i dont personally see that much use in the inconsistent ammo thing im just pointing out it could do that way better than a gas system

It might be able to, but it doesn't matter

sure, so moving on it does away with the gas system and requires less fiddling

ammo is consistent so it takes the exact same time more or less every time to go from ignition to extraction

and you just unlock it at the right time

I've built my own guns, the gas system didn't need any fiddling

you mean like

from scratch?

machine the parts

heat treat

et cetera

most likely they bought a kit

Haven't machined my own, yet

because my understanding is there is generally years of work going into a new design

There's years of work going into a new design regardless

Shaving a bit off of the development timeline isn't that big of a deal

It's more important that the end product adequately meets the requirements

Which typically means some significant benefit over existing standards

It doesn't matter how quickly you can develop something if it isn't any better than what's already on the market

well, you could offer a system that in principle is able to be re-engineered relatively quickly to fire new kinds of ammo

And who has such a requirement?

it wouldnt remove all of the difficulty, but in terms of getting it to time extraction properly it would be easy

what types of ammo are you talking about

like rail gun shit?

potentially a lot of people, things are starting to move a lot faster

no i mean more like

just any change in the ammo characteristics whatsoever

which is currently not so well supported

such as what? aerodynamics?

Because changing the buffer weight on an AR is a massively complex procedure

just different pressure curves is what im referencing, whatever might cause that

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?