EVERY SINGLE Boltgun Type/Variant Explained! 

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

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

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

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?".

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

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.

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

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

Lmao man i think you're right

It was before Imperium, in the "golden age"

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Xeelee Sequence says hello. As does the Culture

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

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