Weapons and Marksmanship

This manual covers the issue, safe employment and tactical techniques associated with infantry weapon employment. This manual does not cover specilaity weapon systems such as Automatic Rifles, Grenade Launchers or DMRs.

Weapon Safety

All weapons in the 1st RRF come with a safety mechanism which should be engaged when outside of a combat area or live fire range. By default the safety is toggled by pressing `Ctrl + ~` and will prevent the weapon from firing.

Friendly fire instances are treated extremely seriously under the disciplinary policy so it is important that members maintain the rules of weapon safety when operating in the battlespace.

The Rules of Weapon Handling

  1. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to kill. The weapon should remain in the rest position when not in use.
  2. In safe areas where security is maintained, magazines should be removed from the weapon system or on supporting weapons the safety engaged.
  3. Do not discharge your weapon for any reason other than combat engagement ( Celebration Shots and Direction Indicating Shots risk lives and waste ammunition )

Issued Weapons

In the RRF infantry are permitted to modify their rifle to their liking including the visual appearance and spray colour, the type of optic and additional furniture. All infantry must carry at least a AN/PEQ15 laser module but may opt to also carry a flashlight in addition to their PEQ15.

Ammunition Management

Standard ammunition issue for a RRF infantryman is 1 magazine in the weapon, 6 in the vest and 3 in the rucksack.

Partial magazines should be retained and can be repacked using the ACE interaction menu when there is a lull in combat that provides sufficient time and security to do so.

All issued infantry weapon system are magazine cross compatible with the exception of the 7.62 DMR which uses it’s own magazines. As such FTLs will attempt to balance ammunition between different members of the fire team to maintain a uniform quantity of ammo within the team.

Danger

RRF infantry should not pickup enemy weapons. In the event that an element is rendered entirely black on ammunition command has the option to modify the ROE to allow the use of enemy weapons.

Types of Fire

Type of Fire are the different paces and accuracy of fire that can be employed.

Point Fire

This is the most basic and inuitive type of fire. It involves accurately aiming at and hitting the target - with each shot being aimed and placed.

Point fire is typically used when the enemy is exposed and can be acquired and engaged precisely. Examples would be ambushing an enemy squad in the open or engaging a particular target inside a designated building.

Area Fire

Area fire is used to engage a specific area instead of a specific target. This can be used to engage enemy units that are obscured, massed or beyond the effective range of the element’s point fire capability.

During Area fire the shooters will identify areas that they know or suspect the enemy will be and focus on providing concentrated volumes of fire as opposed to well placed accuracy. The underlying theory is that the more rounds that are delivered downrange the higher the chance of hitting the enemy or effectively suppressing them.

Area fire involves firing at a higher rate than point fire but at a significantly lower rate than suppressing fire.

Suppresing Fire

Suppressing fire involves placing a large volume of rounds on the enemy position so that they are unable to return effective fire.

In order for suppression to be effective against an enemy the enemy must believe they are in danger of being hit by the suppresive fire. This means that although the pace of fire is fast the fire must remain within a close vicinity to the enemy position so as to keep them pinned.

Suppresive fire makes heavy use of ammunition and will normally be drawn down to area or point fire to conserve ammunition once fire supperiority has been established.

Weapon Malfunctions

During use weapons will become hot which increases the possiblity of a weapon jam occuring.

To clear a weapon jam open the ACE interaction menu and select “Clear Jam” under the Equipment options.