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About this mod
This mod brings the compact La France M16-K carbine to the Mojave, complete with custom meshes, textures, sounds, and icons.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
The M16-K was designed and built by Timothy La France of La France Specialties in San Diego from 1982 to 2004. The rifles were built from a mix of existing Colt M16/AR15 parts and custom parts made by La France. The M16-K is essentially a full-auto M16 with an 8-inch barrel and a collapsing stock. La France designed the rifle as an extremely compact machine gun for use in close quarters where maneuverability is a major concern, such as in vehicles or buildings. The guns were marketed exclusively to law enforcement, military, and private defense agencies. A variant of the M16-K in .45 ACP was also produced, which was designed and machined entirely by La France Specialties. In addition to firearms, La France made suppressors and other tactical accessories. In 2004, La France Specialties was acquired by Surefire LLC and its products were then manufactured under the Surefire name, though few M16-Ks have been made since.
In order to make an M16 platform work with an extremely short 8-inch barrel, La France designed a dual-tube gas system which lowers the pressure in the gas tube before it reaches the bolt carrier. In a normal M16 with a 20-inch barrel, the gas block is about 16 inches from the chamber, and the length of the gas tube determines the fire rate since a shorter tube would carry a higher pressure a shorter distance and open the bolt sooner. In order to keep the fire rate constant when the tube is shortened, the M16-K's gas tube is interrupted by a chamber which lowers the pressure of the gas and delays the opening of the bolt. A normal M16 rifle has a fire rate of about 660 RPM. An unmodified M16 with an 8 inch barrel would have a fire rate of around 1300 RPM, double that of a normal M16 since the gas tube is half the length. La France's gas system reduces the fire rate to about 800 RPM.
One of the major drawbacks to the M16K is the extremely loud and intense muzzle blast of a 5.56 NATO round from such a short barrel. When fired in a confined space, the concussion would immediately rupture the shooter's eardrums. La France designed a suppressor specifically for the M16K and other SBRs, designated the M4 HFZ. It is 2 inches in diameter and 12 inches long, bringing the gun back out to the length and weight of a normal M16 but drastically reducing the noise and flash. It brings the gun's enormous 168 dB report down to just 113 dB, which is hearing-safe.
The gun is balanced to do slightly less damage than the vanilla light machine gun, but has a higher fire rate giving it a higher DPS. Also, it has bonus critical damage and chance, and has a unique effect that makes it deal twice as much sneak attack damage if your guns and sneak skills are both above 75. Additionally, it is classed as a basic holdout weapon, so you can sneak it into casinos or the fort even without a sneak skill of 50.
Click here to view the model: https://p3d.in/3yZl8
- Custom mesh
- Custom 2K textures
- Custom sounds
- Custom icon (changed in update 1.2)
- 3 attachments: a suppressor, a scope, and an extended magazine
- Appropriate form list additions
- Base damage: 20
- Base DPS: 260
- Base critical chance multiplier: 4x
- Magazine capacity: 20 (30 with extended mag)
- Base range: 1024
- Base spread: 1.5
- Base weight: 4.75 lbs
- Base value: 3995 caps
The rifle and its mods are sold by Mr. Holdout, the dude in front of the Gomorrah casino. There is also one hidden somewhere in Doc Mitchell's house along with a suppressor.
Meshes, textures, and icon made by TactaGhoul.
Sounds are from Battlefield 4.