King David Rifled Musket
This is a long-needed update to the venerable Imperial Musket, named for the greatest King of the Empire.
Its main feature is a rifled barrel, which stabilizes the bullet by spinning it. Where a musket could fire out to 140-280 arshin at most, the rifling could make the rifled musket hit to almost 850 arshin.
Previously, such muskets suffered from two issues: One is that the blackpowder residue makes the rifling far less effective after a few shots, the other is that reloading is far slower since the ball has to be wrapped in leather patches and jammed into the barrel to make it grip the rifling. The same invention solves both: The Minnié ball, which our observers have seen used during the Crimean war. It is a metal bullet with a calibre of six line with a conical hollow at the end and grease-filled grooves around it. On being fired, it expands, gripping the rifling and cleaning it from the blackpowder residue at the same time. It comes in a paper cartridge, which is ripped open, the contained blackpowder poured into the barrel then rammed down. The bullet is dropped down afterwards. The rifle is then ready to fire. Well-trained veterans can manage five bullets per minute, but a more realistic rate of fire is three per minute.
Of course, the rifled musket also features the standards established with the Imperial Musket: A percussion lock ensures reliable operation, and a ring bayonet mount for close combat.
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King David Rifled Musket
This rifled musket utilizes a conical bullet akin to the Minié ball reported to be utilized by Western European powers in the Crimean War, at a caliber of
six line. It utilizes a percussion lock and has an ability to mount a modified Imperial Bayonet. The range and accuracy are improved compared to the Imperial Musket, with an effective range of
630 arshin,
315 arshin longer than the Imperial Musket. However, the weapon can occasionally get jammed by the bullet not going down the barrel properly, rendering the rifle largely useless without a way to clear the jam. To prevent this, soldiers armed with the weapon are trained to be careful when loading the bullet, rendering the rifle to have a slightly lower rate of fire than the Imperial Musket, at an average rate of 1.2 per minute. The extra work required for the rifling also makes this weapon slightly more costly, and the process itself is complex.
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A meeting has been called between the Engineers and the Generals in the primary thread. Establish how you are going to present the design and who will present it here, then have the chosen individual present the weapon to the Generals in the main thread. I would rather you don't just copy-paste the above description into the main thread and instead consider this as creating a piece of propaganda. Essentially, emphasize the good parts and downplay the bad. Feel free to roleplay the presentation out, and the responses of the engineer you are to any questions they ask. Could be a bit of fun replicating a dialogue similar to what was done in the Pentagon Wars with the design of the Bradley.
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Topic: Weapons Design Corps of the Georgian Empire (Update Phase) (Read 4672 times)