MR-C

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Modular Rifle - Caseless
Type	Concept Assault Rifle
Place of origin	USA
Production history
Designer	Crye Associates
Designed	2005, circa
Specifications
Cartridge	6.8 mm caseless
Action	Gas-operated reloading
Rate of fire	900 rounds/min
Feed system	45 or 50 round magazine

The Modular Rifle - Caseless (MR-C), is a theoretical design for a weapon intended to be manufactured and sold to the United States military as a next-generation infantry weapon. It has yet to be produced – even in prototype form – and the weapon was never entered into the OICW or follow-up rifle competition recently held by the US military. Most information circulating on the rifle is derived from the video game Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and should not be taken as fact. Any weapon eventually produced from these preprototype plans may vary significantly from the fictional realisation.

Designed by Crye Associates, the assault rifle is planned to utilize a bullpup design using caseless ammunition with an all sides rail interface system. By most accounts the real world version will be chambered for 6.8 mm caliber in 45 or 50 round magazines, unlike its video game counterpart that is chambered in both 6.8 mm, and 5.56 x 23mm according to Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. The rifle is projected to have a cyclic rate of 900 rounds per minute. It is also shown to have a special 40 mm grenade launcher attachment known as the AGL. The AGL in the game, however, is a modified version of the real world Enhanced Grenade Launcher Mount designed for the FN SCAR rifles. Note that the possible variants of the MR-C are not yet known. In most of the pictures, the gun is seen painted in Crye Precision-pattern.