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(Created page with "{| class="wikitable": style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none; width: 40%" | colspan="4"| '''M6G Personal Defense Weapon System''' |- | colspan="4"| 706px |- | Official designation: || M6G || || style="width: 50%" | |- | Length (o/a): || 26.70 cm || (10.5 in.) || style="width: 50%" | |- | Length (barrel): || 11.7 cm || (4.6 in.) || style="width: 50%" | |- | Weight (empty): || 2.7 kg || (5.95 lbs) || style="width...")
 
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| colspan="4"| '''[[M6G2 magnum|M6G Personal Defense Weapon System]]'''
| colspan="4"| '''[[MA5C assault rifle|MA5C Assault Rifle]]'''
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| colspan="4"| [[File:M6G PDWS.jpg|706px]]
| colspan="4"| ''Excerpt from long-term, in-field interview with the soldiers of [[E2-BAG/1/7]].''
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| Official designation: || M6G || || style="width: 50%" |
'''MA5C Individual Combat Weapon System'''
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| Length (o/a): || 26.70 cm || (10.5 in.) || style="width: 50%" |
'''Official designation:''' MA5C<br/>
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'''Length (o/a):''' 88 cm (34.6 in.)<br/>
| Length (barrel): || 11.7 cm || (4.6 in.) || style="width: 50%" |
'''Length (barrel):''' 60.7 cm (24 in.)<br/>
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'''Weight (empty):''' 3.8 kg (8.378 lbs)<br/>
| Weight (empty): || 2.7 kg || (5.95 lbs) || style="width: 50%" |
'''Weight (loaded):''' 4.1 kg (9.05 lbs)<br/>
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'''Cartridge:''' [[7.62x51mm|7.62mm x 51 FMJ]]<br/>
| Weight (loaded): || 2.95 kg || (6.5 lbs) || style="width: 50%" |
'''Max. effective range:''' 300 meters (984 ft)<br/>
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'''Muzzle velocity:''' 905 m/s (2970 f/s)<br/>
| Cartridge: || colspan="4" | [[12.7x40mm#M225 SAP-HE|12.7 mm x 40 SAP-HE (semi-armor-piercing high-explosive)]]
'''Magazine capacity:''' 32 rounds<br/>
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'''Rate of fire:''' 750 – 900 rnds/min<br/>
| Max. effective range: || 50 meters || (152.5 ft) || style="width: 50%" |
'''Unit Replacement cost:''' 1686.00
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| Muzzle velocity: || 427 m/s || (1302.35 f/s) || style="width: 50%" |
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| Magazine capacity: || 8 rounds || || style="width: 50%" |
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| Rate of fire: || semi-automatic only || || style="width: 50%" |
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| Unit Replacement cost: || [[Credit|cR]]. 1615 || || style="width: 50%" |
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'''Description:'''
'''Description:'''


The [[M6 series]] are recoil-operated and magazine-fed. The ‘[[M6B magnum|B]]’ and ‘[[M6D magnum|D]]’ variants are issued with the [[Smart-linking|smart-linked]] [[KFA-2 x2]] scope. It fires 12.7mm x 40 semi-armor-piercing high-explosive ammunition (standard issue). M6 series handguns are issued in three different finishes: hard chrome, black polymer, and electroless nickel.
The MA5C 7.62mm rifle is an air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine fed weapon designed for automatic fire. The weapon has an attached electronics suite that provides information on rounds remaining in magazine, compass heading, as well as several other "housekeeping" functions.
 
Improvements over the [[MA5B assault rifle|MA5B]] include:
 
- a heavier barrel with a 1 in [[7]] twist;
- a redesigned cowling to house the electronics suite that reduces weight and increases pointability of weapon;
- a redesigned handguard which is sturdier and provides a more positive grip.


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'''Observations:'''
'''Observations:'''


The M6 is designed primarily for ruggedness and reliability. Some believe that weight and magazine capacity should have been higher on that list. This weapon is issued mainly to officers and vehicle/weapon crews. It is not considered a primary weapon.
Soldiers are very satisfied with this weapon. It performed well in a variety of environments especially given the perceived delicacy of the attached electronics suite. The general consensus is that every infantryman wants a MA5C.
 
The most significant negative comment was reference to the MA5C’s lack of a secondary weapon system.


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'''Remarks:'''
'''Remarks:'''


“The M6 is either the world’s biggest pistol or the world’s smallest rifle—I’m not sure which.”
“The (MA5C) is the workhorse for us ground-pounders. Just holding it makes you feel like God’s own anti-son-of-a-blam!-machine.”
 
“I have slogged through snow and mud and sand with my (MA5C); even got dumped into an open sewer with it and it has never given me a bit of complaint. I trust it like I trust my own arms.”


“It’s strange. Normally a big bore means access to a greater variety of exotic munitions, but we just don’t see that variety in the field.” [1]
“The MA5C is built like a brick outhouse with Venetian blinds. You can pound on a mike foxtrot with it like it was a sledgehammer.”


“The M6 has been around forever; the number of variants and configurations is dizzying… have you ever seen an [[M6J/C carbine|M6J(C)]]—[[UNSC Army|the Army]]’s carbine variant?”
“For every time I’ve felt outgunned by those alien bastards shooting blobs of energy at me I have felt like death himself watching their bodies come apart under a hail of lead from my (MA5C).”


“The M6 has been in service for about a hundred and forty years… it’s amazing to think how little it has changed in all that time.”
“The romeo echo mike foxtrot’s decision to mechanically reduce the (MA5C)’s magazine capacity by nearly half is pretty frustrating; even if their data was showing that jamming because of loss of spring strength was becoming an issue.”


“The longevity of the M6 has always been more about pork barrels and [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] travel than reliability or the so-called brilliance of its design.”
“The only thing I can think of that would make the (MA5C) any sweeter would be an [[Underslung shotgun|under-slung shotty]] or a [[40mm grenade|forty mike mike]].”


“The [[M6A magnum|ehs]] and [[M6B magnum|bees]] are way more comfortable to shoot, but you don’t see many of them outside of [[civilian]] security forces anymore.”
“Next time I’m dirtside I’ve gotta try and find a red filter for the [[flashlight]]; [[Slipstream space|slipspace]] travel screws with mail-order something fierce.


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| colspan="4"| [1] M225 SAPHE ammunition is standard issue for the M6 PDWS, but there are more “exotic” ammunition types available only by Mission Conditional Requisition (MCR).
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