Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: OK, here we go again, genius that I am I have taken care of all this with my amazing design skills...
Ejection port - None, it fires caseless ammo. This is the future after all. It may well be electrically fired as well, I've been looking at the demos on metalstorm.com of his crazy electric guns and they are fearsome.
I wasn't sure whether this was using ordinary ammo or not. On the MetalStorm front, Burning away all your ammo in a second is not much fun as it requires a mag change for every pull of the trigger.
. Seriously, you want 2 to 2 rounds per target to kill them, not half a mag (remember you're guys have to carry the ammo).
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Sighting - Not on it yet, there'll be an electronic unit mounted high up on the tall section with iron sights cut through below it, they're just not there yet. I might yet change those 2 rail/handles for a solid mount rail/handle like the G36, we'll have to see what looks best. Anyone who's tried to use a Steyr Augs built in sights while wearing glasses or goggles will know exactly the problems you described, it's worse than useless, so mine are well up out the way.
I wasn't sure how high up your sights were going to be (I thought maybe that back part was th front of the sight), but having it high up helps. You still need to have the Stock moved back though as right now you have a distance of about 2-3 inches between the end of the folded stock and the sights (you simply can't see them, to use them). For the carrying handle, make it hollow, so the sight see's straight through it, you could put a slight groove in the top and mount the Emergency Iron Sights along that.
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Flash hider - is pretty much a straight copy of the current crop of H&K flash hiders, the slant means nowt as the sights are high anyway, but it might help keep the gun level as you say. The prongs are well thick, and if it's good enough for H7K, it's good enough for me. I doubt this is aa front-line weapon anyway, more a PDW as pointed out earlier.
Actually the rifle
G36 has a Ring at the end and no slant. Unless your going down the road of soviet military doctrine (high volume of fire, no aiming, firing from the hip whilst running), there is no need for that slant and the flame from it will blind your sight as it will be about 1 foot in length and that's ertainly long enough to get in the way of your sight!
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Feed Mechanism and Mag design - again, this is the future. the mag is way longer than the bullets because the mag is also the power for the electric firing mechanism. The actual workings are mounted high over the breech, hence the height difference at the back if you look at the black metal parts. This gives us the aesthetically pleasing slant on the mag and space for feeder mechanisms to work. Slanting the mag the other way looks shit, and a flat one is boring. My way it looks nice and it works.
Yes, but how are you physivcally feeding a round into the breech? Unless you are firing the round from the top of the mag (with the top of each mag containing the breech), you need a physical system to move the rounds, and the only way you can do it reliably is Gas-blowback in a small system like a rifle. That means that the bolt must move back behind the mag to pick up a new round and feed it forwards. There's no room in you design for this. You can do it, but you still need more room at the back for a return spring.
If you are doing the Breech as the top of the mag (needed to isolate the rounds underneath from the heat of combustion - especially your caseless rounds) then how are you controlling the opening to feed n a new round, you're back to needing a gas-blowback mechanism and return spring somewhere in the design.
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Cocking handle - This is meant to be an electronically controlled weapon so I'm in 2 minds about adding one. If I do it'll be mounted centrally on top of the exposed part of the mid-barrel area like the G36, so it can be used with any hand.
You need something to feed in the first round, it doesn't magically feed itself.
And again even with a 'breech on the top of the mag' design, you need a cocking handle to manually remove misfires or damaged rounds (also another reason for having an ejection port, and why Caseless rounds don't really catch on - you can't clear a stoppage without removing the whole mag and fiddling around with it). The FAMAS has a Cocking handle on the top unde the Carrying handle that can be used by ether hand, which is why I suggested it.
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Bolt ons - not yet added a laser unit, bayonet mount or other goodies, although I think I will have to. The laser will come with the electronic sights I think, and the bayonet I'll have to look into. You're right though, almost all modern weapons still have a bayonet mount for morale reasons and I forgot all about it. I'll get right on it.
What's the unit above the foregrip then? And what does the foregrip button do?
Kenny_10_Bellys wrote: Still to add safety catch, fire select buttons, mag release buttons, sight controls and possible a digital rounds counter a la Aliens. Keep the ideas coming though, they do make me think a bit. Considering it's just to look nice for a competition there's a surprising amount of thought that has to go into these things dont you think? It's a shame I can't get to use it in real life, I'd like to see an airsoft version of this some day. I'd buy it.
Make the safety catch a thunb switch like on a pistol(rather than the push through button like on the SA-80) it just works better and faster. Have it mounted on the pistol-grip level with the trigger, so the thumb rests on it naturally, then above the thunbhole you could mount the Fire selector (3rd or semi), so you just need to pull your thumb up and back a bit to engage it.
Because of the placement of the mag (way to the rear, and hidden under bodywork0) it'll be awkward to get your free hand to and still hold the mag when it's released if you use a button on the body (plus you have to make the button work from both sides for ambidextrous use), so why not use a lever forward of the magazine well, like on the FAL FN, works from both sides, rememberyou make it so the lever moves
towards the mag to release it.
And I still don't see how making the base of the mag slant the wrong way will make it work better.
Seriously, if you are hidebound and determined to put a slant on the muzzle then why not have it end flat and then put a V notch in the end so the gases go to the sides and you still have a distinctive end to the weapon.
The 'H' is meant ro be in a recessed hollow, the 'L' would be Raised, so you could tell the difference in the dark or without looking, obviously it would be a positive lock system, so you can feel thm engage in their positions as the thumbwheel rotates.
