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SithiR [2008-12-02 07:43:12 +0000 UTC]

By the future, there will be self-leveling bipods and self-leveling tripods and self-leveling monopods, I think, with computer assisted rheopectic liquid shock absorbers. A soldier would not need to use his hands to flip down the mechanism, nor to adjust the length of the leg(s). They already have a foregrip that contains an extensible weapon bipod, it is called "Grip Pod"®.

If I were a future anti-materiel rifle manufacturer, I would have a front self-leveling bipod, and AT LEAST a rear self-leveling monopod on a STRONG ball joint (this is essential). The soldier removes his hands from the M1000 "M-one-kay," "Mik" Objective Sniper Weapon (circa 2024), and it STAYS on target, he can rest as needed. There is a targeting computer. There may be a laser to focus the scope towards where the soldier's eye moves. The lens shape changes are precisely computer assisted.

Anti-tank rifle rounds: sticky flare? homing device? scorpion-shaped metal-cutting sabotage robots? corrosive? Is there a miniature magnetoplasmodynamic warhead, like the US Army wants, for tank shells and missiles that would melt targets even better than what we have now? buckyball scattering "shotgun-type" arrangement ricochets around crew compartment? and if your rifle fires a shell containing some net, or inflatable, or super-epoxy, then you may be able to gum up the tank barrel. If I am in the tank, and I attempt to fire, I may be killed.

When you set up heavy anti-materiel rifles, every second counts. I think you should make it clearer that your rifle can be broken into modules, and or folds some parts, even automatically. I would make some parts click together by magnetism, and or parts with computer-assisted radio-frequency identification tags. This helps with less well-trained users, especially when user themselves have wearable heads-up displays. With present tech, it is very hard to imagine making the barrel itself from more than one part. The comic hero, Nick Fury, spoke of a sniper rifle with finely adjustable range by means of binary liquid propellant and a motorized telescoping barrel, something like a radio antenna. I have thought of putting magnets and gyroscopes so that a barrel made into segments could be clicked together without being less accurate. But it would leak!

I would estimate your rifle needs a big muzzle brake. I would consider a holographic flash suppressor. If I see where you shoot from, you will be killed. Clip: five rounds? That is normal. I would want six or seven, to be safe.

What action does this have? Cased or caseless? Direction of case ejection, if any? Direction of gas ejection? You see? Anti-materiel rifles are very hard to design, make, and use.

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Scav3nger [2007-12-15 05:02:44 +0000 UTC]

Looks quite similar in appearance to the SR90 Sniper Rifle in Halo 3... But it looks cool all the same.

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Aeires [2005-06-11 02:18:49 +0000 UTC]

Screw the tree hugging liberals, I want one.

I like how you did this in both modes to add more detail to the overall model. Nicely done.

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faradayrx [2005-05-23 02:58:53 +0000 UTC]

Oooo, that last one is all fancily colored in. O_o I like it!!! It...it....looks so neat. ;;

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Tim-HeXetic-G [2005-05-05 12:57:57 +0000 UTC]

Archiving the comments I said to Doc in #planetcnc on [link] :

[08:41] Way, way, way too small to be an AT rifle
[08:42] Have you seen a Barret? That thing is like eight feet long
[08:42] And a Barrett is only effective against trucks, not tanks
[08:42] AT guns have to be motherfucking HUGE these days
[08:43] ah
[08:45] The Soviet M1944 100mm anti-tank gun that fires AP, HEAT, and HE arms has a barrel almost 6 metres long - and that's for a *100mm* barrel. This thing isn't more than 10 or 20mm. Even firing SABOT, it's got to be a lot longer
[08:46] What's funny is that usually you draw stuff too big >_<

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TheAenigma [2005-05-04 22:27:34 +0000 UTC]

This Nation States roleplay. Is it something you made or is it as extension of that site where you can build your own nation and such?

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sercoe [2005-05-04 22:00:54 +0000 UTC]

coolness. the shading does make it looks better.

good job.

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