Name: T-145B plasma shrouded flachette launcher "Storm rifle"
Owner: Leverian Legion
Creator: Leverian Republic Ground Forces Equipment Development (LRGFED)
Development Thread: Not powerful enough
Relative Size:
Barrel: 31 inches
Height: 10 inches
Width: 6 inches
Overall Length: 38 inches
Type:
Bulpup styled heavy assault rifle, Railgun class
Range:
Accurate: 1200 yd
Effective: 1200 yd
Optimal: 8-900 yd
Damage style:
Hybrid kinetic penetrating and extreme thermal
Ammo: 5x30 mm heatshield tipped tungsten flachettes with aluminum discarding sabots
Rarity: Common (Standard issue front line weapon)
Strengths
- Penetrating heavy armor at close to mid range
- Thermal damage to electronics and flesh
- Accurate and effective to 1200 yards
Weaknesses
- Range is hard limited to 1200 yards due to the flachettes disintigrating under atmospheric forces
- Plasma shroud does not form outside of atmosphere
- Small magazine
- Large kick force
Description:
Better known as the Storm Rifle for its rolling thunder sound and the burns it leaves, the T-145B is a potent battlefield weapon.
This rifle features an 800 flachette magazine, the capability of up to thirty flachettes per second fired, and a semiauto mode of 10 flachette bursts. When fired from the barrel, the hollowpointed flachette rounds' heat shield tips create enough friction with surrounding air at Mach 8 to literally ignite the atmosphere to plasma, creating a hybrid damage type. These will disintegrate safely after about 1200 yards to prevent collateral damage.
The flachettes are long and thin, approximately 5mm wide by 30mm long, to provide the best armor penetration possible by sheer single point impact force.
Most fighters using this weapon complain of the kick and noise of this rifle, alongside the not insignificant muzzle flare making this anything but a stealthy weapon.
Subject: T-145B "Storm Rifle" 
