Well, with contracts up, do yall think it might be worth it to revise the rifle to allow for volley sights for Ira or designing a machinegun for Vostoy? We have just enough to do either.
A revision of the SR-6-10, the Ira pattern has four goals: First, to make the rifle cheaper overall. Second, to address any shortcomings brought to light from the trials it has been submitted to(which appears to be over-complicated sights and the stripper clips being a tad unwieldy). Third, to have the tower sights be folding, to reduce chances of them breaking. And finally, Fourth, to add volley sights as per Ira's tender.
The AG-6(also known as the Autogun) is designed to dish out our 6x50mm round in job lots. Piston-operated and belt-fed from a contained spool(using a metal belt that adds to cost but improves reliability, and drawing rounds back out of the belt and then down to the breach), the autogun is designed to be truly man-portable while maintaining a traditional rifle-style layout and yet it is also designed to be capable of almost anything a Maxim can by dint of the provisions for tripod mounting, a side rail designed for mounting a volley sight(or nearly anything else, really) and quick-change barrels designed to take no longer to replace than it takes to reload. An integrated bipod capable of being positioned at either the gas block or the trunnion and large diameter folding tower sights graduated out to 800m bring the feature list almost to a close, the final feature is a bit of an oddity: provisions for mounting the same bayonet as the SR-6-10.
Maximum weight is to be under 10kg and should be more along the lines of 8kg; cost should be less than 45 and more along the lines of 35-ish.
Damn ninja. Our barrel is under-length? Given we designed the cartrage for the gun, thats silly. Also, changing the magazine, barrel, sights, furniture and stripper clips is probably a good way to not have it be a revision, we need 50% parts commonality.