Neldar Poska
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Image Source: http://liammacdonald.blogspot.com/2013/07/asura-concept-for-laser-gun-and.htmlIntent: Provide a modern day upgrade to the FC-1
Development Thread: N/A
Manufacturer: Golan Arms
Model: FC-2
Affiliation: Limited Market (Requires Permission or thread)
Modularity: Can Use Anti-Vehicle or Anti-Personnel Rounds (Switchable ammo)
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel
Classification: Flechette Launcher
Size: Handheld
Length: 1.4m
Weight: 12kg
Ammunition Type: Flechette Canister
Ammunition Capacity: 6
Effective Range: 250m (Optimal: 100m)
Rate of Fire: Single Action (Double shot)
Special Features:
Two Ammo Types - Anti-Infantry or Anti-Armor
Lethal - This weapon is designed to massacre
Strengths:
Powerful - Armored infantry and vehicles will have dozens of holes through them
Simple Ammo Switch - To change ammunition, change the canister. Every two-shots are loaded individually of the one before it, requiring manual load and reload. Single shots can be loaded and fired, but pulling the trigger activates both chambers
Weaknesses:
Very Slow - Single Action, and nothing is automated, the user must actively load, reload, prime, and fire. It's reload time takes upwards of 30-40 seconds
Heavy - The weight of the weapon forces any ordinary humanoid to use no other weapons, except maybe a small pistol, rarely even a pistol or grenades. Recommended for ammo to be in backpacks for weight distribution
Description: The FC-2 is the upgrade to the FC-1, making it a lot more powerful and have a little more ammunition, for effectiveness of todays standards. It suffers with a longer reload time, but is just as effective with range as its predecessor, but its specialized ammunition allow more to be carried and fired. It isn't made to capture, and it isn't preferred as an anti-infantry weapon, however, using it for anti-infantry purposes can be considered inhumane, and could be seen as genocidal actions. Moderately armored vehicles will feel the brunt of this weapon. Although, instead of a full force rocket, it is design to put holes into a vehicles hull, killing its occupants, like a shrapnel grenade being dropped into the cockpit.
Vehicle Armor up to: Heavy, non-reinforced
Infantry Armor up to: 8 (On Armor Quality)
The canisters provide compressed, ignitable gas, able to excellerate the rounds without making them go off by other means. The weapon fires an Armor piercing slug, as large as six inches long as an inch and a half wide, which will explode depending on the pressure designated. Anti Personnel rounds require very little pressure, but explodes a few miliseconds after the pressure hits, allowing it to pass through personal armor and explode between the armor and flesh, or penetrating flesh and imploding within the body. The end result is a small explosion with shrapnel and some fire. The result and way the round works is the same for the anti vehicle round, except it requires a lot more pressure, a lot more. However, these rounds can easily be counteracted with spaced and layered armor such as Chobham Armour, Spaced Armour or extremely thick or extremely strong material, resulting in the round exploding within the armor, or in the space between the armor. Against vehicles, it's designed to suffocate or knock out crew, or destroy systems, allowing it to, perhaps, be repairing or even taken over without destroying the entire vehicle.
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