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Originally Posted by Project_Sardonicus
Whilst finding the Greener shotgun I found this monstrosity.
I can't believe it's recoil wouldn't be extremely painful for the strongest foe, who'd still need to rest it on something.
http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/rus/ks-23-e.html
But this bad boy packs a special solid vehicle stopping round that I'm guessing could punch through the relatively thin armour on a MP vehicle, damaging the engine or blowing off a wheel. |
The Russian arms system works as you can tell differently though I will argue more effectively for mass production.
When they make barrels, they make barrels all one length. So a 5.45mm barrel is made on a rifling machine for all weapons that will be chambered for that cartridge. The barrel is then cut to the length for the weapon at the factory. So one batch of barrels is made then divvied up to go to the MG line, rifle line, and pistol line.
So in this case it appears some was left over from producing 23mm auto cannons for AAA guns like the ZPU-23-4. cut to length and turned down you have a shotty barrel somewhere between 10 gauge and 8 gauge.