Weapon Type: Assault Rifle Manufacturer: Kogyo Industries Operation: Semi or full auto Weight (w/o magazine): 3.5 kg Weight (11 5-round magazine): .7 kg Weight (30-round magazine): 1 kg Length: 102 cm Caliber: 7.5 mm Type of Fire: Selective: single shot, burst, or full-auto Rate of Fire: 800 rpm Magazine: 15- or 30-round magazine Reload Time: 10 seconds Effective Ranges Full auto/single shot or burst: Short: 25/35 m Medium: 50/75 m Long: 120/150 m Weapon Reliability: 98% Base Cost: Cb 150 Reload Cost: (15-round magazine): Cb 3 (30-round magazine): Cb 6 Notes The KRT Assault Rifle is fairly typical of modern assault rifle designs. Simple to manufacture and operate, robust, able to withstand hard use and hostile environments, and cheap enough to be mass-produced in large numbers, the KRT-AR can be found in service throughoutthe Draconis Combine, the Capellan Confederation, and in the armories of dozens of Periphery client states, mercenary infantry groups, guerrilla units, and revolutionary fronts. The KRT's modular design allows simple conversion to different versions, including a light machine gun (KR-LMG), a sniper's rifle (KRS), and a carbine (KRT-Short). It fires a 7.5 mm round of either an armor-piercing orafrangible design. The AP round can penetrate most standard body armor within effective range. The frangible round has ittle penetration value but fragments on impact, dumping its kinetic energy within the target rapidly in orderto cause maximum damage. Kogyo Industries have sold manufacturing licenses for the KRT design throughout the inner sphere, and the rifle is manufactured in several variants which may be encountered almost anywhere. The popular AR rifle is well-known throughout Marik space and is easily recognizable with its folding stock and integral folding bayonet. Even some Davion infantry units use one variant, the K-90 assault rifle, which they favor as being more reliable under adverse conditions than the sometimes-tempermental FLR. Assault Rifles Introduction Federated Long Rifle Federated Zeus Heavy Rifle Gallo Model 3003 "KRT AR" Bereiter Arms Model AR90 Thomas GPR Back to BattleTechnology 3 Table of Contents Back to BattleTechnology List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1988 by Pacific Rim Publishing. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com