Advanced Combat Rifle

Generic Advanced Combat Rifle
Generic Advanced Combat Rifle
Group:	Ranged Weapon
Tech Level	TL–10
Size	750.0 mm
Weight	3,500.0 grams
Cost	Cr1,000
Ammo	9mm bullet, 6mm DS slug, 40mm Grenade
Manufacturer	Various
Generic Advanced Combat Rifle

The Advanced Combat Rifle (4,000.0 grams loaded; Cr1,000; TL-10) is an advanced slugthrower and one of the most flexible and available firearms available to militaries.

• It is a KEW weapon.

Description (Specifications)

Combat Rifle: The modifier "Combat" is a term indicating that the weapon is designed for use in combat by soldiers, and is characterized by an ability to hit person-sized targets at relatively short ranges (~150 meters) using explosive projectiles. A Combat Rifle is a progressive development of the Assault Rifle.

The "Advanced Combat Rifle" (ACR) is a development of the Combat Rifle concept, firing either a 9mm, 5.0 gram High Explosive (HE) bullet at 900 meters per second, or a 9/6mm, 3.0 gram discarding sabot (DS) slug at 1,200 meters per second. A magazine containing twenty rounds is inserted into the underside of the weapon behind the pistol grip. Reloading takes just a few seconds, during which the firer is treated as evading. The weapon may be fired either automatically or semi-automatically (…as with the assault rifle). Many Combat Rifles as they become more advanced use either caseless ammunition or Electro-thermal Chemical rounds for acceleration of the round.

Standard equipment includes an electronic battlefield sight, incorporating both light amplification and passive IR, visual magnification, and a laser rangefinder which may also be used as a target painting device. The weapon is also gyroscopically stabilized during firing. A sling is provided, and the muzzle of the rifle includes an integral flash suppressor and adaptor for launching a 40mm RAM shoot-through grenade or an under-barrel RAM-Grenade Launcher.

Weapon Characteristics

Length, exclusive of grenade: 750.0 mm. Weight, unloaded: 3,500.0 grams (loaded magazine weighs 500.0 grams). Base price: Cr1,000 (loaded HE Magazine Cr20, Loaded DS magazine Cr25). Note, due to the high per round cost, solid slug ammunition is often manufactured locally, at a base price of Cr15 per magazine. When firing slug ammunition, use the range modifiers of The ACR and the target modifiers and damage levels of the assault rifle. Extreme range: 1,000.0 meters. Tech level 10.

History & Background (Dossier)

Advanced Combat Rifles come of age in the TL:10-12 epoch and are never really considered obsolete as they remain useful well into the TL:13-15 epoch. The weapon is preceded by the Rifle, Automatic Rifle, and Assault Rifle. By TL:13-15, Plasma Weaponry and Gauss Rifles tend to predominate.

Selected Advanced Combat Rifle Models

1. TL-6 Early Combat Rifle
2. TL-7 Combat Rifle
3. TL-8 Improved Combat Rifle
4. TL-9 Modified Combat Rifle / Enhanced Combat Rifle
5. TL-10 Advanced Combat Rifle
6. TL-11 (Modified) Advanced Combat Rifle
7. TL-12 (Ultimate) Advanced Combat Rifle

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Frank Chadwick. Mercenary (Game Designers Workshop, 1978), 37.
• Jim Cunningham. "The Armory: Book 4 Small Arms." High Passage 2 (1981): 43. (Illustration)
• Marc Miller. Imperial Encyclopedia (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), TBD.
• Greg Porter. Emperor's Arsenal (Imperium Games, 1997), TBD.
• Matthew Sprange. Core Rule Book (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), 119.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science