Marder Gauss Rifle
The Marder Corporation only recently entered the gauss rifle market, despite a long success with conventional military rifles. Rather than try to compete with more established companies in the general military rifle category, Marder chose to develop a more precise, and costly, specialist gauss rifle that has found favor with snipers and other elite forces.
The weapon is built around a central cerametal alloy chassis/receiver to which all sub-assemblies are attached. As a result, the weapon is extremely rigid, and the modular assemblies allow different sight assemblies, barrels and stocks to be fitted as required.
The weapon is extremely accurate and the standard electro-optical computing gunsight provided with the weapon greatly assists in long range shooting. The sight compensates for such factors as wind speed and direction, local gravity, temperature and humidity and is ruggedized. Interestingly, the Marder gauss rifle is fitted with auxilliary iron sight, in the (highly unlikely) event that the optical sights should fail.
The weapon is fitted with a seperate safety and selector. When the weapon is placed in the semi-automatic mode, the pull required to actuate the electronic trigger is reduced from a standard 3.5 kg to a mere 750 g.
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