Gun question Options

[ravensmuse]

This popped up on Tumblr the other day and it's a great image, probably from one of the recent gun books, yeah?

http://biometal79.deviantart.com/art/My-Sh...tion-1-48801985

I'm trying to figure out what book the Salvastra Penetrator shows up in. It looks nasty, but wasn't in the big list in Arsenal (unless I missed it?).

Thanks!

[Yerameyahu]

'Savalette' is what the page says, not 'Salvastra'?

[Dr.Rockso]

From the dev art page comments:

~squashy82 Aug 31, 2011
is 20 a custom gun you made if not which book is it in I have never seen it before?


~biometal79 Sep 2, 2011
It was a bit inspired by Seburo Anti-Cyborg Weapons by Masamune Shirow. Not in any book.

#20 being the Savalette Penetrator you mentioned.

[Umidori]

This is fan art, if I'm not mistaken, not from any of the books. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

The same artist also has a number of the longarms and heavy weapons in the same style.

~Umi

[Koekepan]

It doesn't actually look like a very sensible design.

Looking at the placement of the parts, it doesn't looke like a bullpup arrangement, so the barrel appears to be less than a foot long. On the other hand the size of the magazine strongly suggests a long action accomodating cartridges with massive case capacity. Unless they are massively downloaded (bad for reliability) when you shoot that thing you'll get a huge fireball and a massive concussion but probably not very impressive muzzle velocity.

For actual penetration of armour you want serious muzzle velocity, and either a fat round which can accomodate its own shaped charges and all that good stuff, or a very high density penetrator (often made of depleted uranium, tungsten or similar).

The whole thing looks a lot more like a personal protection weapon for crew serving heavy equipment. Halve the length of the case, give it a bullpup design, and you'd be a lot closer to sanity.

If you want a close quarters armour piercing system, I'd expect it to be rather narrow round, with a relatively short case (you can only burn so much powder in a short barrel), a bullpup design to squeeze the most barrel length out of the available design length, or maybe a much wider design for using sabot rounds (in which case it will look very different) and a much more upright, less strained position for the wrist as well as evident recoil compensation of some sort.

[Dumori]

This is fan art, if I'm not mistaken, not from any of the books. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

The same artist also has a number of the longarms and heavy weapons in the same style.

~Umi

And a CHUNK more of art for his own RPG game+system