| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Questions of great importance (Steve, Jon, RA:S people |
| Date: | Tue, 07 Sep 1999 08:26:41 -0400 |
>>>take a bit of a beating) with an underbarrel grenade launcher. I was
>> Not really, IMHO. I can't see many snipers being keen on the idea.
>Why not?
Becuase there are questions about how the barrel would be stressed.
Anything touching the barrel changes the harmonics of the barrel, and
usually not for the better. Anything placing a downward pull, as many
grenade launcher mounts with weight (ie, the launcher and a shell) on them
do, can effect your point of impact by pulling your muzzle down.
However, if the barrel was in a tubular free-float, as you would do with
an AR-15/M-16, Stoner SR-25 or Armalite AR-10 (the last two are AR-15s on
steroids and built for 7.62NATO class rounds), you could design a mount
that works off the tube. And it has been done by a couple of outfits, and
IIRC some of either Maimi PD or Dade County's SWAT snipers use that very
combo for certain applications (rifle for direct applications, tear gas,
smoke and flash-bangs for less direct actions, is my guess). You would
want to go with a long leged bipod that is mounted on the sides of the
forearm tube, similiar to the WA-2000 or the FAMAS, but that would be
easily enough done.
Problem is, this works only for one family of rifles. You couldn't do
this with say a PSG-1, much less any bolt action. And for most
applications, why would you want to? I can see building bigger versions of
most carbines (ie SR-25 to the M-16) in SR, especially for bigger guys
(orks, trolls, the guy who starts his bench press reps with an engine
block), and fitting them with grenade launchers, though.
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
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