AUG

Official character description: As a T-doll, even though she can experience sadness and sorrow, she is not capable of crying tears. On the battlefield, her flowery fragrance covers the ashes and burnt powders, her enemies receives the most glamorous departure. Unable to express the lamentation of mortality, but she does however makes death mesmerizing. She feels calm and relaxed while walking under the rain, this is also one of the few rare occasions where one can bare witness of genuine smile. Standard servicing rifle of Austrian Army, official product name given by the designing company Steyr-Daimler-Puch was AUG. Design finished in 1977, entered service the following year under the designation StG77. AUG and developed variants continued to serve Austrian military and law enforcement units til today, apart from domestic use, AUG was also widely exported to many nation's across the globe, inside and outside of NATO. Took part in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, even used in the ongoing Yemeni and Syrian civil wars. Steyr wasn't the first to start a bullpup military service firearm project, both the British and the Soviets have been developing bullpup firearms as early as post World War 2, even AUG's own development project was on-going around the same time as the French FAMAS. AUG was however designed as a modular weapon system, meaning it could be converted with appropriate spare parts, into different configurations, into different calibres, into different roles. AUG was arguably one of the first modular service firearm in the world, the most manufactured variants are assault rifles of 5.56mm calibre. AUG is a bullpup configured weapon system with a gas-operated short-stroke piston mechanism, fires from a closed rotary bolt. Chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO/.223 Remington calibre, AUG fires at 650 rounds per minute cyclic, effective up to 300 metres of range with the integrated optic. Selective fire comes with the trigger, a short pull produces semi automatic fire, full pull fires the weapon automatically. AUG uses a cross-bolt, button type safety, located above the pistol grip, when pressed the trigger is mechanically locked. The pistol grip itself is covered by a large curved trigger guard, the weapon can be used with thick gloves. Fed with translucent polymer 30-round double-column magazines, the weapon housing is also made with polymer, some later produced stock pieces can refit the AUG to accept STANAG issue magazines. Changing exterior blanking plate component on the stock and changing the bolt assembly with one that has the extractor/ejector on the appropriate side, AUG can be configured for left and right hand firing. AUG is not fully ambidextrous however due to the charging handle being fixed on left side only. Receiver of the weapon features a carrying handle with an integrated Swarovski 1.5× telescopic sight, emergency iron sights can be found on top of the scope itself, this assembly can be removed completely and refit to a Picatinny rail placement for the fitting of compatible optics. AUG also have an integrated forward folding fore-grip attached on the barrel assembly, removing the fore-grip and fitting appropriate adapters, AUG can mount 40mm grenade launchers underneath the barrel. Barrel assembly of AUG can be changed relatively quickly, different length barrels features different style muzzle devices, assault rifle variants usually feature a three-pronged, open-type flash suppressors, this muzzle device can also serve as a mount to launch 22mm rifle grenades. Different length barrels will effect AUG's performance in terms of effective range and accuracy, SAW and DMR variants would have better accuracy and higher muzzle velocities than the SMG/rifle variants. Other than the barrel, the bolt assemble can also be changed so the weapon fires from an open bolt, which helps preventing the SAW/SMG variants from cook off during long firing sessions.