CW Mock wrote:
It would still need a bolt and open ejection port to clear a jam, or dead round. Or, it would somehow need something that could do the same thing with an ammunition related malfunction.
The pulse rifle does have a selector switch at least.
No it wouldn't. The bolt is for inserting, and extracting the round/casing into the fireing position. If the ammo is placed into the fireing position, by the magazine (ie just lifted by the mag spring right into position,) there is no need for said bolt. Also there would be no fireing pin, as it would be electricly fired. As for clearing a jam, acording to the HK G11 website (a real Caseless weapon), it doesn't jam. Although that particular weapon does have a bolt, but only because the ammo isn't placed into the fireing position, unlike the PR should be.
As for a dead round would that even be possible in a caseless weapon? The entire back part of the ammo is propellant so any part of it ignighted would fire the round. So the only way for it to be dead is if the propellant was damaged, in which case you would notice when you reloaded it into the mag, or it would be damaged in the mag itself, in which case you would also see the damage to the mag and not in load it in the first place.
Just thinking, on the G11 the 'bolt' is a rotating assembly designed (among other things) to seperate the round being fired from the other rounds to prevent mass detonation of the magazine...
Surely the M41-A would have to have a similar 'bolt' to prevent the same problem occurring?
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