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Imperator-Zor — Imperial Assault Rifle
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A Novan SR50 Assault Rifle. The Main weapon of the Novan Imperial Military, having remained so for some 150 years. A Gauss based weapon, the SR50 fires 4mm explosive AP rounds at 2520 meters per second, feeding from a 96 round helical magazine. Its power cell is good for 500 shots. It has three modes of fire, single shot, three round burst and full automatic with a rate of fire of 750 rounds per minute. For targeting it has a built in laser rangefinder and HUD linkup scope. While each individual round is less powerful than that of the 4.62mm QBZ-258, it has a greater ammunition capacity and is more controllable by non power armored soldiers. It can be outfitted with the following systems (among others). For security purposes, these weapons are keyed to only be used by authorized forces (Imperial Military Personnel, Police, etc).A: A 20mm shotgun/airburst grenade launcher
B: A 40mm Grenade launcher
C: A detachable secondary hand grip.
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They can't be advanced at all if they ignore humanoid anatomy (the grip!!!)...
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I get wrist aches from only taking a look at the grip...
And your technobabble is not quite acurate, because Gauss weapons still would have recoil, due to the impulse <> counter-impulse(?) rule of physics, which is: The force that is applied to an object is given back in the appropriate direction.
So, if the weapon accelerates the ammo up to 2400m/sec. the ammo "reflects" the same amount of force(energy?) back at the weapon.
Do you get what i try to explain to you? xD
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'Felt recoil' has a lot to do with how that energy is applied to the firer over time, though.
*A (presumably multi-stage) gauss weapon doesn't accelerate the projectile all at once, it will do so in several closely-timed pulses. This will contribute to reducing felt recoil.
*Weight of the weapon. This design is a somewhat bulky-looking one; if the gun is relatively weighty as a result, its inertia means that the recoil force will cause less acceleration of the gun, and thus less felt recoil for the user.
*Low round caliber. 4mm is a pretty darn tiny round, so I'm guessing the weapon works primarily via the ultra high muzzle velocity; Ke=M*V^2 (so it hits hard despite being tiny), while recoil force is just F=M*A. Smaller rounds generally mean less felt recoil.
*The stock looks like it's adjustable, and has ample space to incorporate springs, pneumatics, or the like to further dampen felt recoil.
None of the above require two thousand years of technological advancement in order to reduce the weapon's felt recoil, and if you take all of them together, it seems you could indeed have a weapon with astonishingly small -felt- recoil.
You're right about the trigger group, though. To Imperator Zor- Assault rifle grips need to be angled back towards the firer in order to accommodate the way the human wrist moves in a gun-holding posture. Otherwise they force the hand and wrist into an uncomfortable, awkward pose with limited mobility.
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I don't know the exact details of the mechanics of this weapon. It was created by a civilization more than two millennia more advanced than ours. Part of it is that it is the fact that the Gauss assembly does collapse slightly on firing.
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