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02-08-2020, 10:31 AM | #12 |
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Re: [Ultra-Tech] ergonomic paradigms for sidearms, smallarms, and body armour
Salamis are thicker than 15mm.
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Mod note: I moved a bunch of posts about homing rounds into their own thread so that discussion could continue without derailing from the original post.
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Thank you.
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02-08-2020, 05:15 PM | #17 |
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Well, a single shot 15mm gyroc fits in a pocket, and if a 25mm micro missile launcher existed, it would probably fit too.
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I presume that when and if it comes to the point of presenting the weapon to fire everyone wishes that they had something at least as big and capable as a standard infantry small-arm or at least a full-size service pistol (or whatever near equivalent they can handle). But there are a lot of circumstances in which people choose to carry or wear rather less gun than the heaviest iron they can handle. James Bond carried that ridiculous Beretta .25 under his dinner jacket despite the fact that he was perfectly capable of handling the mysterious “long-barrelled Colt Army Special .45” that he kept under the dashboard of his 1932 Bentley. When M and Major Boothroyd made him swap the mouse gun for a Walther PPK that was not because a 7.65 ACP out of an 83 mm barrel produced all the recoil Bond could handle. It is very often the ergonomics of carrying a smallarm or of wearing a sidearm that determine people's choice of, say, a carbine, SMG, or PDW instead of a rifle, or their choice of a Walther PP or PPK over a P-38. Sure, the issues of weight, bulk, handling, and concealment are in fact continuous. It's just that for gaming purposes I would prefer a granular system of discrete categories to a morass of continuous variables even if then algebra is simple.
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Another point (which is coming up in the discussion of small-arms, too) is that the future prevalence exoskeletons to bear heavy armour and carry heavy small-arms may introduce a new ergonomic paradigm for battlefield infantry, assault police, and armed guards: armour for wearing on a combat exoskeleton. Let's try to cobble together a list of user cases for body armour. We have
Are there more? Are 3 and 4 the same?
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