted by the types of firearms they have been coming out with. The ADEC is no exception: internally, it bears virtually no correlation to any previous DDI or SPMC light machinegun, although in many areas it draws on the experience of both companies to breed what Armacorp and indeed, many members of the Doomani Exercitus and Imperial Guard as well as the Agrandan Army to be the perfect light machinegun. It brings to the infantry squad a tool capable of delivering an unparalleled torrent of suppressive fire, while still being light enough to be lugged around alongside soldiers carrying the AVIR. With many modern battlefields taking place in urban environments, Armacorp was also careful to design the ADEC to be capable of being easily used in such an environment: the ADEC gunner is fully capable of going into a building alongside with AVIR-wielding riflemen and using his beast of a weapon to clear the building of enemy soldiers. In fact, the amount of firepower the ADEC brings to bear in such a situation makes it almost ideal.
Technical Description
The ADEC light machinegun is a belt-fed, roller delayed blowback operated, fully automatic forced air cooled weapon fired from the open bolt, chambered for the popular 6.7x35mm cartridge. The ADEC features predominantly stamped steel construction in the reciever; the stock, which maintains the weapon's buffer group and a compartment for a cleaning kit, is constructed of high-strength, light-weight polymer and is collapsable as well as folding. This allows for the ADEC's stock to be adjusted for shooters wearing body armor and also makes it especially suitable for troops operating out of the confines of armored vehicles, or paratroopers. The ADEC's heatshield, on the other hand, in constructed of light weight aluminum. The ADEC's heatshield is vented to allow more effecient cooling of the barrel as well as maintaing four accessory rails (a top rail runs the entire length of the weapon including the feed tray, allowing for a wide variety of optics to be utilized with the ADEC). More importantly, perhaps, the heatshield portion of the ADEC maintain's the weapon's integral bipod. The bipod itself is of a telescoping design, allowing for easy use of a foregrip in combination with the bottom rail when the bipod is folded. The bipod also features inbuilt springs for superior shock absorbtion. The ADEC features folding iron sights (as the weapon's design team had the use of optics specifically in mind), front post and rear ladder aperture sights, with settings going as far as 1,200m on the rear sight. A carry handle is also included with the weapon, an important feature of any machinegun. The fire selector switch (which has only two settings, 'SAFE' and 'FIRE') is of the switch variety, and is located just above the trigger on the lefthand side of the reciever, allowing for the shooter to toggle the fire selector switch without having to take his hand off of the trigger. Overall, the ADEC is a fairly light weapon courtesy of its simple roller delayed blowback design, although it is a bit heavier than some of its cousins (i.e. the Ameli light machinegun, which weighs a good two pounds less) due to the use of a larger, heavier caliber and the forced air cooling jacketed barrel. An interface beneath the reciever allows for an optional tripod to be used, allowing the weapon to act as a platoon or higher level support weapon, or for the ADEC to be fitted to vehicle mounts.
Naturally, the obscenely high volume of fire generated by the ADEC does bring about various concerns, most notably those of recoil and accuracy. Like any proper machinegun, the ADEC would ideally be fired from a supported position utilizing the weapon's bipod, in which case the high rate of fire of the weapon would be far more managable. However, lessons drawn from modern battles show that more often than not, the squad's automatic rifleman may find himself facing down opponents from close range in the case of house to house fighting, in which case he will not have the time needed to fire his weapon from a supported position. Armacorp's engineers were not oblivious to this fact and, working along side experienced Doomani and Agrandan infantrymen, built the weapon around the requirements of the modern automatic rifleman in this respect. To compensate for recoil and muzzle climb, a number of mechanisms are used to counteract these forces. First and foremost among these is inherent in the ADEC's design: like previous Doomani light machineguns, most notably the MLM, the ADEC's action makes use of the constant recoil principle. Using this mechanism, the ADEC's bolt has a fairly long way to travel to the rear of the reciever and the strength of the recoil spring has been carefully calculated, and as a result, the bolt is allowed to gradually slow down and not impact the rear of the reciever (which is also fitted with a polymer recoil buffer) at a very high speed, thus drastically reducing recoil. Compared to other light machineguns of similar caliber, the recoil of this weapon is laughable at best. This aspect of the ADEC is in turn combined with the addition of an advanced flash-suppressing muzzle brake fitted to the weapon's threaded muzzle, which serves to further reduce recoil by a large degree at the cost of making the weapon generate far more noise volume than it otherwise would have. A normal flash suppressor is also available should the customer prefer that in place of the muzzle brake. The weapons folding/collapsable stock also maintains a buffer spring, which further cusions the shooter from recoil and creates an overall more accurate platform. All of these aspects combined with the sheer weight of the weapon when loaded serve to make it more than managable while crouched or even standing, despite its extremely high rate of fire. The other major problem of a machinegun with an excessivly high rate of fire is one that tends to be difficult to solve: wear on the barrel. While many weapons counteract this by simply offering a quick change barrel assembly, this would still require the crew to cease fire in order to swap out a spent barrel for a fresh one when required. Armacorp's engineers again looked back to earlier DDI designs for their solution to this problem, which was especially prevelant in the ADEC. Their solution was to utilize a forced air cooling barrel, which features radial cooling ribs and a jacket, similar to that utilized on the MLM and 4M1 machineguns. However, the far higher rate of fire seen on the ADEC does result in somewhat less barrel life than on either of these two weapons, which boast the ability to fire six-hundred fifty rounds continuosly without any danger to the barrel. However, the ADEC's barrel is still extremely impressive, allowing for the shooter to fire a full five-hundred rounds continously without any danger to the barrel. Like most other machineguns, the ADEC also features a quick change assembly for the barrel in the event that it does overheat. Despite these assurances, Armacorp still offers a heavier bolt for sale which cuts the ADEC's rate of fire to 900 rounds per minute, although a seperate recoil spring must be used with this bolt in order for the constant recoil action to function properly.
A key component of the ADEC's design is its cartridge, the 6.7x35mm CTA round which originally made its debut with the popular AVIR assault rifle the ADEC was designed to supplement. Use of this round allows total ammunition commonality within an infantry squad or platoon while at the same time offering the ADEC a relatively low impulse but high powered cartridge. In its standard load, the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge puts a 110 grain projectile downrange at velocities exceeding 2,700 feet per second out of an 18" barrel, hitting its target with over 1,780 foot pounds of energy. Accuracy and lethality performance at range is also excellent thanks to the relatively heavy round. A key advantage of the 6.7x35mm round is its unusual design: it is a cased telescoping round, meaning that the actual projectile is set within the case, with the powder all around it. This creates a much shorter, more volume effecient round, one that is ideal for usage with the ADEC light machinegun in that it does not require a terribly long reciever in order for the constant recoil action to function properly in addition to allowing a 300-round combat box to be easily utilized alongside the weapon, granting the infantry squad an excellent tool for sustained fire. In addition, the casing is constructed of composite material, creating a round that is in effect 40% lighter than a round of comparable power with a brass case. The current primary export load for the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge is the APHP (armor piercing hollowpoint). This particular round features a steel core surrounded by a lead inner jacket and copper outer jacket, the tip of the projectile being designed on the basis of a hollowpoint with the tip of the steel core protruding outwards. When impacting a target, such as a person, the jacket expands outwards, while the steel core continues through into the target, hopefully yawing and causing even more damage. This allows for both a large entry wound and the possibility of the steel core causing even more internal damage to the target. When used against armored targets, the jackets would essentially flatten against the target while the narrower steel core would be able to follow through, hopefully penetrating the armor. The result is a round that is extremely lethal against unarmored targets while still being capable of penetrating armor. This is only one of many loads for the versitile 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge, others including jacketed hollowpoint (JHP), full metal jacket (FMJ), frangible (FG), armor piercing (AP), and a variety of tracer rounds. There are not currently any plans for any versions of the ADEC in other calibers, although it should be noted that the design, unlike the AVIR, is not reliant on the use of a CTA cartridge, and as a result Armacorp has admitted that it should be possible to offer the ADEC in other calibers should the need arise.
Technical Specifications
Type- Light Machinegun
Caliber- 6.7x35mm CTA
Muzzle Velocity- 2,750 fps
Operation- Roller delayed blowback
Barrel Length- 18"
Overall Length-
Stock fully extended- 42"
Stock fully collapsed- 38"
Stock folded- 34"
Weight-
Unloaded- 14.7lb
Loaded- 23.5lb
Feed- 300 round disintegrating link belt, combat box
Effective Range- 1000m
Rifling- 4 grooves, 1:10 right hand
Rate of Fire- 1200 rounds per minute
Fire Modes- Fully automatic only
Export Cost- $2500
ADEC-G and ADEC-V Medium Machinegun
The ADEC-G is a heavier versions of the ADEC light machinegun designed to be deployed as a crew-served weapon at the platoon and company levels with a bipod or tripod, and lacks the more complex folding/collapsable stock of the lighter ADEC, replacing it instead with a simpler fixed stock. The ADEC-V is a variant of the ADEC-G commonly employed on vehicles as a defensive weapon and employs a spade grip in place of the pistol grip. These variants have been chambered for the heavier 7x50mm CTA cartridge, which boasts superior range and stopping power over the 6.7x35mm CTA round, making the weapon far more suited for the medium machinegun role.
Technical Specifications
Type- Light Machinegun
Caliber- 7x50mm CTA
Muzzle Velocity- 2,850 fps
Operation- Roller delayed blowback
Barrel Length- 21"
Overall Length- 45"
Weight-
Unloaded- 18.7lb
Loaded- 29.5lb
Feed- 200 round disintegrating link belt, combat box
Effective Range- 1,200m
Rifling- 4 grooves, 1:11 right hand
Rate of Fire- 1000 rounds per minute
Fire Modes- Fully automatic only
Export Cost- $2900
Armacorp will henceforth be offering one thousand round steel ammo cans of 6.7x35mm CTA APHP ammunition at a cost of $300 each, including shipping. Production rights for the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge are available for a nominal cost of $50,000,000.
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Overview
The ADEC light machinegun was developed in tandem with the AVIR (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=550850) family of rifles to supplement them as squad and platoon-level light machineguns. The requirements set forth for the ADEC were fairly loose: the Doomani and Agrandan armies required an extremely reliable light machinegun chambered in the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge, which fully describes the ADEC in the loosest terms possible. Aside from being in the same caliber, however, the ADEC and AVIR are very, very different weapons. Internally, the ADEC uses a totally different design than the AVIR, and externally the differences are quite obvious. While the AVIR was built from the ground up as an assault rifle (with the AVIR IAR offered as a light machinegun), the ADEC was built from the ground up as a pure bred light machinegun.
The same design bureau that brought the world AVIR was also behind the ADEC. Armacorp is a jointly owned design bureau, with SPMC and DDI owning roughly 80% of the stock, the rest being publicly traded. Armacorp’s employees are technically employees of their parent companies, SPMC and DDI, although for the most part they work completely independently of these corporations. Armacorp’s approach to firearms design is different from both DDI and SPMC, as can be noted by the types of firearms they have been coming out with. The ADEC is no exception: internally, it bears virtually no correlation to any previous DDI or SPMC light machinegun, although in many areas it draws on the experience of both companies to breed what Armacorp and indeed, many members of the Doomani Exercitus and Imperial Guard as well as the Agrandan Army to be the perfect light machinegun. It brings to the infantry squad a tool capable of delivering an unparalleled torrent of suppressive fire, while still being light enough to be lugged around alongside soldiers carrying the AVIR. With many modern battlefields taking place in urban environments, Armacorp was also careful to design the ADEC to be capable of being easily used in such an environment: the ADEC gunner is fully capable of going into a building alongside with AVIR-wielding riflemen and using his beast of a weapon to clear the building of enemy soldiers. In fact, the amount of firepower the ADEC brings to bear in such a situation makes it almost ideal.
Technical Description
The ADEC light machinegun is a belt-fed, roller delayed blowback operated, fully automatic forced air cooled weapon fired from the open bolt, chambered for the popular 6.7x35mm cartridge. The ADEC features predominantly stamped steel construction in the reciever; the stock, which maintains the weapon's buffer group and a compartment for a cleaning kit, is constructed of high-strength, light-weight polymer and is collapsable as well as folding. This allows for the ADEC's stock to be adjusted for shooters wearing body armor and also makes it especially suitable for troops operating out of the confines of armored vehicles, or paratroopers. The ADEC's heatshield, on the other hand, in constructed of light weight aluminum. The ADEC's heatshield is vented to allow more effecient cooling of the barrel as well as maintaing four accessory rails (a top rail runs the entire length of the weapon including the feed tray, allowing for a wide variety of optics to be utilized with the ADEC). More importantly, perhaps, the heatshield portion of the ADEC maintain's the weapon's integral bipod. The bipod itself is of a telescoping design, allowing for easy use of a foregrip in combination with the bottom rail when the bipod is folded. The bipod also features inbuilt springs for superior shock absorbtion. The ADEC features folding iron sights (as the weapon's design team had the use of optics specifically in mind), front post and rear ladder aperture sights, with settings going as far as 1,200m on the rear sight. A carry handle is also included with the weapon, an important feature of any machinegun. The fire selector switch (which has only two settings, 'SAFE' and 'FIRE') is of the switch variety, and is located just above the trigger on the lefthand side of the reciever, allowing for the shooter to toggle the fire selector switch without having to take his hand off of the trigger. Overall, the ADEC is a fairly light weapon courtesy of its simple roller delayed blowback design, although it is a bit heavier than some of its cousins (i.e. the Ameli light machinegun, which weighs a good two pounds less) due to the use of a larger, heavier caliber and the forced air cooling jacketed barrel. An interface beneath the reciever allows for an optional tripod to be used, allowing the weapon to act as a platoon or higher level support weapon, or for the ADEC to be fitted to vehicle mounts.
Naturally, the obscenely high volume of fire generated by the ADEC does bring about various concerns, most notably those of recoil and accuracy. Like any proper machinegun, the ADEC would ideally be fired from a supported position utilizing the weapon's bipod, in which case the high rate of fire of the weapon would be far more managable. However, lessons drawn from modern battles show that more often than not, the squad's automatic rifleman may find himself facing down opponents from close range in the case of house to house fighting, in which case he will not have the time needed to fire his weapon from a supported position. Armacorp's engineers were not oblivious to this fact and, working along side experienced Doomani and Agrandan infantrymen, built the weapon around the requirements of the modern automatic rifleman in this respect. To compensate for recoil and muzzle climb, a number of mechanisms are used to counteract these forces. First and foremost among these is inherent in the ADEC's design: like previous Doomani light machineguns, most notably the MLM, the ADEC's action makes use of the constant recoil principle. Using this mechanism, the ADEC's bolt has a fairly long way to travel to the rear of the reciever and the strength of the recoil spring has been carefully calculated, and as a result, the bolt is allowed to gradually slow down and not impact the rear of the reciever (which is also fitted with a polymer recoil buffer) at a very high speed, thus drastically reducing recoil. Compared to other light machineguns of similar caliber, the recoil of this weapon is laughable at best. This aspect of the ADEC is in turn combined with the addition of an advanced flash-suppressing muzzle brake fitted to the weapon's threaded muzzle, which serves to further reduce recoil by a large degree at the cost of making the weapon generate far more noise volume than it otherwise would have. A normal flash suppressor is also available should the customer prefer that in place of the muzzle brake. The weapons folding/collapsable stock also maintains a buffer spring, which further cusions the shooter from recoil and creates an overall more accurate platform. All of these aspects combined with the sheer weight of the weapon when loaded serve to make it more than managable while crouched or even standing, despite its extremely high rate of fire. The other major problem of a machinegun with an excessivly high rate of fire is one that tends to be difficult to solve: wear on the barrel. While many weapons counteract this by simply offering a quick change barrel assembly, this would still require the crew to cease fire in order to swap out a spent barrel for a fresh one when required. Armacorp's engineers again looked back to earlier DDI designs for their solution to this problem, which was especially prevelant in the ADEC. Their solution was to utilize a forced air cooling barrel, which features radial cooling ribs and a jacket, similar to that utilized on the MLM and 4M1 machineguns. However, the far higher rate of fire seen on the ADEC does result in somewhat less barrel life than on either of these two weapons, which boast the ability to fire six-hundred fifty rounds continuosly without any danger to the barrel. However, the ADEC's barrel is still extremely impressive, allowing for the shooter to fire a full five-hundred rounds continously without any danger to the barrel. Like most other machineguns, the ADEC also features a quick change assembly for the barrel in the event that it does overheat. Despite these assurances, Armacorp still offers a heavier bolt for sale which cuts the ADEC's rate of fire to 900 rounds per minute, although a seperate recoil spring must be used with this bolt in order for the constant recoil action to function properly.
A key component of the ADEC's design is its cartridge, the 6.7x35mm CTA round which originally made its debut with the popular AVIR assault rifle the ADEC was designed to supplement. Use of this round allows total ammunition commonality within an infantry squad or platoon while at the same time offering the ADEC a relatively low impulse but high powered cartridge. In its standard load, the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge puts a 110 grain projectile downrange at velocities exceeding 2,700 feet per second out of an 18" barrel, hitting its target with over 1,780 foot pounds of energy. Accuracy and lethality performance at range is also excellent thanks to the relatively heavy round. A key advantage of the 6.7x35mm round is its unusual design: it is a cased telescoping round, meaning that the actual projectile is set within the case, with the powder all around it. This creates a much shorter, more volume effecient round, one that is ideal for usage with the ADEC light machinegun in that it does not require a terribly long reciever in order for the constant recoil action to function properly in addition to allowing a 300-round combat box to be easily utilized alongside the weapon, granting the infantry squad an excellent tool for sustained fire. In addition, the casing is constructed of composite material, creating a round that is in effect 40% lighter than a round of comparable power with a brass case. The current primary export load for the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge is the APHP (armor piercing hollowpoint). This particular round features a steel core surrounded by a lead inner jacket and copper outer jacket, the tip of the projectile being designed on the basis of a hollowpoint with the tip of the steel core protruding outwards. When impacting a target, such as a person, the jacket expands outwards, while the steel core continues through into the target, hopefully yawing and causing even more damage. This allows for both a large entry wound and the possibility of the steel core causing even more internal damage to the target. When used against armored targets, the jackets would essentially flatten against the target while the narrower steel core would be able to follow through, hopefully penetrating the armor. The result is a round that is extremely lethal against unarmored targets while still being capable of penetrating armor. This is only one of many loads for the versitile 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge, others including jacketed hollowpoint (JHP), full metal jacket (FMJ), frangible (FG), armor piercing (AP), and a variety of tracer rounds. There are not currently any plans for any versions of the ADEC in other calibers, although it should be noted that the design, unlike the AVIR, is not reliant on the use of a CTA cartridge, and as a result Armacorp has admitted that it should be possible to offer the ADEC in other calibers should the need arise.
Technical Specifications
Type- Light Machinegun
Caliber- 6.7x35mm CTA
Muzzle Velocity- 2,750 fps
Operation- Roller delayed blowback
Barrel Length- 18"
Overall Length-
Stock fully extended- 42"
Stock fully collapsed- 38"
Stock folded- 34"
Weight-
Unloaded- 14.7lb
Loaded- 23.5lb
Feed- 300 round disintegrating link belt, combat box
Effective Range- 1000m
Rifling- 4 grooves, 1:10 right hand
Rate of Fire- 1200 rounds per minute
Fire Modes- Fully automatic only
Export Cost- $2500
ADEC-G and ADEC-V Medium Machinegun
The ADEC-G is a heavier versions of the ADEC light machinegun designed to be deployed as a crew-served weapon at the platoon and company levels with a bipod or tripod, and lacks the more complex folding/collapsable stock of the lighter ADEC, replacing it instead with a simpler fixed stock. The ADEC-V is a variant of the ADEC-G commonly employed on vehicles as a defensive weapon and employs a spade grip in place of the pistol grip. These variants have been chambered for the heavier 7x50mm CTA cartridge, which boasts superior range and stopping power over the 6.7x35mm CTA round, making the weapon far more suited for the medium machinegun role.
Technical Specifications
Type- Light Machinegun
Caliber- 7x50mm CTA
Muzzle Velocity- 2,850 fps
Operation- Roller delayed blowback
Barrel Length- 21"
Overall Length- 45"
Weight-
Unloaded- 18.7lb
Loaded- 29.5lb
Feed- 200 round disintegrating link belt, combat box
Effective Range- 1,200m
Rifling- 4 grooves, 1:11 right hand
Rate of Fire- 1000 rounds per minute
Fire Modes- Fully automatic only
Export Cost- $2900
Armacorp will henceforth be offering one thousand round steel ammo cans of 6.7x35mm CTA APHP ammunition at a cost of $300 each, including shipping. Production rights for the 6.7x35mm CTA cartridge are available for a nominal cost of $50,000,000.