Halo Reach leaked shots! (spoilers?)

[FRain]

[ICEE]

such a bad shop.

that is also off topic

[Amit]

Am i the only one who is reminded of the odd assault rifle in first strike that will finds while in the castle base?
"Unlike the MA5B, this rifle had a longer barrel and stock, with a cutdown muzzle shroud.
A scope was mounted on an optics railing along the top of the rifle."

That was the completed BR, was it not?

[=sw=warlord]

That was the completed BR, was it not?

I don't think so as the battle rifle was in contact harvest 20 years before hand.

[Amit]

I don't think so as the battle rifle was in contact harvest 20 years before hand.

The one in contact harvest was a prototype. It was a prototype all the way up to the full production of the weapon in 2551 or 2552.

[=sw=warlord]

The one in contact harvest was a prototype. It was a prototype all the way up to the full production of the weapon in 2551 or 2552.

20 years of development seems a little long when you have a whole alliance of aliens wanting your extermination.
More over why would a bunch of farmers have a experimental rifle that would have little chance to be field tested?

[Amit]

20 years of development seems a little long when you have a whole alliance of aliens wanting your extermination.
More over why would a bunch of farmers have a experimental rifle that would have little chance to be field tested?

Yeah, that would be mind boggling. Either way, I'm quite sure this ugly looking gun is nothing we've heard about before.

[Kornman00]

Well if you think about it, Harvest marked the start of a very nasty war. If the BR was in development then, development/research could easily have been pushed aside or halted. Resources would have been pushed to other areas and weapons depots would have been tapped with blueprints of already approved weapons. In order for a weapon to not only finish the prototype phase and get pushed out, materials need to be allocated for the production and also assembly lines need to be built in order for those resources to be put to use.

During a taxing war like this, you wouldn't have all the time in the world to send the shipments (of which could easily be attacked by the more advance Covie forces) of supplies and personel to create such assembly lines in each part of the galaxy where their is a major UNSC outfit.

Just because it's the future doesn't mean everything is all George Jetson

[Heathen]

Well if you think about it, Harvest marked the start of a very nasty war. If the BR was in development then, development/research could easily have been pushed aside or halted. Resources would have been pushed to other areas and weapons depots would have been tapped with blueprints of already approved weapons. In order for a weapon to not only finish the prototype phase and get pushed out, materials need to be allocated for the production and also assembly lines need to be built in order for those resources to be put to use.

During a taxing war like this, you wouldn't have all the time in the world to send the shipments (of which could easily be attacked by the more advance Covie forces) of supplies and personel to create such assembly lines in each part of the galaxy where their is a major UNSC outfit.

Just because it's the future doesn't mean everything is all George Jetson

I doubt the writers had the ideas of wartime economy in their heads when writing this

[=sw=warlord]

Kornman i seem to remember reading somewhere that technology tends to speed up in war's not slow down, look at the manhattan project for instance, if we hadn't been in such a desparate need to end the war soon we wouldn't have even looked into nuclear weapons.
Many modern technology used these days were made during war time.