ALIENS WEAPONS:

PISTOLS:
VP70: Cal: 9mmP. MAG: 18. RNG: 50m. Wt: 820g (28.9 oz).
M4A3: Cal: 9mmP. MAG: 12. RNG: 50m. Wt: 0.95Kg (loaded).

SNIPER RIFLE (bull-pup configuration):

M42A Scope Rifle: Cal: 10x28mm caseless. MAG: 15. RNG: 3,800m. Wt: 4.26Kg (loaded).
Flash suppressor or muzzle break available for long range shooting.
M252 HEAP round: 2,950m.
Looks similar to the Walther 2000 (WA2000).

M41A Pulse Rifle: Wt: 3.2Kg. Mag (100 rounds): 1.5Kg. Sling: 0.2Kg. Total: 4.9Kg. Cal: 10mmx24mm.
RNG: 500m. RoF: 900RPM.
The ammunition comprises of a 210 grain (13.6 gram) projectile embedded within a rectangular caseless propellant
block of Nitramine 50.
The propellant content is small but highly efficient, generating muzzle velocities on the order of 840 metres per second.
The round is steel-jacketed and explosive tipped, with impact fusing which is preset during manufacture.
The round is designed to penetrate the armour, exploding just after impact to inflict lethal internal damage.

The standard M41 ammunition clip will hold up to 99 M309 rounds in a ‘U’ bend conveyor, which feeds the rounds
mechanically into the rotating breech mechanism.
However, in practice the clips are only filled to 95% capacity in order to reduce the autoloader’s tendency to jam.

The M41 uses electronic pulse action to fire, controlled directly by the trigger.
The internal mechanism, including the rotating breech, is mounted on free-floating rails within a carbon-fibre jacket.
This assembly is recoil-dampened to reduce the effects of muzzle climb during burst and full automatic fire.
From the thumb selector, the weapon can be set to selective, four-round burst, or full automatic fire, the latter allowing
a rate of fire up to the weapon’s cyclic rate of of 900 rpm.

A manual cocking handle situated in the upper receiver allows the operator to clear the breech in the event of a
stoppage, or to check the chamber prior to stowage.
An LED situated just below the receiver indicates the ammunition remaining in the clip.
This display can be dimmed for night operations.
Electrical power for the gun’s motor mechanism is provided by a Lithium battery in the carrying handle.
This battery is good for 10,000 rounds and can be recharged either by a rifle rack or portable power clip.

The underslung 30mm grenade launcher comprises a barrel, breech and a four round internal magazine which is
charged by hand-loading individual grenade cartridges into the mechanism.
A pump action is used to load rounds into the breech and cock the firing mechanism.
Once loaded, the launcher is primed to fire from a trigger positioned just in front of the magazine housing, which is
used as a handgrip when firing a grenade.
The most commonly used round for the grenade launcher is the M40 High Explosive Fragmentation (HE Frag) marked
with a red plastic cap.
It has a muzzle velocity of 87 m/s (metres per second), an effective range of 400m and an accurate range of 180m/s.
When the round explodes, it spreads more than 300 fragments over a casualty radius of 5 metres (16ft).
The M40 can be employed as an ad-hoc hand grenade by flipping off the plastic cap and twisting the nose cap
clockwise; this gives a 5 second delay before the grenade explodes.
Care must be taken not to strike or depress the nose cap, or the grenade will go off immediately.
OTHER GRENADE LAUNCHER ROUNDS:
M38 High Explosive Armour Piercing (HEAP): Capable of penetrating 7cm of homogeneous steel, the round bursts
with a casualty radius of 5m. The round is marked with a green cap.

M51A Bounding Fragmentation: Is a blue-capped round that is not point detonating like the M38 or M40.
When the round impacts, a small round propels it 2 metres into the air, where it airbursts for additional effect against
troops in the open or in foxholes without overhead cover.

M108 Canister (Buckshot) round: Essentially a large shotgun round with a range of 30 metres.
This small cartridge with a with a flat, black nose give the user effective firepower for close-in engagements.

M60 White Phosphorous Incendiary round: A white-capped round containing a filler of white phosphorous which
spreads up to 15 metres after impact, creates a rising smoke cloud and flame and a secondary incendiary effect against
vegetation and material.
M240 Flamer: RNG: 30m. Wt: 2.7Kg (full). Length: 88cm.
A full reservoir will give a full burst for 20 seconds.
A valve at the rear of the incinerator is used to refuel the weapon; alternatively, the reservoir can be screwed off and
refilled or replaced separately.
A twist-valve on the flamethrower regulates the fuel flow and a thumb switch on the handgrip electrically ignites the
nozzle burner when depressed.
The weapon is fired by squeezing the handgrip trigger, and will continue firing until the trigger is released.