Message from @Paladin308
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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
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
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