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I'm just wonder if there are any mentions of weapons utilizing the RIS(Rail Interface systems) to attach accessories such as scopes or flash lights;

Do such weapons exist?(I want to know cause I want to use third party weapons with RIS while having a fluffy army)

There are so many patterns of weapons out there that I'm sure some of them have something similar. Go nuts, and it'll look cool to boot

Hm lascannons and melta weapons could be on similar principle....

Well, ln 'dexes and art there is numerous bayoneted weapon. And in RW i do not remember many weapons with integral bayonet but number of ones with special mount for it.

PS Just as curiosity: some infantry rifles (designed pre-WWI) were intended with usage with bayonet only (but bayonet was detachable). This led to strange things like bayoneted sniper rifle - Mosin rifle 1891/31 was sniper version of 1891/30, and bayonet was kept as this was more cost-effective than introducing balancing weight.

chyron wrote:
Well, ln 'dexes and art there is numerous bayoneted weapon. And in RW i do not remember many weapons with integral bayonet but number of ones with special mount for it.

PS Just as curiosity: some infantry rifles (designed pre-WWI) were intended with usage with bayonet only (but bayonet was detachable). This led to strange things like bayoneted sniper rifle - Mosin rifle 1891/31 was sniper version of 1891/30, and bayonet was kept as this was more cost-effective than introducing balancing weight.

Bayoneted Sniper Rifle?! That sounds perfect for 40k

I don't recall any specific mentions of rails, but the roleplaying games make it seem pretty easy to add accessories to weapons and some of the novels mention lights and suchlike being attached to lasguns without going into too much detail of how that is done.

Perfect Organism wrote:
I don't recall any specific mentions of rails, but the roleplaying games make it seem pretty easy to add accessories to weapons and some of the novels mention lights and suchlike being attached to lasguns without going into too much detail of how that is done.

A house rule I call "Duct tape"

 The Mad Tanker wrote:


Bayoneted Sniper Rifle?! That sounds perfect for 40k

Nah, too slender and pretty to be imperial -
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/6017/54492816.jpg

And 1938 version was bayonetless
http://www.army.lv/photos/33771.jpg
http://www.army.lv/photos/33775.jpg

BTW i could swear that i saw imperial sniper rifle with LARGE blade bayonet in some 'dex or IA.

I think the admech would have a cow if you put a rail system on a bolter.

I doubt actual 1913 MIL-STD rails would have survived into the 41st milenium. There may be something similar.

Commander Endova wrote:
I doubt actual 1913 MIL-STD rails would have survived into the 41st milenium. There may be something similar.

BTW, things like flashlights etc don't necessarily need rails - magnetic locks ARE used in 40k.

There are weapon attachments such as sights, suppressors and bayonets, which are in some way affixed to a weapon. The design of the guns in the 41st millennium, however, would support the idea of maglocks as mentioned by chyron. If you look at a bolter, for example, you will see two rail-like sections - one on the top and one just below the barrel - where a targeter and a chainblade or sarissa could be attached. However, these sections are blank metal and not the "jagged" rails you are referring to as they are in use by modern day military forces.

This wargear was designed in a time when rails were still not standard issue, and much like other tech in the setting it may thus appear outdated. However, I find it much easier to believe that there either exists a superior alternative or that the technological retrogression and AdMech ritualisation/superstition has destroyed all knowledge of this option ... rather than updating the entire setting's tech every 10 years just because something new which could not have been foreseen by the writers has just been invented in the real world.

Magnetic locks seem to be what they use, almost universally present in novels etc...

I can see them having very small and powerful electromagnets built into most of their weapon systems.