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Weapon Name- KG-35 Battle Rifle
Round Type- 7.8mm x 56mm
Over-all length- 36.5 inches, 40.3 inches
Barrel length- 18.5 inches, 22.3 inches
Weight- 9.7 lb
Rate of Fire- 540 RPM
Feed Mechanism- Detachable box magazine
Round Capacity- 10, 24
Effective Range- 500 meters
Range- 1200 meters
Accuracy- 1.5 MOA
Accessories- Flip-up sights, Bipod, Carrying Handle
Quick switch firing mechanism- N/A
Scope/Sights- Flip-up sights, Bipod, Carrying Handle
Muzzle Velocity- 808 m/s, 11.3 grams (3680 joules) - 840 m/s (4000 joules)
Firing System- Delayed Blowblack
Miscellaneous/electronic information- The weapon utilizes a delayed blowback mechanism, but it is similiar to the FG42 in many ways, including the long action designed to reduce felt recoil, the cylindrical chamber designed to reduce pressure levels, the ejection forwards in front of the gun, and elements of it's ergonomics and external design.





The weapon utilizes a delayed blowback mechanism, but it is similiar to the FG42 in many ways, including the long action designed to reduce felt recoil, the cylindrical chamber designed to reduce pressure levels, the ejection forwards in front of the gun, and elements of it's ergonomics and external design. The weapon also makes use of a muzzle break, based on the FG42 variant. A hybrid of the more modern CETME design and FG42, it's goal is to copy the long action and low recoil of the FG42, and combine it with the simpler and more reliable delayed blowback operation. The simplicity also allows for the additional bolt mass to be located on top, and the magazine to be loaded from the bottom. Unlike the FG42, the piston-like feature merely adds bolt mass and stability, and thus simplifies the operation substantially. The weapon has very little felt recoil when firing, in part due to the action, low rate of fire, high weight and muzzle break, making it very controllable for it's weight. Attempts to use it as a rifle were largely unsuccessful, both due to it's excessive weight and low magazine capacity in this configuration, and instead it was adopted primarily as a light machine gun to replace the BAR and other similiar weapons such as the Bren gun. While perhaps considered far superior than these in many ways, it still falls short of a true machine gun, and falls in the middle between various comparable battle rifles and machine guns. The weapon produces a noticeably large muzzle flash given the shorter barrel in most configuration (18.5 inches) and the muzzle break, however the muzzle break acts partially as a flash hider which reduces this flash to an extent. Newer cartridges tend to use low-flash powder, which have also alleviated this effect somewhat, particularly improving the usefulness of the firearm at night. Despite it's high quality, it's heavy weight made it less useful as a battle rifle and it's low magazine capacity noncompetitive with most modern belt fed machine guns, rendering it a somewhat obsolete weapon, despite it's otherwise high quality construction.

The typical barrel length is 18.5 inches long, after it was found that the 22 inch barrel only provided marginally extra power, and an 18.5 inch barrel was considered sufficient for use out to 600 yards, where the weapon was realistically expected to be used. This had the consequence of increasing the flash of the rifle somewhat, but this was later reduced in various ways, with a flash suppressor and low-flash gunpowder. The rifle achieves fairly good accuracy, between 1 and 1.5 MOA on average, varying somewhat in standard issue rifles given the lower level of quality control. Elite units tend to prefer the more accurate guns and hand-select their rifles for accuracy, but practically out to 600 yards and beyond the accuracy is typically sufficient for most combat situations. The incredibly low recoil allows for quite follow up shots, and reduces how much ammunition is needed for suppressive fire, which is important for infantry combat. The goal is to use short, controlled bursts or rapid semiautomatic fire and use the weapon more as a fast-shooting marksmen rifle than a true machine gun, allowing the weapon to be much lighter and allow the soldier to carry less ammunition to do the same job. Following in the same trend as the infantry automatic rifle, it proved to be more reliable and accurate than a standard battle rifle, as well as more heat resistant, allowing for accuracy to compensate in part for the lower volume of fire. This is not too dissimilar from the RPK or M27 IAR, designed to fulfill the same niche role. Nonetheless it's low magazine capacity and lack of being belt fed has made it largely considered to be an obsolete weapon, despite it's incredibly low recoil.

The weapon has very little felt recoil and has almost no muzzle climb, allowing for rapid follow up shots. The low rate of fire, long smooth action, muzzle break, dual spring recoil guide rod, and muzzle break all contribute to the low recoil of the gun, with the long action being similiar to the AR-15, FG42 and M1941 johnson machine gun. The heavy bolt also contributes to this partially, lowering the rate of fire, and absorbing some of the recoil. The long action allows for the energy to defuse over space, and this long receiver is concealed within the stock, making the weapon somewhat of a hybrid between a bullpup and standard configuration rifle. Like in the FG42 this makes the weapon very easily controllable, especially in fully automatic fire, and when laying prone with a bipod has very little muzzle climb. This makes rapid follow up shots rather easy. Functioning more like a marksmen rifle than a machine gun, it's design allows for accurate aimed shots at long range, and thus allows for accuracy to be used over volume of fire for suppression. In various studies, tests showed that rounds that were closer to the enemy were more likely to suppress them, and given the lack of ammunition a soldier could carry, the weapon as optimized for accuracy for this reason. Despite it's heavy weight, it's overall length is actually quite small, making it somewhat maneuverable in close quarters combat, being about as long as most carbines or assault rifles of the era, and shorter than an M16. Being back heavy it is also easier to hold and maneuver, being better balanced making it easier to shoulder and carry.

The weapon could be considered an ideal infantry automatic rifle, coming in too late for use in WWII, but exceeding the BAR or BREN in capabilities. It is very well sealed off from the environment and comes with a spring-loaded dust cover, which can be removed, that further helps seal it from the environment. While the action of the FG42 could be finnicky, the more reliable delayed blow back operation is able to withstand extensive abuse, and it being more sealed off from the environment prevents the fouling normally associated with many WWII-era weapons. The magazines ranged between 10 and 24 rounds, with 24 being chosen as the amount that could be used without making the magazines too large or unreliable. This is only a minor improvement over the 20 round magazine of the BAR, but exhaustive tests were done to optimize magazine capacity, even if only slightly over other comparative guns, with the BREN generally being less reliable due to it's magazines and the BAR holding too few rounds. The slightly smaller cartridge also contributed to this, being marginally smaller than the .30-06, and firing a similar 7.62mm cartridge the BC of the cartridge was quite high, at around .55 G1 BC, giving it a much longer range than the standard .30-06 at .35 BC, and slightly longer range than the sniper at .5 BC. This in part contributed to it's accuracy and range, as well as low recoil, giving it an edge over many other battle rifles at the time. As well the cartridges are only 22.5 grams, given it's longer case with more powder, being over 3 inches long, vs. the heavier but shorter 2.75 inch 7.62mm NATO at 25.5 grams. This slight advantage allows a slightly larger amount of ammunition to be carried, and the aluminum magazines further reduced the weight of carrying them, allowing more round to be carried over the BAR, in magazines that could be used be the rifles at the time. A typical combat load-out was either 13 magazines (12 in the vest and 1 in the gun) at 1.35 pounds each for 17.5 pounds for 312 rounds, 19 magazines at 25.5 pounds for 456 rounds, or 25 magazines at 33.75 pounds for 600 rounds.