IMPROVED SQUAD AUTOMATIC WEAPON PROGRAM
(Robotic Scout Sniper)

The U.S. Machine Gun Armory (USMGA) specializes in the "SAW" platforms; constantly innovating and exploring ways to improve this platform and/or to customize it for specific applications, such as robotic systems.

Current research focuses on a "Robotic Scout Sniper" capable of long term surveillance and concealed interdiction of enemy forces with high volume/high precision fire. Required is a weapon optimized for the use of robotic systems which accounts for the particular characteristics of their "user interface" in the following areas:

• Aircraft-style Pneumatic Cocking/Compressed Air Port Clearing
  Due to the inability of the robotic system to manually clear and invert the weapon to expel feedway jams, the unit will utilize compressed air to retract the cocking lever with a pneumatic cylinder that exhausts at full travel into a tube which directs the blast of air into the open action to blow unfired rounds, cartridge cases, links or debris clear on every stroke.


• Solenoid Controlled Trigger/Fire Selector Mechanism
  This electrically controlled device will physically rotate the selector from "Safe" through "A" settings through detent recognition, including US Navy trigger groups with four as opposed to three fire control locations.


• Liquid Cooled Barrel/Recuperative Power Generation System
  As the barrel heats, thermo-electric and micro-steam generation of electrical power becomes a potential byproduct of the cooling process that allows extended fire without barrel changes. A variety of thermal power "long curve" generation methods are available which are not dependent on continual firing "impulses" produced by load cells or electro-mechanical scavenging methods.


• Integral "Coolant Vapor" Suppressor
  Liquids used in the barrel cooling process may be injected into the suppressor to both cool it and reduce the sound signature of firing. Vapor from the barrel jacket produced in extended firing would be vented into the suppressor to both increase it's efficiency and further conceal the thermal signature of the weapon.


• Sub-MOA Accuracy Match Barrel/Fluted Chamber Design
  The accuracy of the USMGA weapon is improved by a variety of means, including the addition of Match Grade barrels with chambers designed to aid in extraction and prevent case head separation which would cause the robotic system to abort it's interdiction mission. Fluting, as added to the HK weapons system to compensate for a lack of primary extraction, reduces the surface area of the chamber in contact with the case and increases the time required to "cook off" a loaded round in a hot chamber.


• Enhanced Powered Data Bus Rail Interface
  The robotic system will have the ability to utilize standard infantry sensors, lasers and sights through the addition of a powered data rail interface which uploads imagery to the remote operator. Bi-directional computer communications will allow remote control of these weapon accessories to enhance the situational awareness and action taking ability of operators.

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