Real life Bolter

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**ace101**

Engine of War wrote:
At this current time. creating a "Bolter" would be easy with todays technology.

The gun itself is straight forwards. its a semi-auto/automatic gun only with very large ammunition.

The bolt is a amalgum of techologys that either have been developed already or are in testing.

A delayed impact fuse, rocket motor and shell casing it all it would require to make the bolt work. All of which have been developed, even if most of them are millitary equipment.
THe bolt is spun by the guns rifling already so the rocket motor would not need to be used as an alternate method of spinning the round (a civil war rocket tried it, It did not work as intended but was more accurate then the alternatives), it would only need to increase the forward speed but without looseing accuracy.

the explosive bolt properties are simple. just a charge in the bullet. the fuse would be a impact fuse with a slight delay to allow it to bury itself into the target to explode.

The only issue would be weight. such a weapon (even a human sized one) would be a heavy gun.

The tip of the bolt would have to be made with tungston-carbide or have diamond bit in it. Bolts have diamondite tips to be able to penetrate light armor; I don't know if we have something that hard to put on a bolt moving that fast.The bolt in one of the earlier picture that has fins looks cool, but that doesn't have an armor penetrating tip, which bolts have.

@deathreaper-I was looking to see if anyone made a gyrojet with the bolter's casing, and I found this one among the top 3 choices.