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?

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