Shotguns In Your Military

[Kelwona]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?
What roles are they used in?

The Kelwonan Army currently uses the Remington 870 Express. There are two main environments where the weapon is issued to soldiers, urban and jungle. In urban environments the Remington 870 Express is commonly used for door breaching and room clearing. In jungle environments, such as those that cover a large part of Kelwona, the Remington 870 Express is issued to two soldiers in each squad. They are able to fire a reasonable amount of buckshot towards the enemy if they are ambushed.

[Portugal 2874]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?
Two models at least:

Bravia SSH32 Semi-Auto Shotgun

and the Bravia SSHA22 Auto Shotgun

What roles are they used in?
Close Quarters Combat and Assault

[Samozaryadnyastan]

Samozniy forces use the SA-CS-1 (Samozniy Arms Combat Shotgun 01), known as the Grizzly.

It's a semi-automatic gas-operated shotgun firing 12-gauge shells from a 12-round magazine. One day, there will be lineart.
We're working on under-barrel shotguns to mount to rifles, but to save weight and cost these would probably be pump-action models.

[Great Anthonland]

The Great Greenlandic Army uses 3 different types of shotguns. The Remington 870 for door breaching, the SPAS-12 for urban and close quarters combat, and the AA-12 for special operations.

[Imeriata]

Regular

Decorated
KVG 09-Hagel gevar (Shotgun)

Designer: Erika auf Sadersjö
Designed: 1989
Manufacturer: the royal merchant guild (the Sadersjö arm forge)
Produced: 1990- present

Specifications
Weight: 3.6 kg loaded
Length: 675mm
Barrel length: 350 mm
Cartridge: 10 gauge, 12 gauge Khönungskot
Calibre: 19.7 mm calibre
Muzzle velocity: 800 m/s
Effective range: 35 m
Rate of fire: Semi-Automatic
Action: gas operated semi automatic.
Feed system: Individual loading.

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The Hagel gevar of the KVG-09 series is mostly used by Jägare, grenadiers and Starmstyrkor to clean out trenches and in close combat that might occur in cities.

[Kalumba]

Kalumba currently makes use of a limited number of Striker 'Protecta' model shotguns.

[Novariea]

The Novariean Military uses the following shotguns:

[Bajireyn]

The Mk.10A2 shotgun

[Cresilia]

The Mk.10A2 shotgun
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( fail, it clearly says "PROPERTY OF MICROSOFT". Are you the Microsoft Corporation?)

Cresilia rarely uses shotguns, preferring to engage at a distance.

[Saurisisia]

The M50 shotgun, in service with the Saurisian Armed Forces since the very beginning of the Revolution:



And the M5 shotgun, recently serviced to replace the venerable M50:

[Romanium Imperium]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?
The Franchi SPAS-12 and Franchi SPAS-15
What roles are they used in?
Combat Support - Room Clearing - Door Breaching in a pinch - Heavy Assault Breaching

Of all of the things we dislike the Italian Empire for, we must admit; they make excellent splatterguns.

[Costa Fiero]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?
Officially, the Gendarmaria is the only branch of the Armed Forces to use a shotgun. They use the Benelli M4 shotgun. However, the Fuerzas Especiales also use the M4 for operations.



What roles are they used in?
In Gendarmaria service, they are loaded with rubber bullets and bean bags and used for suspect aprehension and crowd dispersal when riots occur. When loaded with live ammunition, they are used for urban support and door-breaching.

[Amerikians]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?
The M1897 Trench Gun
The Mossberg 500
What roles are they used in?
Close Quarters Combat - Room Clearing - Room Breaching - Trench Sweeping - General Dismemberment of People Who Piss Us Off.

[Grays Harbor]

Shotguns are not a standard issue item for our military. While they may some limited application for urban warfare, we find them far too imprecise and indiscriminate. For any situation where they may be applicable, we use instead grenade launchers assigned to a platoon or squads grenadier. Much the same effect without depriving a soldier of their standard combat rifle. We leave the shotguns to duck hunters and skeet shooting.

[Anemos Major]

Designer: IFAM/Arsenal Karonin IECpl
Designed: 2010
Manufacturer : IFAM
Unit cost: 1600 NSD
Produced: 2011-present
Number built: ~9,000,000

Weight: 3.5 kg unloaded, 3.8 kg loaded
Length: 798 mm
Barrel length: 566 mm (22.28 in)
Cartridge: 12-gauge (metal casings)
Action: Gas-operated (short-stroke gas piston), rotating bolt
Rate of fire: Semi-automatic
Effective range: 36 m (118 ft)
Feed system: 8-round detachable box magazine
Sights: Dual-mode accessory diopter sight and front post, flip up, Deimos interface system for optics.

Background

Despite the wave of updated weaponry sweeping across the Anemonian Armed Forces in the 2005-2011 period, very little attention was given to the niche filled by the combat shotgun on the modern battlefield. It was widely believed that, between underslung grenade launchers, door breaching rifle grenades, close quarters combat carbines and various explosives, the battlefield utility of employing a 12 gauge shotgun was highly limited. Consequently, the adoption of such a weapon was stalled even further, making Anemos Major one of the few existing nations with a modern armed forces which had a stockpile of absolutely no 12-gauge (or similar shells) rounds for usage if necessary.

In the vast majority of cases, the wide beliefs held by staff officers concerning the utility of the combat shotgun were validated. However, as combat in the war torn nation of Asakura further intensified, it was found that the one round capacity of the 40mm launcher made its shotgun shells near-useless in close combat, while Fleet Security's exposure to foreign troops' utilisation of combat shotguns incited them to put forward a request to Arsenal Karonin concerning the experimental development of an indigenous shotgun model. The costs of creating what was widely considered to be a niche weapon led the Anemonian General Staff to turn down procurement orders from both Fleet Security and Crown Army personnel deployed in Asakura; however, the concept was intriguing enough to warrant intervention by the First Marshal, who authorised state funded initial development. Recognising that a wholly new design would be difficult to sell to the Crown Army, the single largest prospective buyer of the weapon, IFAM opted towards a modification of the AR9 frame instead, making use of the weapon's modularity to modify the weapon's internals without modifying too much of the frame, submitting a final design in late 2010 with some input from Arsenal Karonin concerning the forward ejection port of the weapon.

Due to the design's low production costs thanks to its frame commonality with the AR9, and increasingly frequent requests from the Asakuran front, the Holy Office of War permitted an initial limited production run of 50,000 models of the weapon for distribution to Fleet Security and the Karonin Guard, and field testing in Asakura where its performance will decide its future with the Armed Forces. 10,000 models of the weapon have also been obtained in an initial purchase by the Holy Office of Internal Affairs due to its excellent performance in close quarters combat.

Role and Design

Though its outward appearance is reminiscent of the AR9, as is to be expected, the modification of the weapon to utilise the 12-gauge shell created some noticeable problems at the development stage for the weapon, while other potential problems were found to have been solved naturally by the AR9's original design.

The two problems that initially plagued IFAM before their adoption of the AR9 platform were the creation of a weapon suited to close quarters, and one capable of handling the recoil of the 12 gauge in a semi-automatic platform. However, two aspects of the AR9's design solved these problems satisfactorily; the bullpup layout of the AR9 meant that the semi-automatic SF2 was as space efficient as possible, making it highly accurate and yet compact for a close quarters weapon. The recoil was solved by the hydraulic recoil buffer stock incorporated into the AR9 frame; originally introduced in an attempt to control the 6.7mm cartridge in full auto, it was found that it satisfactorily dealt with the 12 gauge shell's recoil as well.

However, the main problem with the rechambering of the weapon was the utilisation of the forward ejection system. The close quarters combat value of the system made it invaluable for such a combat shotgun, but the potential for jamming posed by the plastic shell casings was equally devastating, necessitating a review of the weapon's design. However, this problem was eventually solved in a twofold manner; by replacing these plastic casings with metal, the potential for jamming was almost entirely removed (alongside the increase in the ejection tube's size) whilst increasing the longevity and durability of 12-gauge rounds in Anemonian service. Problems with the increased shock of the 12 gauge's recoil damaging the receiver were remedied by strengthening the weapon's action. Overall, the SG2 is a highly effective shotgun system; with a modified forward ejection system and a bullpup layout, it is optimised for combat in the close quarters environment where it excels, while other innovations like the hydraulic recoil buffer stock of the AR9 further increase its utility and precision as a weapon. Magazine-fed, the weapon is far faster to reload than a tube-fed design with similar capabilities; despite its limited use within Anemonian doctrine, the SG2 is a highly effective combat shotgun, one suited to its natural combat environmental with some significant advantages over its competitors.

[Chuporosa]

SPAS-12. Also, I know this isn't a shotgun but we sometimes use Buffalo Rifles see below.

[Wikipedia and Universe]

Our primary shotguns are as follows:

The Benelli M4 Super 90, or M1014

The AA-12 Automatic Shotgun

[Ruskarkand]

We in Ruskarkand use the DMF-DShK-mod. Automatic Shotgun


Light and easy for any Dragoon to use.

[Novograd IV]

If we're going to use a low-range, low-accuracy, high-spread weapon in an environment where most firearms are the opposite of the three points stated, we'd have to do it right, that means no pump-action shotguns.

While in minimal use, Novan forces may occasionally purchase various specialist arms from allied countries should the need call for it.

[Sciox]

Universally all branches of the Sciox Military and Police use the ICS-4 shotgun, both the standalone and mounted versions, although soldiers prefer to use it for the ICS-4's low velocity grenade rounds.

Standalone version.


Mounted version, attached to an ICR-8 assault rifle.

[Novograd IV]

Universally all branches of the Sciox Military and Police use the ICS-4 shotgun, both the standalone and mounted versions, although soldiers prefer to use it for the ICS-4's low velocity grenade rounds.
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Standalone version.

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Mounted version, attached to an ICR-8 assault rifle.

googlol sketchup?

[Sciox]

Universally all branches of the Sciox Military and Police use the ICS-4 shotgun, both the standalone and mounted versions, although soldiers prefer to use it for the ICS-4's low velocity grenade rounds.
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Standalone version.

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Mounted version, attached to an ICR-8 assault rifle.

googlol sketchup?

Yep, 3d for the win.

[The Twenty Lies]

What shotguns do your armed forces have in service?


Cheap and easy to operate double barrel shotguns. Sawed-off versions are also available.



Cheap and easy to operate pump-action shotguns.

What roles are they used in?

They are typically used in close quarters and room clearing operations. Sawed-off shotguns are issued for tight spaces due to their small size and maneuverability.

[Vrijswiek]

We have no ordinary shotgun, we almost never use shotguns in the military.

[Zebian Syndicate]

Ah, the humble shotgun! Well,... the only thing we have that is "special" and hasn't already been stated is the Large Scale Tactical Assault Cannon.


It is basically a huge shotgun that fires shells as big as your head.
It also makes walls,.... disappear! /mystique
*insert fancy hands flourish here, add confetti as seen fit.*