could potentially help with that as well if it did have some kind of pressure reactive system

6.8 6.5, .300, 7mm, there's a new meme calibre that the army is *totally* going to adopt every week

for instance you can electronically detect stresses in metal

so you could potentially react to pressure purely off of strain on the bolt

then drive extraction off of that

mind you

afaik the cases are more the problem

than the same amount of powder in every cartridge

hence referencing the bolt

it's a variety of reasons

once the cartridge is coming out with the right force it could start letting the extraction go

so if its stuck then it would start extracting sooner

this is probably oversimplifying im just saying there are things you can do electronically you cant do mechanically

There are, but the question is do they matter

you can do fairly simple and robust things instead of over complicated whizbang bullshit that a lot of companies try to do

are those advantages worth the cost of implementing that

well it depends mainly on the cost of implementing it

that would be a major factor

and how long would the R&D process take

Which is high, regardless of what it is, because it requires redesigning the existing systems developed around the existing standards

R&D is not even the most significant cost

yeah but i mean past a certain point your argument against attempting innovation breaks down

if it actually worked out well

then you could potentially have people with guns that have much cheaper ammo

If it provides some significant benefit them it's worth the cost

and then you are going up against people with vehicle mounted miniguns because they can now easily do that

I think it would just be better to invent a new weapon instead of trying to rework something that is already being used

Cost isn't the significant factor with ammo on that scale

Weight is

and then improve upon the new creation

its guna be a while before powder gets outdone in terms of impulse energy generation

I mean we already use non-powder weps in the military

in terms of cost vs benefit anyhow

well i mean for small arms

afaik thats still mainly smokeless powder of some form

yeah I was gonna say at least stationary ones

but I'm sure they are working for portable versions

shit

they probably already have em

and we don't know about it lol

eh yeah but i mean