Marine Carbine Phaser Mk1
From Obsidian Fleet Database
Firing Type: Beam
Size: 70cm x 20cm x 20cm
Weight: 5kg
Range: 100m (accurate) 300m (maximum)
Settings: 1-12
After lessons learned during the dominion war where close quarters combat was commonplace and often resulted in unacceptable losses, SFMC issued a design order to manufacture a lighter, more effective CQB (close quarter battle) version of the standard phaser rifle. The result of this was the phaser Carbine To reduce the overall length of the Carbine massive internal modifications were made. The targeting assistance of this weapon is extremely limited; typically a laser dot sight instead of the complex systems of the Mk17 given the more intuitive benefit of actually showing where the shot will hit. A collapsible stock is fitted to the carbine increasing the stability of the weapon in medium range engagements The real improvement for close range engagement, however, is the capability to fire in longer pulse mode. This allows faster target engagements, and quicker follow up shots. The downside to this is that the Carbine lacks the variable settings of its rifle counter part.
