Shnercropolis wrote:The Anglo-Saxon Empire wrote:It is called testing, we do it to all of our weapons, and a lot of it. When it comes to distributing new equipment we do it based on experience, less experienced units are given newer equipment first, followed by more experienced units. Since the less experienced units have less experience with their current equipment, and have become less attached to it they will be less likely to hold a bias against new equipment. Regardless, we don't waste money on a combat unit that does nothing but see how useful the newest toys are, and even if we did, the biggest differences between them and regular soldiers would be fancy new rifles or something.
Even with the rate at which we adopt new technologies and ideas, a research unit still serves no real purpose, and we adopt all of the newest weapons and equipment when it is developed.
that sounds frighteningly expensive, having to switch out weapons every few months.
We don't switch them out every few months, although we constantly update the ones we have as far as we can or until there is a revolution. For example, our standard assault rifle is the CLAWS-2010 (it is an acronym), since it is so new, most of the military is instead armed with the older CLAWS-2000. The two weapons are closely related, with the latter being able to be modified into the former without too much cost in time, money or manpower. Another example is the MBT, the LBM-92, which was first introduced in 1992, since than it has had upgrades to its electronics, weapons, and armour, while still being mostly the same internally as the original, the main difference being the ETC gun instead of a regular gun on the newer versions.
Besides, the World Eaters are known to be somewhat... unstable, limiting their use as anything besides berserker shock troops.
