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Lada of the Flowers,
I'm not sure exactly what your story or premise is, so I'm just tossing out some information that hopefully isn't too technical, and perhaps something will click and be useful at arming your characters. I'm not too good with brand names, but I do have a bit of forensic and tactical info that might be useful. Given a little more info on your fictional milieu, I could probably reel out some more, and Google a few sites that aren't solely for people already in the technnical know.
Not that I'd contradict the sage wisdom of the Wachoski Brothers or anything, but special forces types, and especially secret police, don't carry gigantic hardware meant for stopping elephants, precisely because they are generally operating in urban areas where there ain't much logistics of a weapon that can pass through five or six walls before slowing up.
The way of the future for urban military units has been with compact, low-recoil semiautomatic rifles, in essence improving upon the concept of the Israeli Uzi. They aren't very sexy to look at...sort of just matte black boxes with some ergonomic contouring, and their loads are rarely larger than a .303. The need for greater or lesser stopping power and penetration is now handled by the multiplicity of ammunition types. Crowd control is still implemented with vehicle-mounted .50 caliber machine guns...the tendency of an HV Mini-gun (orginally designed to do double duty in jungle combat by exfoliating the region and exsansanguinating the opponent) to vaporize swathes of people and the buildings/cars/trees behind them makes it a little unfeasible as a deterrant weapon.
By contrast, consider that the .45 caliber pistol has only become military standard since the US occupation of the Phillipines, being introduced *precisely* to deal with the need for crippling power at close range with a very enthusiatic opponent...in other words, in combat occurring on a building-to-building, room-to-room basis. The Desert Eagle, which is the .50 caliber automatic flashed about so lovingly in action films (particularly the Matrix) is the sort of idiot coda on this premise, designed and sold to the US military for service during our conflict in Iraq...because, of course, of the dire need to amputate a limb or implode a major organ with every shot. Of course, the Desert Eagle also recoils so much that it would sprain your wrist if fired one handed, and you have to aim at someone's toes to hit them in the stomach. Thus *sane* non-fanboy types opt for the lighter sidearms, such as 9mms. The US, I think, still issues .45s to officers, but as full-time military they make it a point to practice with and accomodate the recoil force of the handgun. |
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