hey i want a new gun from you guys that shoots this new bullet

ok we will start making the new barrels which is now the only hard part

like how the army wants to go to a 6.8mm gpmg

what do you believe bringing electronic guns to the market would improve upon exactly? guns today are pretty straightforward. I feel like adding electricity to the mix would make things way too complicated and allow for more faults

only if you were an asshole with it, which most engineers i know would be

most of them are not practically minded people

You want to re-engineer the AR to fire some new whiz bang cartridge? Sure thing, takes a new barrel, maybe a new bolt and feed system

then why do they generally buy a whole new gun

who

people?

i mean except for like very special purpose stuff they seem to want new stuff

Because they're buying something for a specific purpose

army

because it's easier to just replace inventory than it is to modify existing inventory flawlessly

if you want like 200 guns that fire your new SOCOM ammo they tend to repurpose existing actions but in terms of like service stuff they seem to generally want new stuff

Calibre conversions are a meme

yes and then they go through a whole new procurement process which is a lot of hassle

Big organizations generally don't bother

i think you could be more agile if you involved electronics because there would be less tuning involved to get it to run right

Tuning is not the problem

The gun is not the problem

how would they prevent something like an EMP from shutting down their guns

Logistics are the problem

if it's electric, all the enemy would have to do is localize electronic pulses to render them useless

You're trying to solve a logistics problem with a new design, that doesn't work

potentially, i mean you could cage off the little computer and make it with extra thick traces

military grade microcontrollers already exist

it wouldnt be some new alien thing

would the guns fire conventional ammo?

or would the electrical components replace the ammunition

They don't get new cartridges, because they've got existing stockpiles and systems designed around the existing systems

im talking mainly about conventional ammo

with electronics involved

The gun is a minor part of the system

paladin they are currently trying to adopt new ammunition

I'm just not sure that would be advantageous because it's adding another point of failure

They've been doing that for decades

ill agree the ammo is usually harder to make than the gun

if the electronic components were to replace the conventional ammo with a new type that was revolutionary, that would be a reason to adopt it

it tends to need to be extremely finely toleranced in its own right

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