Approved Tech MMSW-10 Foxtrot Vulcan Blaster

[Saera Willamina Savan]

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Intent: It is finally time RRDI developed its own vehicle-based weapon system (Hyperlance notwithstanding), as most of its previous developments were done with canon weapons purchased from galactic manufacturers. The Foxtrot is designed to replicate the merits and flaws of rotary "slugthrowers" of real-life fighter equivalents. Submission made because the Z6E and Z24 man-carried rotary blaster cannons are no longer being accepted as single-count weapons for my future fighter submissions. This weapon looks at first glance to be extra powerful because of its high rate of fire, but this is not true as many of those rounds are guaranteed to miss due to speed and range; however, this ratio has been more closened with this submission.
Development Thread: None
Manufacturer: Ri'ess Regal Drives
Model: MMSW-10 Foxtrot
Affiliation: Closed Market *Licensed
Modularity: Can be installed in virtually anything from an Interceptor, up, and ground vehicles larger than an LBT including turrets (platform not included).
Production: Mass-Produced
Material: Durasteel, Kalestat Crystal Core (Pink Bolts)
Description: The MMSW-10 Vulcan is a three-barrel high-powered rotary blaster cannon originally intended to be fit into starfighters and phalanx systems, though versatile and standalone enough to be installed into a multitude of different vehicle types. It takes after the solid slugthrower cannons of old, replacing incendiary head slugs with heavy energy bolts. There is not much to the Foxtrot. It functions in the same way an infantry-based rotary blaster cannon does. Speed has been reduced in turn for capacity and strength, but the entire weapon system is much larger than the man-portable rotary blaster cannon predecessors that have been used in the Ventus interceptor and Deathbell elite fighter, improving on range and versatility. The result was a gun that did not spew out a stream of rounds in close range for strict air-to-air combat but a one that could strike with the overall power of a light cannon and had the effective range to be effective against ground installations and capital turrets as well; something highly impractical before. Hits harder than a man-portable heavy blaster cannon, but softer than a linear laser cannon, using rate to meet the difference.
Classification: Blaster Cannon
Size: Stationary, Ship-Mounted (2:1 Cost)
Status: Military [Restricted]
Length: 3.6 meters
Weight: 232 kilograms (dry weight), 22 kilogram cell
Ammunition Type: Power Crate Cell
Ammunition Capacity: 3,200 per Crate (1 Crate per standard installation)
Rate of Fire: 26 rounds per second
Muzzle Velocity: 285 meters per second
Effective Range: ~650 meters

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Særa Ayña Savan"]

If you could drop this to twelve rounds per second (to get each barrel's rate of fire more in line with canon blaster cannons) and make a note that it's worth two laser cannons, I think we're good to go.

 

[Saera Willamina Savan]

[member="Rasho the Hutt"] - Regular blasters do not use rotary barrels and making it worth two completely defeats the purpose of both, as starship laser cannons do far more damage despite their lack of speed. A canon rotary blaster fires at up to 6,000 rounds per minute; this has been reduced significantly already. I humbly request that I be let to reduce the power instead of the rate of fire, and have tweaked the wording a little already to compare it as stronger than a heavy blaster rifle (a man-portable anti-infantry weapon) but weaker than a basic laser cannon. As it stands, this had already been compared to a light cannon in overall use.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Særa Ayña Savan"] - Request accepted, but as a repeating weapon it's still worth two. Please make that edit.

 

[Saera Willamina Savan]

[member="Rasho the Hutt"] - The edit was/is made.
The doubled cost leaves conventional laser cannons twofold as strong in power-per-minute ratio after factoring accuracy and use, and kind of defeats the purpose of this submission being made (as the canon Z-6 and modernized Z-24 were already stated as now costing two instead of one), but this is still kind of cool and I'll take it. At least it's still more effective Air-to-Air than the predecessors were.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Særa Ayña Savan"]
So, to sum up: It's a repeating cannon with low-powered blasts and a high rate of fire, and is worth two starfighter cannons. Approved pending secondary.

 

[Lief]

Approved.