>>64130127
Inherently having more and larger parts creates more friction points that *should* result in a bullpup trigger of similar engineering prowess to be inferior to a standard configuration. Increasing engineering would decrease the delta between the two. And I emphatically disagree that combat rifles need bad triggers because conscripts. You can have heavy triggers that feel good (if you still feel the need to not have low weight triggers), and that can easily be replicated in an electronic trigger.
>>64130153
So do small arms. Your maintenance footprint would be changing a battery and ensuring a copper wire is properly insulated with soldering still intact. Being that we're moving towards aim bot vortex optics for mass integration that would be a much higher maintenance and training bar. This is incredibly basic skills that even a bag warming army chef can accomplish. The largest argument against would be artic conditions which would royally fuck up battery life and require a higher standard of condensation management.
>>64135370
This is fair. But I want one. We had the chance to completely innovate ammunition and firearms and instead of progressing we're iterating. The fact that there is so much untapped potential from adjustable fire rate, trigger pull, remote operation, ammunition designation etc was squandered is very disappointing.
