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[andrea]

the molotov cocktail is the poor man's incendiary grenade. We can field the rich man version.

also, I know that you had a nice naming scheme, but doing things that way clutters the list. Better to have one name, then a brief description. As far as I understand ranges in this game, specifying 'this one goes 30m, that one 25m' is not that useful. Close range should be enough, we aren't talking about artillery or big guns , usually fielded against each other and for which the exact range matters in determining the output. Grenades are used at close quarters, in ambushes, trenches, etc.

[Kot]

PFFF, FINE.

Spoiler: 1927 (click to show/hide)

Votes:
Design votes:
AS-G27 grenade family - 5 (andrea, Aseaheru (?), 10ebbor10, Kot, Sheb (?))
HA1927(Mod) - 2 (Quake IV, tryrar)
AS-AR27U - 1 (Andres).
AS-RG27 - 1 (Funk)
AS-R27 - 1 (stabbymcstabstab)
Generic grenades - 1 (Ukrainian Ranger)

Revision votes:
Cheaper AS-MC16 SMG - 2 (andrea, Andres)
IP-R25 (Captured Moskurgian Model 3) - 3 (10ebbor10, Aseaheru, Kot)

Expense credit votes:
Turbocharger revision - 3 (andrea, Andres, Kot)

Proposed Designs:
Grenades:
AS-G27 grenade family - Very simple design consisting of thin steel can filled with explosives and long wooden handle. Grenade is primed by pulling the pin sitting on top of the can. It can be thrown up to 30 meters thanks to it's design, or dismounted from the handle and used in bobby-traps. The basic one is designated AS-G27(C), which stands for concussive. Design also considers addition of fragmentation shield that can be put around the regular grenade, incendiary, smoke and anti-tank versions, marked (F), (I), (S) and (AT) respectively. Anti-tank version is noticeably bigger and heavier which makes it harder to use.
AS-IG27(V1) - OUR NEWEST AND MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY! BRILLIANT SCIENCISTS OF ARSTOTZKAN MAN-PROPELLED WEAPONRY INSTITUTE PRESENT YOU THE AS-V1! IT IS A SPECIALLY DESIGNED (found in dumpster) GLASS BOTTLE FILLED WITH MOST POWERFUL INCENDIARY FUEL (100% Vodka, the one we use in our engines) HUMANITY EVER CREATED WITH SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE DETONATION SYSTEM (old socks and matchbox)! YOU CAN USE IT TO KILL MOSKBURGIANS. OR THEIR TANKS. OR PLANES. GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA (this is a Molotov coctail for people unfamiliar with propaganda)!

Assault Rifles:
AR-AR27 - The AS-AR27 is an assault rifle meant to chamber the 7.76mm round. Its maximum cost is 3 Ore, including the use of aluminium.
AS-AR27(Mod) - The AS-AR27 is an assault rifle meant to chamber the  7.62 round. Its maximum cost is 3 Ore, including the use of aluminium.
AS-AR27(U) - Create full automatic rifle using new 6*36mm rounds. It should be easy to handle, not complex to produce, reliable, rugged weapon. Use aluminium for anything but barrel and fire mechanism (but 2 ore max).

Other AT weapons
AS-RR-AT27 - A rifled barrel designed to fire a 50mm shell and to be man portable. Use of aluminium allowed to make it lighter if possible. It is intended to act as an anti-tank weapon at least at medium range, therefore efforts are made into researching Anti tank shells.
AS-RG27 - A simple Shoot-through type rifle grenade. Impact detained with a choice of fragmentation and high explosive.

Man Portable Rocket Launchers
AS-RPG27 - Litle more than a pipe with a triggering mechanism, this reloadable device launches a 80mm rocket out of one end of the tube at armored vehicles. This rocket contains a new shaped charge warhead that is much better a penetrating armor than traditional HE warheads.
AS-RPG27(Mod) - The AS-RPG27 is a rocket launcher that fires 50mm rockets. It's a reloadable device that comes with shaped AT rockets and shrapnel rockets (tech gained from our landmines).
AS-MAT27 - A re-loadable, man-portable AT weapon that consists of a 80mm shaped charge propelled by a should fired spigot mortar. it should be able to generally hit a tank or armored vehicle at 100m with decent accuracy and has the option for HE warheads for direct-fire against infantry.
AS-RAT27 - AS-RAT27 is 88 mm calibre reusable multi-purpose rocket launcher. It consist of 2 meter long aluminium tube with simple ignition device. It's light enough to be carried by one man, even if it's quite unwieldy, it can also be mounted on small two whelled carriage for better accuracy, or even combined together and placed on vehicle or carriage for use as multiple rocket launcher system. Maximum range is around 750m. It utilizes Flare, HE, HEAT, and Incendiary rockets.

Rocket Artillery
AS-RA27(H) - 30-rail rocket launcher system mounted on a towed carriage or truck. Ammunition is 80mm wide and 2 meters long, with warhead weighting 3,5 kg, capable of being either incendiary, regular HE, or flare.
AS-R27 - Mobile, multiple rocket launcher system intended to provide heavy, mobile artillery support. It consist of a rack of 10 double rails on which 12 cm rockets are fixed. The system can be mounted on trains or used as fied artillery piece, but its main intended use is to be mounted on our truck.

Regular Artillery
AS-HA1927 - The HA1927 is a large, heavy 130mm artillery piece for long range, heavy bombardment mounted on a new 4 wheeled carraige that allows a wide traverse. It has hydropneumatic recoil and is deployed by cranked down 6 heavy supporting jacks to lift the wheels off the ground.
AS-HA1927(Mod) - The HA1927 is a large, heavy 130mm artillery piece for long range, heavy bombardment mounted on a new 4 wheeled carraige that allows a wide traverse. It has hydropneumatic recoil and is deployed by cranked down 6 heavy supporting jacks to lift the wheels off the ground.  Features our advanced new muzzle brakes.
Vehicles
AS-1926-ICFV-AL - A fast Armored personnel carrier, armed with our recently designed machine gun. Armored with spaced light aluminum armor  , and powered with a simplified fuel injection engine, it can carry a small squad of soldiers (including driver) to combat lines at appreciable speeds. Tracked for decent all terrain performance.

Planes:
AS-FI27 - AS-FI27 is a small, high wing monoplane 2-seater liason aircraft, capable of carrying another 4 people in cargo compartment. Only it's frame is built out of metal, the rest is made of cloth and wood. It uses 9 cylinder engine, similar to the one used in AS-DB-HF-23, but upgraded with lastest technology. It's only weapon is AS-1924 machine gun mounted behind crew cabin.The plane is capable of extremly short takeoff and landing, 60m and 20m respectively. The plane can be used as officer (spy) transport, air ambulance, light cargo delivery and battlefield reconnaissance, but suffers greatly from lack of radio.

Assorted ideas:
Rocket pistol.
More landmines.
Rifle grenades.
More ARs
More artillery.
Rocket artillery.
Sniper rifles.
Jungle boat
Flying boat bombers.
Handheld AT weapons (RPGs, AT Rifles).
Autogyros.
MAGNETIC MINES.

Edits. Also put it into spoiler, so I could make it more eye-rapey. Proably going to add even more info, though right now I may finally check who voted on what before. Merged my grenades into one family. I'm also going to use (Mod) suffix to indicate that this is just a minor change to already proposed design, this shouldn't go into the actual name.
EDIT:
Oh my God-Emperor, the search engine is horrible, horrible thing.
EDIT2:
I think I've got everyones votes now. Grenades win so far.

[andrea]

AS-MAT26-50 is the tank destroyed we designed last turn, remove it from the list.

the grenades are now far less spammish, I am going to vote for them ( although I still think all those designations are a bit useless in the context, but they are suitable for flavor).
I still would rather get an RPG, but I don't see it  getting enough votes and this could be a precursor.

Grenades. ( oh, if grenades prove trivial to the engineers and they meet all the goals early, tell them to find a way to deliver them as well. Anything from a big slingshot to a ballistic missile goes)

[Andres]

The grenade idea is an acceptable one. The artillery idea is not. I really can't believe you guys nearly voted for one when we have no immediate need for a new design. Their new artillery just hasn't proven to give them a substantial advantage, not like their tanks or their small arms.

Priority of votes (first, highest): AS-AR27U, AS-RPG7-50, grenades (anti-tank, anti-personnel, Molotov cocktail).

Glory to Arstotzka.

[Kot]

AS-MAT26-50 is the tank destroyed we designed last turn, remove it from the list.

Uh, well. I removed it now, it was on Aseaheru list but sorry for confusion anyways.

the grenades are now far less spammish, I am going to vote for them ( although I still think all those designations are a bit useless in the context, but they are suitable for flavor).

Flavour is love, flavour is life.
Also I added more votes, based on what people voted or proposed last. Also links to their respective posts, in case we need something cleared up or they add more conditions.

[Aseaheru]

 The AS-MAT26-50 is not on my list, the AS-MAT27 (The PIAT 15 ahead of schedule) is.

[10ebbor10]

I will vote for the grenades, hoping that we won't see a repeat of the mine problem.

[andrea]

what mine problem? not being enough?creating only one version?

actually , it seems from descriptions that the mine is helping, although not a game changer. Still, grenades do a lot for our close quarters combat, a field in which we are lacking. We can only hope.

grenades seem to be winning. Nice. I would prefer a good delivery method as well, but as far as compromises go, this is not bad.

[Kot]

The AS-MAT26-50 is not on my list, the AS-MAT27 (The PIAT 15 ahead of schedule) is.

Oh, derp.
You're actually right. I have no idea from where the destroyer got then, very sorry.
EDIT: Grenades are wining by three votes. I guess we know what will win.

[10ebbor10]

what mine problem? not being enough?creating only one version?

We had 3 or four variants lined up. Got one. It isn't bad, but it's no game changer.

[Andres]

For Revision, we'll want to either cheapen the SMG (yes, I know) or cheapen the turbocharger on our tank. Where we don't cheapen one with Revision, we'll cheapen it with the Expense credit.

Getting the tank cheaper one way or the other is necessary to continue pushing in the Desert. My guess is they'll do the same with their tank so they can push ours. Getting a cheaper tank will also give us an edge in the Jungle, letting us use our motorcycles and cars for increased mobility by paving the way for them.

A cheap SMG combined with grenades would ensure we at least don't lose ground and we might even gain ground. On their own it might not be enough to beat off their combination of cheap SMGs, assault rifles, and GMPGs assuming they Design/Revise something to help them in the Jungle.

I think we should use the Revision phase on the SMG. The SMG is less important than the tank and Revision has a chance of failure, unlike Expense credits. It's necessary that we get cheaper tanks so we'll need to use our Expense credit on it.

Glory to Arstotzka.

[andrea]

well, ebbor, that is a matter of luck. We surely have designed more complex things in one design phase ( like, the tank. a new gun, muzzle brake, turret, turbocharger, RHA). No mechanical reason we can't get more than one kind of grenade.

Andres, I like your analysis on the revision and expense credit. That is a plan I am willing to support. Although it means that radio will be beyond our grasp for a while still... we are hitting the point in which it simply is ridiculous to still communicate with motorcycles and flags or something. But tank and SMG are needed here and now.

[Kot]

I approve too. We can never have enough SMGs enough radios (I totally want IP designation in use), and cheaper turbocharges can be used on more things. I will add this to the list somehow.

[Aseaheru]

 For revision we want to take our newly acquired radio and make it so we can use it.

[10ebbor10]

I must firmly propose we revise the radio Huge advantage, we finally got it, and it'll be a serious waste to simply let it lie around for another small and incremental improvement to our existing capabilities.

Radio allows a smaller force to outnumber a local force.