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1)active-reactive artillery is a real thing and was a real thing from the 1960's at least. So two stage ammunition that fixes main weakness of gyrojet is obvious solution; 2)people forget how massive Astartes are and how big are their bolters. Combine that with the existence of irl 12 gauge double stack 20 round magazines and suddenly bolt magazines aren't such a mystery. Not to mention with how chonky they are, they could be even quad stacks; 3)flash hider and actual bore diameter have no connection. Caliber of bolter is always .75 at smallest. The big visible "bore" is actually a flash hider protruding forward of real barrel "mouth"; 4)no, humans use same caliber of bolter as Astartes. The charge may be a little less spicy, but caliber is the same. If anything, Custodes would be the ones to have smaller caliber bolter as miniaturization means higher ammo capacity, higher rate of fire, higher reliability and lower weight. It's like comparing M4 to M1 Garand. There were two patterns with smaller calibers, BUT both were Astartes exclusive and were lost during Heresy. Bolter in .50 is a myth that some youtuber spawned by misunderstanding the reference to irl gyrojet pistol; 5)apparently guided ammo is(or at least was) a thing. And apparently it also is a real world reference. I feel like I'm the only person in the world, who haven't seen that DARPA video when it first appeared; 6)bolter uses direct feed to marine helmet. Frontal post of fake "iron sights" on bolter actually houses camera and scope. Halo copied that... well, it was supposed to copy that, but for some reason did only for pistol😅 7)the only real mystery about bolter is where does it get the explosive power since majority of projectile weight is rocket motor that is burned out during flight. It's possible that it's some sort of miniature fission (sc)ramjet, that uses its own fissile core as improvised APDS on impact, but I still have no idea where the explosive part comes from and why authors mentioned deuterium. Idk, maybe if it had antimatter capsule it might have worked, but even then it falls into the trap of resulting explosion being too large and powerful for a handgun that you're supposed to be able to use in close quarters too. Woops, we're all dead because marine Doviculus used his bolter within 100m "no-no" zone😅

Is this your “Personal Interpretation”?

@@samdurfee6093 considering they've mentioned the myth that normal humans use smaller bolters, that was created by "lore youtubers"(no idea if it was Archcast or Majorkill, who is to blame for that disinformation), I guess you can say yes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

@@TheArklyte well “Normal Humans” do use Bolters. Guard Commanders, the Sister of Battle, Inquisitors, and the Adeptus Arbites. To name a few. So it’s not a “Myth” but rather Black Library authors being far too liberal with what constitutes a Bolt-Gun. In Lore the Astartes Bolter is ment to be extremely dangerous and powerful. But that gets lost in interpretation when Authors write Inquisitor “Self-insert” who are not Astartes but can totally wear Tactical Dreadnaught Armor, with a Astartes Storm Bolter Power-sword and also they are an Alpha level Psyker. What I am getting at is Black Library authors have steadily decreased their attention to “Lore” details. Which is how we get such stupid shit like one story depicting Boltguns tearing through Power Armor and another where the armor holds without issue. This isn’t “Personal Interpretation” but internal inconsistency.

Technically speaking, boltguns have hurt many billions

The Ultramarines movie was fun

​@@fredericmartin7352 mostly Xenos and Heretics but some loyal guardsmen and civilians as well mostly done by Traitors but some friendly fire here and there does happen especially when in a chaotic battlefield intentional or not.

just suxx after the 1 mag they get is empty....

I could hear AHOY say that in my head. Hope his weapons videos remember

Do the deaths of your men mean so little to you? Davian Thule: "Do yours mean so much?"

Stormsurge go burrrrrrr

I belive brother you mean xeno

​@@Fellcat101nope it's alien in the actual quote

hasn't the tau been like winning vs the imperium like 90% of the time? plus i doubt they care about integrating people at all since they usually want to keep to themselves

Ugly, low tech, recommended for dummies only!

I think you meant “symphony”

A thousand boltguns and a million lasguns.

thunkpooooshthunkpoooosh

​@@TeutonicKnight92 I think it's a Nurglian(Freudian) slip. He must be a heretic!.

You made me remember of that Simpsons episode when Homer solve all the things shooting at them.

Then you realize the heretics also uses bolters

@@MesaAufenhand only chaos space marines do, a cultist or mutant is screwed

@@DivineOrange Ork, Chaos cultists, Renegade Imperial guards, Genestealer cults, Tau sympathizers, Necromunda gangs, Hiveworld scavs, and many other enemy of the inperiums that got humanoid fingers uses Bolters.

@@MesaAufenhand bolt pistols not actual bolters it would shatter the spine of a average human

Starcraft has the C14 Gauss rifles (both chemical propellant and the Gauss effect) Alien has their Pulse Rifles (forgot actual designation, but it's basically the Vape of guns) Most scifi can be categorized in 2: do they use energy weapons or not?

Guard-issue lasguns.

​@@videogamer596 do you mean flashlight?

@@satitlertritsumpun8930 I mean, a flashlight that can shear your arm off from a couple football fields away with a single shot is one helluva flashlight

Confused MA5 noise

That requires a text to speech device...

The Emperor Divine is always speaking. But few are loyal enough to hear his edicts in their hearts.

A speech worthy of a floating skull with bright red eyes and a goose pen taking note of it on a scroll.

A-la Shakespeare, perhaps?

"its howling blast is a prayer to the gods of battle" So.....khorne?

*flicks it away with a mere hand gesture.

​@@appo9357 *and that it's the Space Marine's helmet as an insult to injury*

​@@appo9357 That depends on the readiness of that force user. Due to the availability of blaster tech, slug based weapons aren't too much common so your run of the mill padawan, knight, or sometimes even a master might not exactly be ready for a round that moves faster than a blaster bolt and would either blow up/molten metal mist on you if you struck it or go through depending on the round. Granted particularly evasive, powerful, or experienced Jedi like Obi-Wan or Yoda or Sith like Vader or Palpatine would stand a much better chance than some random and lesser force user.

​@@mill2712, bolt rounds aren't really fast either in comparison to bullets.

@@mill2712 Since it was a joke, let’s just go with an experienced and capable Force user.

*Allusions 😉

@@BigStrap Grammar pedants represent! ❤

I imagine weapons like Volkite were probably much more commonplace then.

Dark age stuff is only better in the most rare sense of that word. The common stuff is likely the same as what the Imperium uses on a wide scale now. Literally being what survived to the modern times.

Well, I support this since Leagues of Votann also use them as primary weaponry for many of their troops, but their boltgun pattern is directly plucked from a votann memory banks, and those things are DEFIENIETLY pre-Man-of-Iron uprising dark age tech.

Considering bolters are the most unrealistic, overly complicated & impractical piles of junk ever conceived, no.

@@flameendcyborgguy883 The Votann might not have used memory banks for it, but designed it from the ground up. Though it probably was common knowledge.

Sometimes it makes you wonder why ships aren't installed with defenses that can make entire halls crush or otherwise have a turret do all the shooting instead of squishy human rebels.

You should check out Darktide’s Bolter depiction. It’s hands-down the most powerful gun in the game, and you can watch a single round blow multiple targets in half in real-time.

Its machine spirt would be foul indeed. No weapon should be made without the spark of human divinity imbued into the process.

@@TemplinInstitute The spirit must be awakened somehow.

People already do

@@adman1381 ​​⁠ Perhaps we can put it in the holy wash and cure it before use? Praise be the Omnisiah! 🤖

make sure to rub it in holy oil & praise!

Lets be honest here, if the tabletop was completely accurate to the lore, a guardsmen would cost half a point per model, Tau would be shooting at you from three tables over and a Custodes army would consist of a single model.

the ork make sense because they are really good at believing

@luentin09

They literally already exist

@@BAGELMENSKNot handheld ones. Yet.

@@NCRVeteranRanger RHEINMETALL SSW40 enters the chat

@@NCRVeteranRanger Just because they don't have enough rounds for that.

@@NCRVeteranRanger Inkunzi PAW was a legit working attempt at a boltgun. Sadly never moved past prototype

FOR THE IMPERIUM

You should google the gyro jet, it was basically a bolter irl. (Except it sucked cause it was made in the 19’s lol)

@@Jpeg.g not really, at least in today’s interpretation. As Templin pointed, current bolters are rocket-assisted as opposed to being solely rocket propelled. It’s also well known that the Gyrojet was not a good system either.

if you ever do then the question now is,Will someone be able to fire it without breaking their bones?

It would suck considering either the explosive payload is sacrificed for the rocket or the other way around. Making it 20mm is negating its armor piercing potential too, as real 20mm armor piercing rounds use a smaller tungsten core jacketed by aluminum for it to penetrate, while the bolter would be hollow and the size would only serve to spread out the impact. TLDR it would be really good at killing a person if it ever hit one, but not much else.

The tech? Yes. The materials? Ehhhhhhh I don't think so, unfortunately. Inside your standard 75 cal bolt round is an explosive charge powerful enough to blast a human into a spread of shredded meat and splintered bone, and that's a hit at CENTER MASS. Idk if we possess an explosive powerful enough to do that in such a small quantity. Like, yeah, a bolt round is 3/4s of an inch in diameter, but you can only pack so much boom into one round, y'know?

Fine weapon? Now adays we have rocket-bullet pistol that has no recoil and the Bolter interesting because?

​@@congnghequansuvn474 its also a really ineffective self propelled pistol, so yeah, bolters are way more interesting

@@detroitbecomesurvivaltrain7813 Only because the rocket rounds are too expensive. The same thing can be said to a Bolter rounds

@@congnghequansuvn474 ah but bolter rounds are actually effective for what they do, the gyrojet rounds are too inefficient to mass produce cuz a regular lead core round will do just fine in our modern age

@@congnghequansuvn474 Because its a good summary of the state of humanity in the setting where the apocalypse happened long ago. Humans went from using engines that consume matter into a digitalized form, back to using projectile weapons conceived during our cold war.

Best part is that most of the variants on the bolter don't DO anything, because the differences affect properites of bullets that are utterly nullified by the fact that the 'bullet' is a rocket (trade offs in range and accuracy, mostly. The properties of the rocket completely override any effect the gun could be imparting (if not, the gun would be better off firing regular bullets).

The bolt is a 19mm round, far from a bunker buster missile. It is more akin to an auto cannon in real life.

they're our bread and butter, baby.

Bolt guns use a hybrid system, though. Gyrojets are only self-propelled.

@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen and the way you get those two propulsion systems to actually aim where you want them to go are largely nullified by the effect of the other propulsion system. So that's fun. Also, if the thing Explodes at the end, it has a minimum safe distance Anyway.

Weapon for dummies, those explosive round have less penetration than solid rounds. Even Ork would know that

@@congnghequansuvn474 Did you not watch the video?

@@JimmyAgent007 Of course I did, even with the harden chop it still less penetrative that completely solid round

@@congnghequansuvn474 Even if that were true, what bearing does that have on my original statement?

that man was augmented by the Emperor himself.

Very enthusiastic walks

@@DavidSonofDavid Ok... WHO THE FUCK gave alucard bloody bolt pistols?!

he or sheeee ? hhhh i think they learned the lesson