Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-111.68.32.71-20131007122233/@comment-24464090-20140510032647

Arkan421 wrote: 86.121.87.137 wrote: Arkan421 wrote:   As long as the user can handle the sheer amount of recoil and being only able to fire the weapon for a few seconds before running out of ammo. Aside from those problems, it looks great. You lost me…The sketch for the gun form has an extra handle for the left hand to deal with recoil, and it it also comes equipped with an ammo backpack…what more can you want? In real life the US tried to develop a "Microgun", a man portable minigun under the designation of the "GE Six-Pack". The weapon weighed 35.8kg and held 1000 rounds of ammunition in it's backpack. The rate of fire varied from 400 to 4000 rounds a minute, that means on it's lowest setting, it could fire all of it's ammunition in 2.5 seconds if one holds the trigger too long. That's not a very good weapon if you expect to reload your gun during a mission.

That's not even mentioning the amount of recoil the thing creates. Just because handles are added doesn't mean recoil is negated. Hell, the recoil on GAU Avenger on the A-10 is capable of pushing the jet backwards if it isn't flying at the correct speed.

Okay, sure you can just decrease the caliber of the ammunition to reduce recoil and weight, but at the expense of stopping power the bullets have. It's the choice between shooting a tough foe with a few tank rounds, or lots of pistol rounds. What if you had some sort of recoil-redirection system?