EVERY SINGLE Boltgun Type/Variant Explained! 

Unless your cain, in which you find a master crafted bolt pistol and then never use it, cuz the trusty las pistol has saved his life more times than he could count

​@michaelscalese3142 the gigachad of the Imperium

Or, be extremely fucking filled with determination like Yarrick and *o n e h a n d* a *S t o r m B o l t e r* used by *T e r m i n a t o r s* while being almost unaugmented (Save his infamous power klaw, conversion field etc.) AND old at the same time.

@@dominicgorriceta6487 hell yeah

Not really..... They wouldn't or shouldn't make a bang like a gun. Rather a fffffffft like a missle. To see an ACTUAL gyrojet pistol in action, search on RU-vid for gyrojet

It’s mostly artillery and tanks, lasguns are almost useless in universe

Lasguns are just there to highlight targets for the heavy bolter and lascannon crews to do their thing

You mean the Imperial Army. The Imperial Guard like Codex Compliant Space Marine Chapters are but a shell. Of what helped conquer the Galaxy with the combination of the Military and Navy were what led a succesful conquest back in the Great Crusade.

@@TheROOTminus1 Lazer Pointers

You're fkn lame

My reaction exactly. How do you even impregnate metal?

​@@tdpuuhailee8222 very carefully....

Wait... depleted Deuterium? It literally just... fires hydrogen? Like... the lightest material in the universe? LMAO

​@@gae_wead_dad_6914 peashooter

@@gae_wead_dad_6914 Old lore they won't change because it's just too funny. The intention was one of two things: (and no one knows which) 1. To say Uranium, hence the 'depleted' part. 2. To laugh at how so few people would realize what they just said. Being that 40k started as directly satire, I bank on the latter.

I think this fact gives every other race in 40k the same effect. "like how? it works just because you BELIEVE it does? WTH physics?".

Screams in aneurysm 😂

"It just works, innit" - Big Boss Todd 'Oward

More Dakka is more gooder

Lmao man i think you're right

I think they mean heavy water. It still makes no sense, but you got to remember this stuff was written pre-wikipedia days... not that people ever seem to check that stuff anyway even now, but you get the point.

For density alone, osmium would make sense because it is the densest material on earth, and a space faring empire would probably have access to more of the stuff than we do currently.

And deuterium is an stable isotope, it doesn't produce radiation. So... The term Depleted deuterium just makes no sense. It's just heavy hydrogen.

@@iscasko you're righy it was tritium that I was thinking of thats slightly radioactive

Wait, something like that exists?!?!?

@thearchives1094 as I said, it MAY or MAY NOT be canon but yes

Well Deathwatch have a heavy bolter/flamer hybrid

@@alexejvecera6317 sure but it still isnt THE Trinity Gun

HOW DO I GET ONE

Thanks! We’ll keep em coming

Big oof

Nope, they use regular shotguns, categorized as being "stubber weapon"

They are also used by Malum Caedo in Boltgun, one of the most fun weapons imo

Давно такого не хватало, вообще весь дизайн новых пушек прекрасен. Это именно то чего раньше не доставляло в вахе.

And now its in SM2.

That's because it operates like any bullet up to that point. Trigger causes firing pin to strike the primer, primer ignites the propellant in the round, expanding gas propels the round out. Literally bog-standard rifle technology no different than modern day firearms, up until the round becomes rocket-propelled.

​@@dalemorgan8263 this is 100% true, it's basically a hybrid of conventional firearms technology with that of the gyrojet guns

It's also supposed to be a .65 to .75 caliber round, meaning just about every depiction of the round is massively exaggerated. Just doing the math for .75 rounds, the magazine capacity should actually be fine, but the magazine itself accommodates rounds that are at least 3 times longer than a bolter round.

@@Dimetropteryx If it is firing something closer to .50 BMG than a 40mm grenade, the magazine size does make a bit more sense (though, I still don't think you could fit 30 rounds into the "standard" mag like that unless they're like quadruple stacked or something)

@@jooot_6850 Doing some quick math, the rim diameter of a .50 BMG is about .78" or 20mm, so a single stack of 30 is 60cm, or two even 30cm stacks, which I would say fits pretty good in a standard bolter mag.

@@Dimetropteryx eh, shows what I know lmao

The mags are probably quadruple stack for high capacity

​@@Ontheregzit's almost certainly only a double stack at most seeing as the standard mag for a bolter carries 30 rounds at the highest

@@Ontheregz I know that, but look at the magazine well in the 3d animation ! Sure, in a normaly dized mag, you can only fit one row of rounds. But with magazines THICKER THAN THE FOREARM OF THE SHOOTER, it's not the same.

Like many sci fi settings the math on the weapons isn't anywhere near proper. Bolt projectiles resemble 4 bore and 2 bore stopping rifle bullets from the 1800s and early 1900s more than. 75 caliber, which would mean theyd be just a little bit fatter than a 50 cal., but bolts are definitely MUCH larger than those (most people know what 50 cal. looks like so I'm using it for as an example). It reminds me of the scorpion tank in Halo. It fires brass casing 90mm APHE which is an ammo type we haven't used in tanks since WWII; most tank ammo doesn't use casings these days and APHE is terribly outdated but we went back to using it 500 years in the future for some reason.

Well, double stack magazine, .75 caliber, that gives the wall of the magazine.. What? 0.25" *roughly* in thickness. Which sounds like a lot but holding that many bolter rounds would demand a sufficiently sturdy magazine.

It was before Imperium, in the "golden age"

Also wouldn't "depleted Deutrium" just be hydrogen? Since depleted Uranium is just a much less radioactive/more stable version of Uranium 285.

I think the implication is that the he round is actually fusion powered. Badass from a lore perspective but doesn't make sense since the bolts don't incinerate entire squads per shot.

​@@ryetoaster 40k is very "rule of cool" so i don't question it lol

I was going to be that guy

​@@ryetoaster could it be just enough charge to blow up a single target, or is the sorce of propulsion.

The power armor is airtight. Space marines can also breathe underwater.

How do you think SPACE Marines breath in space? Their armor is obviously a space suit!

⁠what @cmmpr111 said. Space Marine power armor can be airtight sealed to prevent water from getting in, and if that doesn’t work all space marines have a third lung that is able to filter water and poisonous toxins.

Most power armor is fully enclosed (looking at you Scouts) And The have been battles fought on the sea/ocean floors in lore.

There's a chapter who's specialized in underwater combat, forgot the name.

And their plasma weaponry doesn't kill the user!

As far as im aware the imperium uses a two stage system with a conventional powder charge to get it out the barrel followed by the jets. So this means what you are saying means votan have gone full gyrojet which would mean caseless ammo at the cost of lacking close range hitting power. Kinda cool to think about imo

I think it's more likely they use a magnetic accelerator instead of a chemical charge to get the initial round out the barrel. Two reasons: 1. The Votann have better tech than the modern Imperium in general. 2. Because they do so much close quarters fighting, anything that would lack close range power wouldn't be widespread.

They are a brotherhood, and they"re an armed force of a state religion

@@KingLich451 No, the armed forces of the state religion are the Sisters of Battle under the Adeptus Ministorum. The space marines are under the authority of the Adeptus Terra. They simply are not "warrior monks".

​@@adrianmillard6598except they are. They do not need to praise the emperor as a god to be a warrior monk type culture. They reside in fortress monasteries, they have the figure of a chaplain, they are a Brotherhood, they refer to their colors and symbols as heraldry and are divided in chapters like the knights crusaders of old, they recite litanies and liturgy, they make use of purity seals, tabards and Bones of martyrs and deceased brothers...

@@vjun8492 Lets ask Wikipedia shall we? "A monk is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation." Space marines aren't part of a religious order. They don't spend their time in prayer. They share things /in common/ with monks but lack fundamentally essential characteristics to be considered monks.

@@adrianmillard6598 Lets ask wikipedia shall we? "Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements[1]-although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.[2][3] Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine,[4] sacredness,[5] faith,[6] and a supernatural being or beings." Budhist monks do not believe in God. You do not need to believe in God to be a monk. Astartes have more in common with monks than not. They do "pray" tho. They recite litanies, cathecisms and mantras before and during battle which is in itself a form of contemplation.

Yeah, it's a prime example of a SF author pulling technobabble out of their ass, mashing up science terms to make something that ends up being absolute nonsense, like Star Trek's dilithium crystals. Clearly the inspiration was depleted uranium's use in real world munitions for its density and pyrophoric properties, but they didn't want something that would sound like a technology developed in the 20th century, so they swapped out for probably the worst choice to swap out for. Freelance Artist Philip Sibbering, whose work has adorned at least a few official 40k Novel covers, came up with the headcanon idea that the Deuterium is actually being used in a Thyratron, a vacuum tube -like electronic component filled with gas that is sometimes used in radar applications. He also came up with an explanation of how it could be "Depleted", as it was a potential byproduct of a multi-stage hydrogen enrichment process. "Phillhammer" is in no way an official explanation, but it at least answers the question.

​@@radwolf76 40k tends to follow the "rule of cool" so i wouldn't question it too much

I think they wanted it to sound cool without just stating hydrogen. Nonetheless, I'm sure it'll still function the same as hydrogen is very explosive with the right oxygen mixtures. If i had to guess how it works and make sense of this, the Diamantine tip penetrates and sets off the mass reactive detonator which then sets the ignition charge off. The ignition charge injects compressed oxygen into the encased hydrogen core which then ignites it and builds up pressure till it explodes and sends shrapnel tumbling throughout the victim. But again, it's honestly best chalked up to the rule of cool though.

well, the one we use in darktide is a much, MUCH smaller version of a bolt gun fit for a normal human. if we use the one space marines use, our arms would literally fly off.

​@@KingdonIV and even then that's if we could lift it, prolly only the ogryn could lift a space marine bolter

So if a bolter round hits something harder than itself it will shatter and hence won't explode.

@@terrelldurocher3330 That's the innate issue with armor piercing high explosive rounds. The structural integrity of the shell is weakened by containing a powdered explosive filler rather than a solid metal slug. A solid shot AP rounds will almost always penetrate more than its APHE counterpart. I think it would make more sense if bolters fired a HEAT round, as HEAT rounds can both act as an armor penetrator, but are also explosive by nature. In modern tanks, HEAT (and to some extent, HESH) rounds are used both as anti vehicle and anti personnel rounds.

@@jooot_6850 I learnt more here, than one week of history combined together, respect and have a good day.

I think it would make more sense, both realistically and thematically, for bolters to be belt-fed and more like a mobile automatic grenade launcher that feeds through a backpack of some kind. Would make them look even more killer by giving each Astartes like 1,000 rounds to use without ever having to reload!

Space Marines do have pouches to carry extra magazines. It could also be magnetized to their armor. They can have ammo supplies dropped to them from orbit. Or they may have a retinue of serfs, servitors, etc following behind the Space Marine force and running supplies and ammo when called for. Many models and other media just doesn't show this for some reason.

And explode

@@dravengarcia8658 fair enough, I'm guessing a normal human would be obliterated with just one of those bullets

A .996 projectile would be kinda like a .950JDJ, huge, but not that big

@@marrvynswillames4975 fair enough.

WH40k ignores all reason with auto-senses and recoil-puffering armor etc.

In the grim darkness of the far future...aiming is for losers

Smh. The rfb is a amazing. It's insides are like an alien spacecraft per complexity, but my God it's good.

Love those thick guns

Good daka

The Xeelee Sequence says hello. As does the Culture

The fleets in Andromeda and LOTGH would like to have a friendly chat.

They are larger 75 caliber > 50