Colonel Wolfe's Eulogy flashback weapon.....

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Colonel Wolfe's Eulogy flashback weapon.....

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Okay,

after looking again at the weapon that Wolfe is using in the flashback video in Eulogy, I'm beginning to think it might be a bullpup rifle similar to the British SA80 (which started as a prototype in 1976 according to the Wiki entry). Given that Robotech has pretty much written that Wolverine Assault Rifle is the standard battle rifle for the UEG post-1st Robotech War, I'm inclined to think this would chamber the same NATO 7.62mm as the Wolverine as well as use the same mag. That is, unless someone knows of lineart showing this weapon (since its not in any of the MOSPEADA art collections that I own). Presumably Wolfe is using it without the barrel shroud (possibly to save weight). It should be able to mount the same kind of grenade launcher as the Wolverine as well as most optics (and it does appear to have a scope of some type if you zoom in on the cell).

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Sounds okay to me.
I imagine that even with mass-production standardization, there was still a lot of other weapons drifting around in military use; refurbished older weapons, smaller nationalist blocs and colonies attempting to produce their own weapons and not be in hoc to the main UEG suppliers, private firms trying to land big contracts with their own designs or sell to civilians. Some of these weapons might, in fact, have been superior in one way or other to the UEF weapons, but were never adopted due to more complicated manufacturing processes, economics, or politics. For their part, the UEG armed services likely let military personnel use these weapons as long as they used standardized ammo, the users paid for repairs/replacement out of their own pocket, and continued to carry and take care of their standard issue weapons.
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I always thought it was an H-90 in a rifle configuration, or at least related to the H-90 (due to its modular nature it could have additional modules). Invasion (Videogame) has the H-95 modular configuration weapon, it could be that.
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Could it be an M-25C Wolverine Carbine?
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Kagashi wrote:Could it be an M-25C Wolverine Carbine?


No, because the magazine is not visible and the barrel shroud is entirely different. It's shaped like a Steyr-Aug rifle which made me think of the SA80 as an example. It probably uses the same ammo and magazine (STANAG) as the Wolverine.
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perhaps it's a bullpup variant of the M25. same guts with a few mods, and a different housing? like how the OTs-14Groza is a bullpup variant Ak-47/AK-74?

there are several realworld examples of rifles that started as conventional layout then had bullpup models developed for special role use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullpup

only problem i can see with a bullpup desing is the weapon seems rather longer than i'd have expected.. the barrel looks right, but the buttstock seems oddly extended.
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