Sag Advanced Combat Rifle

The Sag Advanced Combat Rifle (ACR)

Overview

The Sag-34 Advanced Combat Rifle, or ACR, is a unique weapon built around a bullpup design, with a twenty round clip located behind the the pistol grip. This weapon, like its sister weapons (SAG N.01 Needler, SAG N.02 Dragoon Needler, SAG-2, SAG Commando, SAG P3, and SAG NMG), a caseless design, but this is by far the most powerful variant of the line, firing a 7mm Fletchette with a much more powerful propellant charge than its sister weapons. Inside of the block propellant is an embedded sabot, loaded with the heavy Tungsten Carbide Fletchette.

Design

The ACR is a solid body design, fluid and without a sharp angle. The magazine is housed behind the trigger assembly, tucked into the stock, released by pushing the handle with the thumb. The stock flows upwards into a molded pistol grip with a wide base for prone firing stability, and the safety is located on the trigger, therefore released at a half-pull, with no time wasted thumbing off a switch. Above the trigger assembly and internal barrel, a smooth arch provided an occlusion for the integrated three to twelve power digital scope, which runs forward for six inches on the top of the weapon. After the sight terminates, inside another occluded archway, the gun body flows downwards, revealing the barrel and compensator rod.

A slight carrying handle runs forward from beneath the scope housing, before it too arcs downward and forks over the compensator rod. Below the handle and rod, there are twin gas vents on each side, designed to blow out the residual dust from the caseless rounds being fired, and to bleed off excess inertia. Below the vents, safely tucked from the scalding blast of gasses, is a molded forward grip, which doubles as a pump action, which allows the ACR to be cocked ambidextrously, and to purge misfires from the barrel.

The bottom mold of the weapon continues forward for another six inches ahead of the charging pump, before it flows upwards to the barrel and terminates. The harmonically isolated barrel extends by itself for an additional four inches, allowing room for more compensator ports and a muzzle brake. The entire weapon is a mere thirty-two point four inches long, and weighs approximately twelve point three pounds, unloaded.

Action

Upon firing, a small electrical arc strikes the caseless round, which detonates, hurling the sabot down the slow-rifled barrel. As the sabot clears the end of the weapon, its splits and burns off, leaving the fletchette on a more stable, ballistically superior course than a mere bullet counterpart. The gas is vented through the compensator and muzzle brake, and the barrel recoils back into the weapon itself for two inches. The excess gas is diverted back through the chamber and barrel, blasting any residue through the side ports, while the topside compensator rod is pushed forward, hauling the next round into place and recharging the battery ignition through electrical field movement against a magnetic strip. Through this complex, though redundant, mechanism, the ACR delivers a long recoil stroke, which gives a steady “shove” directly back instead of a sharp pull or jerk.

Due to the chemical base of the molded explosive that forms the propellant for the initial sabot, the ACR has the same distinctive blue muzzle flash as the entire caseless Sag line of weapons, although it is combined with the splitting, burning sabot to form a sudden blue-white blast and yellow flare. When fired, there is a distinctive "crack-ching" noise from the sabot shattering, and the recoil stroke. The TC fletchette achieves a muzzle velocity of approximately 4,250fps, and can maintain integrity at impacts of this speed, although it demonstrates a sudden and violent exothermic reaction when striking a dense target, such as an armored plate, while travelling at over 3,500fps.

Capability

The ACR is accurate to one tenth of a minute of angle, due to the superior performance of the TC fletchette ammunition and harmonically isolated barrel. The weapon is capable of piercing through up to two inches of steel at one hundred meters range, and can be easily utilized by any trained personnel, thanks to its advanced recoil-absorbtion system. As an added bonus, the bullpup design allows the weapon to be easily concealed inside of large coat for surprise operations. Due to the advanced hardware in the gun, the Sag ACR must be recalibrated every ten thousand shots, as the barrel will lose accuracy and the magnetic recharge will begin to wear. This recalibration must be done by an Sag Certified gunsmith, or the warranty will be void. However, the ACR offers superior penetrating power and accuracy to almost any other fielded infantry rifle, while remaining controllable and compact.

• Produced by the Category:SAG Weapons Corporation of Kaukolastan. See our Catalog.