Type-1A/b Automatic Weapon By Imperator-Zor Watch

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The Type-1A Automatic Weapon is the first rapid fire firearm devised for service in the Infrastructural Military. The first prototypes were made in 17IA alongside 4 other designs, though more than a year of testing was done before production began in the winter of 19IA with 25 weapons ordered. These weapons were employed on several occasions, including in the taking of the Black Ports. While they were effective against warlords, they were maintenance intensive, tended to foul rapidly and was unnecessarily heavy. The Type-1A/b was a general refinement, more expensive and labor intensive to produce but considerably more reliable and 7 kilograms lighter, notably by introducing an improved cooling system.



The Type-1A was made possible thanks to the advent of metallic cases. It fires 11mm ammunition at 400 rounds per minute and has a maximum range of 1,200 meters. The Type-1A/b weighs 22.5 kilograms unloaded and is is intended for either a carriage, tripod or fixed mount, not to be fired by a man holding it. It feeds through a top mounted 35 round magazine. An experimental 144 round pan magazine was devised for the Type-1A/a, but this was deemed too unreliable in field conditions and made inviable by the new magazine release lever. As a matter of practice, a Type-1A/b weapon would need to be cleaned after firing about 200 rounds due to fowling and it quickly produces allot of obscuring smoke. It is gas operated to simplify construction. The Type-1A/b is still fairly expensive and labor intensive to make and there is a bottleneck in ammunition production. As such production would be limited to a few (2 to 5) units per month for the next decade.

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