The Hunger
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create an semi-automatic Grenade Launcher
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- Manufacturer: N&Z Umbrella Corporation and subsidiaries
- Affiliation: Closed Market
- Model: NZ RF-850
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Ersteel 145 internal Components
- Ersteel 145 Barrel construction
- Duraplast casing, handle and stock construction
- Heat resistant Carbonite coating
- Classification: Grenade launcher
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Grenades: explosive, thermal, incendiary and EMP detonators
- Ammunition Capacity: Large [up to 15 grenades per loader, one tibanna gas cannister per three loaders]
- Effective Range: Long Range
- Rate of Fire: Low
- Stopping Power: Extreme
- Recoil: Average
- Anti-lock and anti jam system
- Manual and automatic settings
- Loader ejection system
- Laser targeting system
- Automatic setting: Unlike most Grenade launchers, the RF-850 allows for the repetion of firing grenades without needing to continuously squeeze the trigger for the next shot, allowing for a more effective and suppressive way of firing off your payload at enemy targets.
- Sturdy: The heavy use of ersteel 145 and a carbonite coating makes this weapon resistant to energy weaponry and heat, thus making it possible to take some hits from other weapons prior to any sort of malfunction or needing any repair, allowing for those wielding this weapon to worry less about how long they'd be able to go on.
- Extreme stopping power: Due to the pressurized tibanna gas being used to more presicely launch the grenades with each shot and further enhance the launchspeed, the projectiles used in this launcher are launched at such speeds that they are comparable to a slugthrower in speed, thus greatly improving the effective power of this weapon, as projectiles don't even need to detonate to be effective, they can just be usedto hit an opponent as well, attributed to the massive stopping power of the weapon.
- Cumbersome: As a very heavy and very large weapon, this piece of equipment is not for the frail of body. One needs to be acquainted with the use of heavy equipment and have had some decent military training to effectively and efficiently use this weapon. It's overal size and general weight also make it relatively impossible for even trained soldiers of a low weightclass to even lift this thing. Bulking up dem muscles is a must when using this piece of equipment.
- Low Rate of fire: Though it offers the choice between automatic and manual in its settings, its general rate of fire is to be expected at the lower end of the comparable weapons, this due to the fact that with every new shot, the internal tibanna gas needs to be pressurized again to maximize the effect and power of each shot.
The necessity of a grenade launcher became apparent to the weapons division of the N&Z Umbrella Corporation after it had been making a multitude of grenades and IED's, designing them to be used in and with launchers, but not having such a piece of brutal weaponry themselves did seem a bit contrary to their goals. As such, requests were made to start designing a piece of equipment which could effectively be used as a grenade launcher and thus be sold as such. The engineers and designers of the weapons division went to work and went through great lengths to design a weapon suitable for the job they had in mind: an effective and multifunctional grenade launcher that would be suited for urban combat and suppression.
One of the first things to be truly decided wasthe heavy use of the company's Ersteel 145 compound which allowed for greater use of internal heat and friction, which lead to the second innovative part. Rather than utilizing any sort of launching mechanism with springs and coils or combustion, it utilized pressurized tibanna gass which would be collected in the chamber behind the projectile of choice and would rapidly expand when the cover between the pressure chamber and the projectile would be removed, thus allowing for much higher efficiency in terms of range and general stopping power, though of course the draw back wasthat it would take more time to prepare each shot and thus lowered the rate of fire.
Duraplast was used to fill up the shell and casing of the weapon, with a heat-resistant carbonite coating allowing it to work for much longer periods without overheating of the barrel or any internals.
