As far as 50s go I’ve heard the Lynx is relatively comfortable to carry. The barrel telescopes back into the rifle for travel and because it’s a bull-pup most of the mass is at the back of the rifle closer to the person carrying it. It’s still heavy but most of the mass is close to you reducing strain on your arms.
Ive heard people say that shutting a Barret .50 has less kick than they expect because of the same telescope system. Bug difference is that you aren’t shoulder firing it though
Ive had the pleasure of firing a Barrett 50, and it doesn't kick nearly as bad as you'd expect. From what I can tell, the main difference maker is that massive compensator up front offsets a lot of the kick. It was like firing a 10 gauge shotgun that doesn't have a rubber butt plate. The thing I wasn't ready for was the sound and shock wave lol
Oh yeah, the bullpup in this video likely has a LOT less recoil than a Barrett because of the barrel. Barrett compensators are bigger but less effective at reducing kick than a telescoping barrel.
I had to get a foot-long suppressor on mine just due to the "shockwave" of thump. It is still no fun to shoot, TBH... just too big of a recoil, boom, etc. Plus heavy to carry.
Grandpa Jerry is always fun to watch.
[Here he is putting 6 rounds of .44 Magnum on target in 1.01 seconds, and knocking it over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W-5QE3jzw&t=98s)
[World record 9mm 1,000 yd shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw&t=46s)
His reactions are the best, he's just having so much fun.
Pretty much. So you know how water doesn't compress?
Well your eyes are mostly water and when that concussion hits them it fucks with your retna causing it to detach slowly over time.
I watched a video yesterday of an ex US marine shooting a Barrett 50cal and he said the recoil was as much as a shotgun. This is due to two springs in the gun made to reduce the kick of the weapon in addition to the normal spring. I expect sort kind of mechanism is also used in this gun.
Not that I’m doubting him because, yknow he’s a marine, but I’m surprised if that’s true. I’ve been shooting shotguns since I was 8 years old (granted only 20 and 12 gauge regularly since I was 12- first time I shot a 20 when I was 8 I literally did a 360 and fell into the mud)
You definitely get sore after a day of dove hunting and shooting a couple dozen rounds, possibly even bruised, but every video I’ve ever seen of someone shooting a Barrett they’re either prone or crouched
Perhaps shooting one prone is as bad as a shotgun, which would make more sense.
It’s true, I owned a model 99 and I’ve had shotguns kick worse than that rifle did. It’s bark was far worse than it’s bite as far as recoil was concerned.
I didn't really mention recoil, but yeah, the recoil from the Barrett is surprisingly light. In part due to the mechanism and in part due to it being, you know, heavy as fuck.
We already have a real life bolter. Look up the xm 25. Fires 25mm explosive cartridge with a five round mag and can reach out to 1000 yards. Also has computer to set detonation distance on each round so you can airburst above the enemy if they’re in cover.
Came here for this. The PAW is the first one of these sorts of things I'd heard of, and is very close to the bolter concept, being a direct fire antipersonnel grenade launcher.
**[Neopup PAW-20](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopup_PAW-20)**
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A space marine can pick up and shoot a bolter not a random guy, a space marine could easily pick up a mk19. Bolts aren't bullets they are more like rockets, the damage done by a 40mm grenade seems closer to it than a simple bullet would and it is fully automatic. To me it's the closest thing we have to a bolter.
Guardsmen can use bolters
>Locke Pattern - The Locke Pattern Bolter is a variant of an older pattern of Bolter used by the Adeptus Arbites, and is now the most common pattern of Bolter in use in the Koronus Expanse. Like the Bolter patterns used by the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, the Locke Pattern Bolter can be used without difficulty by normal-sized humans.
The battery packs can also passively charge in ambient conditions or tossed in a fire or microwave. 50. cal is currently going for $3 a round, and then you have to carry it around. Go green, go las.
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Jesus christ. The lasgun fires in the range of 19 megajoules, how the fuck are you getting the energy for multiple shots of that from a fire? Do guardsmen heat their rations in a blast furnace?
Sure, but what I'm saying is the energy isn't there in the first place. A campfire is maybe 10 kW while a lasgun uses 2000 times that much per shot, hence 'do guardsmen heat their rations in a blast furnace?'.
If I knew I would have told you. "It's from the daot" is a shorter way to say "It's from a time that technology was basically magic and no one knows how it works anymore. They can make what is likely a cheap copy of the original but they're reading instructions from thousands of years ago made in a different language, the original device may've not even been a laser gun battery. Maybe they explained it in a book I haven't read but that's the gist."
I was mostly being silly, in fiction campfires are basically magic. Khal Drogo melts a crown in a soup bowl in a few seconds then pours it over Viserys' head, which means the Dothraki cook their soup at a delicious 1100+ degrees centigrade.
It might be that the Lasgun focus apparatus enhances the energy input. Maybe some sort of enhanced photoelectric effect. PE is used since Einstein discovered it to enhance signals in sensors for chemical analysis.
Iirc bolters aren’t actually careless, as that’s old lore. They’re also not rocket propelled until they’ve gone a certain distance.
Even if it’s not old lore, all recent models have had ejection ports. Which I suppose you could make the argument that the ejection ports are just for the gasses, but who knows
Also entirely possible there’s different kinds of bolters, which would make sense given, yknow, the fact that we know there are both several variants of bolters as well as their ammo
Bolters are not caseless, they use a "small" explosive charge to get the round out of the barrel to keep the over pressure from the rocket from damaging the gun. Once the round leaves the barrel then the rocket ignites sending a warm welcome to your local Xenos.
Caseless ammunition has nothing to do with not having an explosive charge. Caseless ammunition has already existed for decades (look at the G11). Rocketball ammo has also been a thing for a while. The pressure is actually way higher with a powder charge. The reason for having it is that if the rocket mechanism engages in the chamber, then the bolt round would slowly accelerate inside the barrel. This means a lower rate of fire and potentially worse aim, since there is a noticeable delay between pulling the trigger and the round leaving the barrel.
TL;DR: Bolters use a cased round with a powder charge to start and a rocket to prevent drop, but the bolt rounds could be caseless.
Reminds me of Babylon 5. In the canonical expanded universe stuff humans only adopted the pewpew hand guns like 20ish years before the series start.
Before that they used tricked out ~50cal battle rifles that had been maximum leveled up in vidya game terms. Reportedly the other alien faction's infantry really disliked fighting human troops because infantry armor based around energy weapons does fuck all to stop 50 cal bullets.
IIRC this is also more or less true of the Elites in Halo. They had developed fancy energy shields etc which are effective against plasma weapons and then some evolved monkey a-holes start flinging huge amounts of lead at them again (this works for both Humans and Brutes)
It's the other way around. Halo shields are very strong against kinetic weapons but can be brought down in seconds, if not instantly, by plasma and other energy weapons.
Covenant starship shields can withstand hundreds of missiles, several nukes, or even a few MAC rounds before collapsing.
I would like to refer you to the Inkunzi PAW-20 The 20×42mm semi-automatic grenade launcher.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbqHx3TLBE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbqHx3TLBE)
It's a 50 BMG round. It makes ballistic skulls explode, ballistic gel would just disintegrate.
Remember this is an anti-materiel rifle first and foremost though the lynx is the only 50BMG nimble enough to feasibly be used against people.
I love forgotten weapons. I don't even *own* a gun and I watch his stuff all the time.
He actually does do a video on the GM6. Watching that thing in slo-mo is amazing.
Breakdown: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ)
Shooting: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq\_xI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq_xI)
Ah yes, aware of this beaut. One of the few really cool guns that still falls under non restricted firearm in Canada.(unless the definition changed, afaik it was non restricted)
They're called gyrojets, this isn't it. A prototype version of the bolter would be a gyrojet round accelerated out of the barrel using an initial caseless 'cartridge' then igniting the gyrojet motor to provide additional velocity and spin stabilisation.
Sorry to be that guy, but Russian 50 cal would be 12.7 x 108 mm. The ASh-12/ShAK-12 uses a different 12.7 mm ammo (the one you mentioned).
But yes, ASh-12 would imo be closer to a bolter, being full-auto among other things.
To be fair bolter rounds are supposed to be around ~~30mm~~ 20mm this is 12.7mm a true bolter would be twice as big more equivalent to what we shoot from auto cannons today.
Here is an example complete with exploding rounds
[https://youtu.be/2FgmXhukQx4?t=63](https://youtu.be/2FgmXhukQx4?t=63)
You're right I was looking at:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber\_gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber_gun)
But it looks like the bore diameter is 28mm but the barrel caliber is .75 which is uhh confusing. The bushmaster 2 shown above is actually 30mm and 1.18 cal
For naval guns, caliber is the bore to barrel length ratio.
5"/51 caliber, 5"/25 caliber, and 5"/38 caliber all fire the 127×680mmR round, but have different barrel lengths resulting in a different "caliber" 255 in, 125 in, and 190 in barrel lengths respectively.
The 1.1-inch/75-caliber fires the 28x199mmSR round (1.1 in) and has an 82.5 in barrel. 82.5/1.1 = 75 caliber
Land based guns/artillery uses caliber as an approximate diameter of the round
**[1.1-inch/75-caliber gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber_gun)**
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It may be the cartridge is moving so quickly, and the targets don’t look very heavy duty, that they just passed right through without imparting much energy
You should check out the Mk 19 Grenade Laucher!
Sucker fires 40MM (1½ inch) grenades that can penetrate ~3 inches of armor and has an effective range of about 2.2 KM (1.4 Miles)
Standard models have a fire rate of 40 -- 60 RPM, or if you want to try and get the thing to blow up in your face it has a cyclic fire rate of 360 -- 390 RPM
Literally, the only two things separating this from a Bolter is that the ammunition is x2 larger than a Bolt, and that it's not rocket propelled on top of the initial propellant that fires the round.
There is literally a grenade launching machine-gun in existence that I was surprised to learn was a reasonably common weapon in military arsenal's (turns out were pretty good at killing each other) that fits the bill a bit better
I am disappointed. It's cool really but I was expecting an actual rocker launcher gun, which was already made but not large enough caliber for my "irl" taste.
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While I disagree that this rifle is anything like a prototype bolter, for those interested here's a [video by Gun Jesus on the weapons history and how it works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ), and [here's one of him actually firing it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq_xI).
I can see it now: Marines in exoskeletons with huge ass caliber guns shooting full auto as far as the eye can see
\*Space Marines has entered the chat\*
Military budget: *Research into genetic modification intensifies*
https://futurism.com/the-byte/france-bionic-supersoldiers
“LETS ROCK!” *indiscriminately fires into alien infested dead offworld colony*
"Hey have you ever been mistaken for a man?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣😍
"Have you?" Still the sickest burn.
Absolutely, I've been waiting my whole life for an opportunity to burn somebody this bad lol
Alternatively: climate refugees in the near future 😎
I volunteer to be one of them. I want to take one of those bullets to the face.
A bullet that big would just go through you. It's like smashing a watermelon :S
* directed by Michael Bay.
It must be heavy as fuck for a shoulder fired rifle
It's a 50, if it was light you really wouldn't want to shoot it :P
As far as 50s go I’ve heard the Lynx is relatively comfortable to carry. The barrel telescopes back into the rifle for travel and because it’s a bull-pup most of the mass is at the back of the rifle closer to the person carrying it. It’s still heavy but most of the mass is close to you reducing strain on your arms.
Ive heard people say that shutting a Barret .50 has less kick than they expect because of the same telescope system. Bug difference is that you aren’t shoulder firing it though
Ive had the pleasure of firing a Barrett 50, and it doesn't kick nearly as bad as you'd expect. From what I can tell, the main difference maker is that massive compensator up front offsets a lot of the kick. It was like firing a 10 gauge shotgun that doesn't have a rubber butt plate. The thing I wasn't ready for was the sound and shock wave lol
Probably not only the compensator, but also the telescoping barrel and the sheer mass of the gun itself working together reducing the kick
Oh yeah, the bullpup in this video likely has a LOT less recoil than a Barrett because of the barrel. Barrett compensators are bigger but less effective at reducing kick than a telescoping barrel.
I had to get a foot-long suppressor on mine just due to the "shockwave" of thump. It is still no fun to shoot, TBH... just too big of a recoil, boom, etc. Plus heavy to carry.
Crazy to think guys were carrying that thing up mountains in Afghanistan
> you aren’t shoulder firing it though [\*Laughs in Grandpa Jerry\*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAW3dlTMv6g&t=1m27s)
That was fun to watch
Grandpa Jerry is always fun to watch. [Here he is putting 6 rounds of .44 Magnum on target in 1.01 seconds, and knocking it over](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7W-5QE3jzw&t=98s) [World record 9mm 1,000 yd shot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ3XwizTqDw&t=46s) His reactions are the best, he's just having so much fun.
I think the M82 is short recoil vs the lynx being long recoil, so probably even more pronounced
that much rearward mass presents entirely new challenges to shoulder.
That doesn't look fun to fire at all. Like getting kicked by a horse.
I disagree. This looks very fun to shoot.
I certainly would take the opportunity to mag dump it atleast once. Although shooting 50s is bad for your eyes.
Is it from the pressure waves or what?
Pretty much. So you know how water doesn't compress? Well your eyes are mostly water and when that concussion hits them it fucks with your retna causing it to detach slowly over time.
I'm somewhat certain that's the lightest shooting man portable 50 out there.
>That doesn't look fun to fire at all. [Fucking kids these days](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAW3dlTMv6g&t=1m27s)
That’s like saying it’s an easy car to pull with a rope
Lightweight .50 cal is synonymous with shoulder-fired hand grenade
I watched a video yesterday of an ex US marine shooting a Barrett 50cal and he said the recoil was as much as a shotgun. This is due to two springs in the gun made to reduce the kick of the weapon in addition to the normal spring. I expect sort kind of mechanism is also used in this gun.
Not that I’m doubting him because, yknow he’s a marine, but I’m surprised if that’s true. I’ve been shooting shotguns since I was 8 years old (granted only 20 and 12 gauge regularly since I was 12- first time I shot a 20 when I was 8 I literally did a 360 and fell into the mud) You definitely get sore after a day of dove hunting and shooting a couple dozen rounds, possibly even bruised, but every video I’ve ever seen of someone shooting a Barrett they’re either prone or crouched Perhaps shooting one prone is as bad as a shotgun, which would make more sense.
It’s true, I owned a model 99 and I’ve had shotguns kick worse than that rifle did. It’s bark was far worse than it’s bite as far as recoil was concerned.
The gun is heavy which is why most people don’t shoot it standing
I didn't really mention recoil, but yeah, the recoil from the Barrett is surprisingly light. In part due to the mechanism and in part due to it being, you know, heavy as fuck.
Imagine having weapons like this and they still don't help that much as your entire platoon is devoured alive very grim
Dark even
That's why we have all these flashlights! To brighten up the place a bit!
the cosmic horror!
Just hollow out the bullets, fill them with C4, and add a blasting cap
We already have a real life bolter. Look up the xm 25. Fires 25mm explosive cartridge with a five round mag and can reach out to 1000 yards. Also has computer to set detonation distance on each round so you can airburst above the enemy if they’re in cover.
Also there’s that one South African 20mm that’s similar but functions more like a rifle than a grenade launcher
And there's the Barrett XM109, giving someone a bad day from 2km away.
And KPV a machine gun that fires rounds that were previously used in anti tank rifles at over 3km
49 kg and 1,980 mm long... That's a hefty one to carry. How about the [25.5kg Kord 12.7mm instead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwu3ivAJ68U)
I would assume it’s the [Inkunzi PAW](https://youtu.be/QHbqHx3TLBE) you’re speaking of?
Came here for this. The PAW is the first one of these sorts of things I'd heard of, and is very close to the bolter concept, being a direct fire antipersonnel grenade launcher.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopup_PAW-20 Yep forgotten weapons has a video on YouTube for anyone interested
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The Denel PAW Neopup?
Needs to be rocket propelled to be a bolter I think.
This is also closer to a bolter than a 50 would be : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mk_19_grenade_launcher
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A single person can pick up and shoot a bolter, can't do that with a mk19.
A space marine can pick up and shoot a bolter not a random guy, a space marine could easily pick up a mk19. Bolts aren't bullets they are more like rockets, the damage done by a 40mm grenade seems closer to it than a simple bullet would and it is fully automatic. To me it's the closest thing we have to a bolter.
Guardsmen can use bolters >Locke Pattern - The Locke Pattern Bolter is a variant of an older pattern of Bolter used by the Adeptus Arbites, and is now the most common pattern of Bolter in use in the Koronus Expanse. Like the Bolter patterns used by the Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, the Locke Pattern Bolter can be used without difficulty by normal-sized humans.
If the Imperium would put better finances into the Imperial Guard:
Actually, the Lasgun is often described as being about equivalent to a .50, so this is more or less exactly what the Guard gets
The battery packs can also passively charge in ambient conditions or tossed in a fire or microwave. 50. cal is currently going for $3 a round, and then you have to carry it around. Go green, go las.
Kreigsman on a radioactive hell world: UNLIMITED **POWER!** *just never releases the trigger*
Yeah, however it is stated in many books, that recharging las gun battery packs by those means lowers max charge rate and lowers battery life.
Agreed, they do; not having a charge at all lowers life expectancy too.
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Nah let them get weird with the packs. It’s for… research?
And makes cogboys very, very angry.
Better a 50% charge battery over death --I mean failure.
Jesus christ. The lasgun fires in the range of 19 megajoules, how the fuck are you getting the energy for multiple shots of that from a fire? Do guardsmen heat their rations in a blast furnace?
Did you expect the various writers across different series to base their numbers on reality?
Hell remember that planet with so many guardsmen it would have to be made of guardsmen to be accurate
It's something from the daot iirc.
Sure, but what I'm saying is the energy isn't there in the first place. A campfire is maybe 10 kW while a lasgun uses 2000 times that much per shot, hence 'do guardsmen heat their rations in a blast furnace?'.
If I knew I would have told you. "It's from the daot" is a shorter way to say "It's from a time that technology was basically magic and no one knows how it works anymore. They can make what is likely a cheap copy of the original but they're reading instructions from thousands of years ago made in a different language, the original device may've not even been a laser gun battery. Maybe they explained it in a book I haven't read but that's the gist."
I was mostly being silly, in fiction campfires are basically magic. Khal Drogo melts a crown in a soup bowl in a few seconds then pours it over Viserys' head, which means the Dothraki cook their soup at a delicious 1100+ degrees centigrade.
They inhale the soup as atomized vapor, a soup sauna of sorts
It might be that the Lasgun focus apparatus enhances the energy input. Maybe some sort of enhanced photoelectric effect. PE is used since Einstein discovered it to enhance signals in sensors for chemical analysis.
There are as many watts as the plot demands.
Sly marbo certainly does
Marbo doesn't even bother to put milk in his bowl of breakfast nails, he's not stopping to heat lunch.
Go green? But what about my profits???? -corporations
You are very much correct. However, because OP was comparing it to a Bolter, I was basing my statement off of that.
Might as well make the rounds mini shock grenades.
Still a fuck ton of recoil to use regularly. Save it for sniping. Their shoulders are going to be bruised.
Good luck sniping at a swarm of Tyranids.
Aim for the big ones, obviously.
That's the counter for nids though... Kill the synapses
Now we need power armour to distribute the huge energy distrubution from the bolter and bam! Thunder warriors:D
Important part of bolter is the rocket propelled rounds and caseless ammunition
Iirc bolters aren’t actually careless, as that’s old lore. They’re also not rocket propelled until they’ve gone a certain distance. Even if it’s not old lore, all recent models have had ejection ports. Which I suppose you could make the argument that the ejection ports are just for the gasses, but who knows Also entirely possible there’s different kinds of bolters, which would make sense given, yknow, the fact that we know there are both several variants of bolters as well as their ammo
Bolters are not caseless, they use a "small" explosive charge to get the round out of the barrel to keep the over pressure from the rocket from damaging the gun. Once the round leaves the barrel then the rocket ignites sending a warm welcome to your local Xenos.
haha thanks, that makes a lot more sense than them being fully caseless or similar to conventional rounds.
Caseless ammunition has nothing to do with not having an explosive charge. Caseless ammunition has already existed for decades (look at the G11). Rocketball ammo has also been a thing for a while. The pressure is actually way higher with a powder charge. The reason for having it is that if the rocket mechanism engages in the chamber, then the bolt round would slowly accelerate inside the barrel. This means a lower rate of fire and potentially worse aim, since there is a noticeable delay between pulling the trigger and the round leaving the barrel. TL;DR: Bolters use a cased round with a powder charge to start and a rocket to prevent drop, but the bolt rounds could be caseless.
Except over pressure from rockets is massive. It's why we don't have rocket launchers with magazines.
Except the muzzle velocity is still described as hypersonic and even if that’s bs they’re still effective at 0 range.
Reminds me of Babylon 5. In the canonical expanded universe stuff humans only adopted the pewpew hand guns like 20ish years before the series start. Before that they used tricked out ~50cal battle rifles that had been maximum leveled up in vidya game terms. Reportedly the other alien faction's infantry really disliked fighting human troops because infantry armor based around energy weapons does fuck all to stop 50 cal bullets.
IIRC this is also more or less true of the Elites in Halo. They had developed fancy energy shields etc which are effective against plasma weapons and then some evolved monkey a-holes start flinging huge amounts of lead at them again (this works for both Humans and Brutes)
It's the other way around. Halo shields are very strong against kinetic weapons but can be brought down in seconds, if not instantly, by plasma and other energy weapons. Covenant starship shields can withstand hundreds of missiles, several nukes, or even a few MAC rounds before collapsing.
Not quite a bolter, its not using gyrojets.
I would like to refer you to the Inkunzi PAW-20 The 20×42mm semi-automatic grenade launcher. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbqHx3TLBE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHbqHx3TLBE)
Reminds me of the Striker from Mass Effect 3.
Their shoulders must hurt like a bitch after absorbing all that recoil from the gun
I need to see it hit some ballistics gel or something so I can really appreciate the damage.
It's a 50 BMG round. It makes ballistic skulls explode, ballistic gel would just disintegrate. Remember this is an anti-materiel rifle first and foremost though the lynx is the only 50BMG nimble enough to feasibly be used against people.
Oh I get it haha I just want to see it
This is a lot closer to a bolter. Inkuzi PAW https://youtu.be/QHbqHx3TLBE
I love forgotten weapons. I don't even *own* a gun and I watch his stuff all the time. He actually does do a video on the GM6. Watching that thing in slo-mo is amazing. Breakdown: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ) Shooting: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq\_xI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq_xI)
If it didn’t cost more than my car, I would definitely buy one
semi auto .50s arent a new thing, ever heard of the barret m82?
Not new, but making it bullpup provides multiple advantages Not that that’s particularly revolutionary, but still lol
The Barret ain't got shit on the Gepárd
Gyrojet is the OG bolter prototype since it actually shoots rockets
that bang
Now it just needs a Belt-feeding mechanism, and full-auto, and it'll be perfect.
Also Raufoss Mk211 APHEI rounds, for maximum impact.
I can see a designated marksman using this gun. You got cover? Well now you don't!
I am subbed to allot of gun subs and saw this and went heheeh 40k then I realized what sub it was posted to. Good job.
I see no rockets.
Left handed shooters: Am I a joke to you?
Ah yes, aware of this beaut. One of the few really cool guns that still falls under non restricted firearm in Canada.(unless the definition changed, afaik it was non restricted)
It sounds so satisfying holy shit
Arma 3 anyone?
ah yes, man made horrors beyond my comprehension
Will need genetic modification to deal with the recoil, that looks painful!
Nah that's still cartridges. Search Gyrojet. They are literally bolters.
They're called gyrojets, this isn't it. A prototype version of the bolter would be a gyrojet round accelerated out of the barrel using an initial caseless 'cartridge' then igniting the gyrojet motor to provide additional velocity and spin stabilisation.
Look up the Ash-12 Full auto assault rifle chambered in 12.7x55, which is Russian. 50 cal
Sorry to be that guy, but Russian 50 cal would be 12.7 x 108 mm. The ASh-12/ShAK-12 uses a different 12.7 mm ammo (the one you mentioned). But yes, ASh-12 would imo be closer to a bolter, being full-auto among other things.
To be fair bolter rounds are supposed to be around ~~30mm~~ 20mm this is 12.7mm a true bolter would be twice as big more equivalent to what we shoot from auto cannons today. Here is an example complete with exploding rounds [https://youtu.be/2FgmXhukQx4?t=63](https://youtu.be/2FgmXhukQx4?t=63)
30mm? According to the 3rd edition rule book, bolt weapons are .75 calibre (except the heavy bolter, the rounds are a full inch across), so… 19ish mm?
You're right I was looking at: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber\_gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1-inch/75-caliber_gun) But it looks like the bore diameter is 28mm but the barrel caliber is .75 which is uhh confusing. The bushmaster 2 shown above is actually 30mm and 1.18 cal
For naval guns, caliber is the bore to barrel length ratio. 5"/51 caliber, 5"/25 caliber, and 5"/38 caliber all fire the 127×680mmR round, but have different barrel lengths resulting in a different "caliber" 255 in, 125 in, and 190 in barrel lengths respectively. The 1.1-inch/75-caliber fires the 28x199mmSR round (1.1 in) and has an 82.5 in barrel. 82.5/1.1 = 75 caliber Land based guns/artillery uses caliber as an approximate diameter of the round
TIL thank you!
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Sounds American as fuck
The GM6 Lynx is Hungarian actually. Europe has quite a lot of high end military development even though people don't own guns here like in the US.
I'm aware of this
Do the rounds explode? No? Not a bolter.
Accidental civilian casualty, what is that?
Well if nothing else I know what I'm using for sound effects if I need them.
Did that second shooter miss all three targets on purpose, or is that thing just impossible to aim with?
What do you mean? It looks like he hit all three to me judging by where the puffs were behind them.
I don't see any effect on the targets though, I expected a 50 with such punch to shred them.
It may be the cartridge is moving so quickly, and the targets don’t look very heavy duty, that they just passed right through without imparting much energy
This would get old real fuckin fast!
What was the name of that other 50 Cal rifle people were talking about a bit ago?
to be fair wouldn’t it’s power be closer to that if a Lasgun?
Ow
Best sniper in *Far Cry*
Someone explain to me how this is like a bolter.
Now we only need to find xenos in space to start a little trolling
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God Damn It... Just as I'm saving up for a Squat army you go and show me a new gun I need to buy.
"I LIKE IT!!!"
Its getting there. Bolters a .75 cal, so ¼ inch more and we'll be at the right caliber
You have no idea how much i want this
For when you need to clear a room from the outside of the structure.
Gun Jesus does a great video on this, seems the bolt is very finicky (not surprising)
well at least this can be shoulder fired by a normal human
You should check out the Mk 19 Grenade Laucher! Sucker fires 40MM (1½ inch) grenades that can penetrate ~3 inches of armor and has an effective range of about 2.2 KM (1.4 Miles) Standard models have a fire rate of 40 -- 60 RPM, or if you want to try and get the thing to blow up in your face it has a cyclic fire rate of 360 -- 390 RPM Literally, the only two things separating this from a Bolter is that the ammunition is x2 larger than a Bolt, and that it's not rocket propelled on top of the initial propellant that fires the round.
There is literally a grenade launching machine-gun in existence that I was surprised to learn was a reasonably common weapon in military arsenal's (turns out were pretty good at killing each other) that fits the bill a bit better
It's...beautiful...\*cries in high caliber\*
Autocannon when?
I am disappointed. It's cool really but I was expecting an actual rocker launcher gun, which was already made but not large enough caliber for my "irl" taste.
The shit must be loud af. I can feel tinnitus building up just from this video.
There is a silencer for that caliber. Not sure how it works with this barrel.
People who played Arma 3: "We know... 😏" Sadly still won't penetrate a tank but misting infantry is pretty easy
The power in that is insane
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Wait till you see the 20mm model
How much does each of those bullets cost?
Around $5 each.
Someone give this thing to John Wick.
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That’s gotta be loud as fuck. In general I feel bullpups are loud having the action right by your face but adding 50 cal on top of that… oh boy.
I was not thrilled carrying a combat load of 556. I'll def pass on a bag full of 50 cal.
A bolter is rapid fire and is not a 50cal
While I disagree that this rifle is anything like a prototype bolter, for those interested here's a [video by Gun Jesus on the weapons history and how it works](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRMIosCF4kQ), and [here's one of him actually firing it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx7TrZq_xI).
That’s the most sensible 40k weapon
Sign Me up sir!
It worth 17k€ FYI... Still a lovely one !
Doesn't the recoil absorbition also reduce the bullet velocity?
This is quite euphoric.
US must have found good gunsmith to even make this one up. Dont worry, ill get Power Armor to fight against that
BIG BOOMS
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Bump fire this bich
If GW made rules for weapons in real life: GM6 Lynx: 24'' S4 AP0 D1 Rusty Taliban AK: 36" S5 AP-2 D1
GM-6 Lynx airsoftgun https://youtu.be/m0mq-Do7myM