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Talk:(Aliens) - M41A Pulse Rifle
New Image?
I have a friend who posts on the RoboCop Archive board who has posted his completed (and pretty high-quality) Pulse Rifle model kit, and in high-definition pictures. Pending his permission, if no one here objects, I'd like to upload it in place of the present image. StanTheMan 22:06, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
10mm would make it an SMG
I just realize that if this weapon really was supposed to fire, in the story, 10mm rounds, then it isn't really a rifle as it is trying to be called some sort of future assault rifle. It's more like a submachine gun to me. Excalibur01 05:23, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
- 10mmx24mm is the official caliber, according to the technical manual. So, it'd be kinda similar to the VSS in caliber, right?-protoAuthor
- It shoots 10mm caseless according to the books-S&Wshooter 00:40, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
it could be a 10mm rifle round?
- It's a short cartridge, but being without a case that isn't so surprising. IIRC, the whole cartridge in the HK G11 was pretty short, too. And of course the German 7.92 'Kurz' is damn short as well, even with a casing. It could still very well be a conical-shaped rifle projectile, but just in a short cartridge/propellant package (without a case, as the weapons are caseless). And a 'shorter' rifle bullet is one of the prominent parts of the definition of 'assault rifle', after all. Just a thought. StanTheMan 21:57, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Judge Dredd
Was one of the gang types in the opening of Judge Dredd using a pulse rifle?
Both Aliens and Dredd were shot in the UK, where there is pretty much one supplier of firearms to the film and TV industry; they certainly had one live-firing pulse rifle at the time Dredd was produced.
-On second thoughts, no, it's a pump action shotgun. But it's what a shotgun would look like if tha manufacturers of the M-41 made one.
- Oh, now I have to dig out my Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual and find who the makers are in that universe... Armat. That's the company. God I love that book-protoAuthor
Random note if anyone makes a page for it:
The videogames [and comic books] are called "Aliens versus Predator," not "Alien vs Predator;" only the first movie is called that, and the at least in the case of the second game "versus" is spelled out completely in the title. Vangelis 08:15, 22 July 2009 (UTC)