- "The weapons we carry are more powerful than any you have ever seen."
- ―Teyla Emmagan[src]
Firearms, guns, or projectile weapons are handheld kinetic energy weapons (KEW's) extensively used by the Tau'ri.
Overview[]
Firearms launch projectiles at extreme speed accelerated by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas generated by chemical propellants. The most primitive form of propellant is gunpowder, a blend of charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate, while modern firearms use more powerful "smokeless" propellants based on nitrocellulose, with additions of nitroglycerine in some types. While considered technologically primitive compared to most energy weapons, they are more than capable of piercing the armor worn by Jaffa, Ori soldiers, and Wraith warriors. Compared to the firearms of other human cultures, Tau'ri weapons are considerably more advanced, refined and modular. Which should not come as any surprise, as there are hundreds to thousands of different firearms models with possibly thousands of different purpose built ammunition types being developed by dozens of manufacturers on Earth. Include almost uncountable number of various attachments, spare parts, repair tools & so on to maintain and modify firearms for different combat scenarios during terrestrial conflicts.
Interestingly, kinetic energy weapons are the only known weapon capable of permanently damaging insect-form Replicators, prior to the invention of the Replicator disruptor. While the blocks may come back together after one shot, several shots will destroy them. Though useless against Kull armor no matter what types of ammo fired until Kull disruptor became available. Firearms are also not susceptible to energy disruptions or loss of power over time. However, since firearms require ammunition, they lack the endurance of energy weapons while reloading. As well as possible overheat if not changing new gun barrel which not all firearms can achieve this feature. They are typically much more combat effective and battle proven than Staff weapons and similar weapons under many battle conditions; firearms possess superior accuracy, higher rate of fire and longer effective range over most commonly used energy weapons. Semi-automatic pistols such as the Colt M1911A1 and M9 are enough to kill Jaffa and provide cover fire to a certain extent while submachine guns such as the popular FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon can easily take down several Jaffa before they can fire a single blast. In heavy combat situations, more powerful projectile weapons such as the Colt M16A3 rifle mounted with a Colt M203 grenade launcher are clearly superior to the Staff weapon albeit need time to reload.
Moreover, the Tau'ri have a wide array of other projectile weapons that can be used under many situations such as assault rifles and submachine guns; G36K and the H&K MP5A3 submachine gun, sniper rifles, general purpose machine guns such as the M60 machine gun, light machine guns such as the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon are highly efficient. Even 'older' assault rifles like the Russian Kalashnikov AK-47 is a clearly a match for both Jaffa and Wraith. And, even though designed in 1944, it is a much more advanced rifle than those of the Genii, who possess weapons technology similar to that of late 1930's to early 1940's Earth. The Genii are very advanced according to human standards in the Pegasus Galaxy. The weapons of the Tau'ri during the American Civil War (1861-1865) are still superior to many, if not most, of the human populations in the Pegasus - further proof of how advanced the Tau'ri firearms are.
Known firearms[]
Pistols[]
- Colt M1911A1 pistol
- Enfield No.2
- Glock
- Makarov pistol
- M9 pistol
- Rossi Model 971
- Ruger P89
- Smith & Wesson 3913
- Smith & Wesson 5906
- Smith & Wesson Model 10
- Taurus PT92
- Walther P99
Shotguns[]
Sub-machine guns[]
- FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon
- H&K MP5A3 submachine gun
- MP7 submachine gun
- Thompson submachine gun
- Uzi
Assault rifles[]
- Colt M16A3 rifle
- G36K
- Kalashnikov AK-47
- Kalashnikov AK-74
- M4 Carbine
- Micro 16 assault rifle
- QBZ-97B
- UMP .45
- Zastava M85
Rifles[]
- Barrett M82
- HK SL8 sniper rifle
- H&K SR9TC sniper's rifle
- Knight's Armament Revolver Rifle
- Musket
- Remington 7600
- Remington Model 700
- SVD sniper's rifle
Machine guns[]
- FN M240 machine gun
- GAU-8 Avenger
- M2 Browning
- M249 Squad Automatic Weapon
- M60 and M60E3 machine gun
- M61 Vulcan
- PKM general purpose machine gun
- Vympel R-27
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