why the complicated names for guns in g.r.?

[cajun47]

like the saw and others. its full of letters and numbers.

and why not list the cal. of the weapons and other details.

i see kits like "njtewqsa1145678" (example) why not let me know if its .223, 7.62x39mm, 30 06, .50, or whatever.

[San]

I think most of the gun-names are real. People who make weapon-mods are well known with real-life weapons. Some even have experience with some of them.

As for the wepaon-details there ain't much room to place them on kit-icon.

[NightCrawler]

You can always do a google search on any particular weapon and get more stats then you can shake a stick at.

If you want realistic GR weapons dl Sniper Armoury.

[migryder]

http://world.guns.ru/main-e.htm is one good site for pistols,sub-machine guns, sniper systems, etc. The best I've found for general warfare info is the Land Warfare Systems site = www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/ this one has it all, even links to sites with unit patches and such. Try the Fort Sill link. A good look for people who may want to mod vehicles - artillary. I've not found such a name in my mods, but most are the common names for those weapons. You'll learn the diff between a Robar RC-50, 60 or 90 if ya take the advice of above posts and this one though. Some do id the caliber in their kits.

migryder

[GimpyCON]

If you'd look on the box of GR i beleive it says that they are all real world guns, and the OICW which as the box says it aint out yet

[Zantar45]

cajun47 Posted on Mar 19 2003, 06:33

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like the saw and others. its full of letters and numbers.

and why not list the cal. of the weapons and other details.

i see kits like "njtewqsa1145678" (example) why not let me know if its .223, 7.62x39mm, 30 06, .50, or whatever. 

Some weapons are accurately named, some show caliber, but I think they gave the guns general names.( it is the future you know)

example, MP5/ MP5A4 . M16/ M16A3. 7.62mm Rifle/ FN FAL. 7.62 Sniper Rifle/ PSG-1.

Besides one of the early versions of the M4 is the XM177E1, imagine everyone talking in chat rooms saying.. ''Yeah the XM177E1 rocks'' '' Yeah I used the XM177E1 to snipe people across the screen, who also had the XM177E1, XM177E1 is so good, I cant believe people dont use the XM177E1''

There are alot of places on the internet to look up weapons. Some sites tell you more then most people would want to know ( except for myself )

Edited March 19, 2003 by Zantar45

[redneck]

Any military weapon will have at least two names: the manufacturer's model and the military designation (assuming a commercial provenance for the weapon). For example, what Remington calls their Model 700, the US Defense Dept calls an M24.

On top of that, you have a lot of different naming conventions used by the different services. In Ghost Recon, you are using US, NATO and Russian weapons, as well as some commercial models such as the MP5. No one uses the same naming convention, and even individual services will change their naming systems.

Until the 1930s, the US would use the year as a model designation (hence the US Rifle, Caliber 30, M1903).

o Then they would add suffixes for new modifications: US Rifle, Caliber 30, M1903A3.

o Then in the 1930s they started using numbers to represent a specific design: US Rifle, Caliber 30, M1 (the Garand); or US Carbine, Caliber 30, M1 (M1 Carbine).

o By the 1950s they had adopted on the 14th rifle design tested: US Rifle, Caliber 30, M14.

o In the 1960s they adopted the M16. Now we are up to the M16A4, and the carbine version is the M4 (fourth carbine design).

Keep in mind there are governments behind this, so it doesn't actually have to make any sense. Personally, it confuses me too, so I apologize if some of the details above are incorrect.

Calibers are not a part of the nomenclature because it's just one of the characteristics of the weapon, in the same way that the engine size is rarely a part of the name of a car model.