Shwetz Armament Company

Assets

Patents

Shwetz Armament Company Ltd, founded in AC1162, possessed patents for the following inventions.

• Detachable Box Magazine Conversion for Ismere G37 and K39, enforceable from AC1161 to AC1186
• Telescopic Straight-Pull Operation for Firearms, enforceable from AC1165 to AC1190
• Steel Barrel Jacket, enforceable from AC1165 to AC1190
li]Magazine Clip, enforceable from AC1165 to AC1190. Government exception made for Gelbmann BG83.
• Flapper-Locking Straight-Pull Operation for Firearms, enforceable from AC1174 to AC1199
• Cardboard Charger Clip, enforceable from AC1174 to AC1199
• Wind Crystal Impingement System for Firearms, enforceable from AC1180 to AC1205

History

Beginnings

Ayla Shwetz was born in Ismere in AC1135 and had a lifelong fascination with firearms, receiving her first personal firearm in AC1146, a single shot target pistol. She would go on to become a field armorer at the age of 19 during the Denidarian War, making her more familiar with the construction of her nation's rifles.
After the war, she was reassigned to an armory and military compound constructed in their new territory. She lived on the compound for some time, working as a guard to the storage areas and factory floor. While not on-duty she made modifications to her K39 service carbine, modifications that proved extremely useful when Denidarian nationals attacked the armory in an attempt to resist their occupation.
She had modified her outdated single-shot carbine to feed from a simple magazine of her own design, a single stack, top fed magazine that held eight PR11.3x36mm cartridges, one standard issue paper packet for use in the later K39/50 carbine. This allowed greater suppressive fire capability at a reload speed far faster than the single shot carbine for as long as spare magazines were on hand, without the drawbacks of the tubular magazine found in the K39/50 carbine and G37/49 infantry rifle, namely the change in balance and barrel harmonics, and fragile forestocks.

The magazine of the rifle used a simple flat piece of sheet steel formed around a curved steel rod and a matching square bar. The floorplate was made from the same sheet steel, and the spring and follower was made from a long flat spring. It was a fairly simple conversion to make, with a square hole cut into the bottom of the receiver and stock and a strengthening plate added to the underside of the stock.
The conversion was done to a handful of rifles from the armory's inventory in AC1161 as a proof of concept, and were presented as a competitor to Denidaria's new SS-LM55/57, a bolt-action, box magazine fed rifle. Under instruction from her close friends on base, she patented the box magazine K39/61 conversion and a hypothetical G37/61 conversion process and six round magazine before presenting the pattern to the military in the same year.

The negotiations started rocky, with the government of Ismere initially attempting to seize her patents on the basis of her being employed in the military at the time, but the courts ruled that since arms design was not her occupation, the patents were developed on personal time. This allowed her to seek payment for her patents. To make her money, a licensing fee for both conversions and new production M61 rifles would require a flat payment of 112.5 million Ismere Kronen, equal to 10.7 million dollars in 2019. This would provide 150 Kronen for each of the 750 thousand rifles in the country, including both rifles and carbines.
Ayla Shwetz retired from the military at the age of 27 to create the Shwetz Armament Company Headquarters in AC1162. Their first contracts included creating new production G61 and K61 rifles for the military at a cost of 1500 IK apiece, 150 Kronen cheaper than the armories were charging for the same work. Production would amount to over 1.8 million total rifles including the conversions and new production until its replacement in AC1166.

A New Contender

In AC1165, Ayla had produced the first prototypes that would become the Shwetz Repeating Rifle, Model AC1166. A feature that the rifle had over others used by the surrounding nations was options allowing for great versatility. The rifle would see adoption by Ismere as a main infantry rifle, and by Ebenland in smaller numbers for testing as the Von Strauss M35/60 was serving its purpose well. A second Shwetz factory would be opened to produce the pattern at a faster rate.

A straight-pull bolt and en-bloc clip were standard on Ismere's military pattern as the clips were far cheaper than magazines and loaded just as quickly, but the rifle could be easily adapted to box magazines and a turn-bolt if they were wanted. Magazine configuration could not be changed in the field, but bolts could be swapped easily. Features carried over from the previous M49A1 were few. The rear sight, unlike that of the M61 rifles and carbines, was set up for use with P-Type charges. A flat setting (marked "E") was used to align the front and rear sight with the bore, used for a traditional neutral charge, and tangent rear sight settings for use with projectiles with a minimum range of 200 meters, and a maximum of 1 kilometer.

In addition to the long rifle, a carbine was made to replace the K39/61. It was functionally identical, sharing a cartridge with the rifle as opposed to emulating the K39/61's short cartridge

Its 6.75x58mm cartridge was a change made to emulate Denidaria's use of P-Type charges in the Denidarian war as a cost saving measure, with smaller amounts of cheaper metals and soulstone required to create the charge as the metal was not at risk of being completely destroyed by the charge's energy. Low silver content in the barrel allowed it to be used with traditional charges as well, strictly for unknown distance long range shooting and utility purposes such as incendiary and flash charges.
Many remaining active service G61s were converted to 6.75x58mm to supply troops with the new ammunition while waiting on rifles. Most of the remaining stock of 11.3mm charges were either converted to P-Type for training or surplused off to civilians.

A shorter 6.75x30mm cartridge was made for K61s, and would come to be known as the first dedicated intermediate cartridge, at the time known as a "smallbore magnum pistol cartridge" to hint at its predecessor, R11.3x36mm, a large revolver cartridge that the K39, K39/50, and K39/61 were chambered in.

When compared to later intermediate cartridges such as Sterlina's P7.78x35mm, Ivanovka's P7.7x35mm, and Hisakawa's P6.85x46mm, it was slightly underpowered in its original loading, leading to its reclassification to a "carbine cartridge" due to a fairly short effective range, like Kobeula's series of automatic carbine cartridges. The later 6.75mm Kurz+ loading used in the StKM88 regained an intermediate designation.
Civilians often preferred traditional charges for their reusability, so "neckless" F6.75x50mm charges loaded traditionally with neutral cores and gold/copper alloy cases are offered to civilians in place of P6.75x58mm cartridges.

Distant Infringements

In AC1169, the Shwetz company was informed that Tekhat was producing rifles using Shwetz's clip loading magazine system. They had produced their rifle from modified Hisakawa P11 actions and illegally paired them with Shwetz's magazine. They had already produced tens of thousands of rifles, so Shwetz sought payment for the use of their patents.

The settlement that was reached disallowed Tekhat's export of the rifle and allowed Shwetz to produce the rifle in Ismere. Tekhat would later avoid this restriction by selling production tooling for the N.70 to Melkhashtet, a rifle with the same action, but feeding from a different magazine.

Collaborative Efforts

In AC1173, Lediyugika's arms committee reached out to Shwetz for assistance in producing their new infantry rifle. Their old rifles were surplus purchased from Exia's colonies, single shot DAC-1069 rifles and Bausable M99 rifles from the previous century. Exia would not supply them with any modern rifles, or even the previous model, and their isolation from any other countries made it difficult for technology to make its way to them. They had made a serious effort to sample multiple commercial rifles and some of the newer surplus and found Shwetz the best possible candidate for getting their new design made on a large scale.

The pattern they had come up with was a diminutive short rifle heavily based on Tekhat's N.68, being sold worldwide as the Shwetz RpGM68. The sights had a minimum range setting of 250 meters for use with projectiles. The magazine was based on that from The Von Strauss Company's sporting rifle line, a rotary magazine powered by a coil spring and filled by clips similar to the Meri's patented clips, which weren't patented in Lediyugika. It fed five 6.5x50mm cartridges designed by the same committee. Its barrel was unjacketed and unguarded, as it was seen as an unnecessary addition.
A set of handmade prototypes were sent with the representatives and Ayla Shwetz spent a number of months refining the design before producing blanks and tooling that would allow reproduction of the rifle at home. Ayla charged the poor nation very little, asking for a wholesale price of 1000 IK apiece for the 250 prototypes and a payment of 1000000 IK her efforts in refining the design and the production of the gauges.
This would not be the last time Shwetz would collaborate with other companies or nations to refine their rifles, as it set a precedent that she would be willing to do so as long as she was paid and the rifle wouldn't be directly competing with her rifles in a military or civilian market.

Aiding the Ailing

A later, simplified Shwetz rifle would replace the MIG57 rifle in Montase, the Shwetz Model AC1175.

While it lacked the versatility of the M66, it was far less expensive to produce. The camming bolt and bolt sleeve was replaced with a simple flap with a lug that drops into a recess in the receiver. This made it weaker, but cheaper, which was ideal for the ailing empire of Montase. In addition, the magazine required no armature to feed from the magazine thanks to a simple flat-spring and sheet metal follower. The rifle also loaded from cardboard chargers, another inexpensive piece of equipment that was made to skirt around Meri Duchy patents.
Other simplifications included a less expensive type of wood, a source that would carry on through future Shwetz production, and an unfinished barrel jacket that was held in place by lugs and spring tension instead of threads. Montase produced them domestically to ease logistics, as the speed at which they demanded them was outpacing the free production capacity of both Shwetz facilities.

Domestic Upgrades

The M66 would see an upgrade in AC1179 to become the RpGM66A1, a shorter, lighter rifle that had shed its barrel jacket for a handguard, featured an energy bayonet emitter that used a hollow space in the stacking rod to escape the stock, which had an added pistol grip, and a slight change to the bolt placing the guide protrusions on the bolt body onto the bolt itself rather than the relay cap. The receiver did not significantly change, only losing the threaded section used to attach the barrel jacket.

These would be adopted as an upgrade by the Ismerian military, but not enough rifles would be made before the next war to truly show an improvement or detriment to combat effectiveness.

Enduring the War

In late AC1180, Ayla would perfect her Wind Crystal Impingement System, a mechanism that allowed true fixed barrel, locked-breech, semi or fully automatic weapons. Battle rifles of the day were either recoil operated or blowback, both mechanically and magically delayed, or not delayed at all. This made the M81, the rifle it was mated to, a best-of-breed item judged as superior to its contemporaries by many.

It functioned based on a sensor placed roughly one-fifth of the way down the barrel. This would detect the passage of the energy being released from the charge, starting a very short timer that would trigger an air aligned soulstone near the sensor as the bullet passed roughly three-fifths of the way to the muzzle, or after the bolt had passed through if firing traditional charges. This would build air pressure in a chamber to the right of the barrel, pushing back on a gas piston fixed to the bolt carrier and forcing it open after the bullet has left the muzzle, or well after the bolt was clear, cycling the action automatically.
It featured an adjustable shot timer, making the maximum possible fire rate roughly 820 rounds per minute, and the minimum fire rate roughly 300 rounds per minute.
Ayla would start trying to sell it to neighboring nations almost immediately. While both Ismere and Montase were impressed by the rifle and systems present in it, they backed out of any purchase deals due to the cost of their production. Montase was fighting rebellions both at home and abroad, and Ismere had just allocated funds to the production of M66A1 rifles. Only Ebenland would order any, with an opening contract for thirty thousand units. They had recently been attacked by New Dendarin, the former nation of Denidaria now coming back for their land, and desperately needed rifles of its kind to compete with them. Their own battle rifle patterns had not been completed before the invasion started.
Roughly eighteen thousand could be finished and produced before Ebenland capitulated to a surprise attack. 14 thousand of those were already in Ebenland, alongside over seven hundred thousand of their charges. They were all seized by New Dendarin during their advance. The remaining rifles and ammunition were appropriated by Ismere for their advance into New Dendarin roughly two weeks earlier.
The company's factories would be disabled as New Dendarin pushed northward through the country and the buildings and tooling would remain inside New Dendarin's territory following the signing of the armistice. Two would be restarted by NDAC to produce ammunition for and new parts for Shwetz Model AC1181 battle rifles captured by New Dendarin, but the other three would remain ruined for another several cycles while New Dendarin took military action to invade Exia for their soulstone wealth.
The invasion was a devastating failure, and Amelia Kohen herself was exiled from the country for the sheer number of lives needlessly lost. The Shwetz factories in occupied territory were both repaired over the next cycles for the purpose of expanding the The New Dendarin Arms Company's reach and production capabilities. This angered Ayla, who would approach the council of military governors and petition for the right to keep her factories in exchange for producing Shwetz M81 rifles for their military. This deal was accepted.

The Big Gun

I was sitting in my office in my main plant sometime in the later months of the war, around the twentieth of eight. It was late, I was getting ready to close the doors for the night when four people walked in. Three were men carrying huge objects wrapped in canvas, the final was a woman carrying a crate. One of the men placed their packet on my desk with a forceful grunt. I worried for my desk, it seemed quite heavy.
The men left and the woman stayed. She told me, "The generals want these." I peeled back the canvas to reveal two rifles, both quite massive, one with a bipod. Neither had a magazine, but inspecting the crate she brought revealed charges that were very large, as large as some of New Dendarin's experimental heavy rifle charges from a few decades back. Some were gold, hummed malevolently, and glowed a brilliant pink. Others featured bullets larger in diameter than my middle finger. Their immense destructive capability was self evident. "What is it?", I had to ask.
She simply said, "Why don't you come to the range and see for yourself?"
The woman, whose name I came to know was Evelyn, hoisted the rifle with the bipod onto her shoulder and said "Grab a handful of charges. The type doesn't matter much." I selected a decent variety of charges and followed her outside.
The testing range at the NDAC headquarters is quite spectacular. It stretches on for hundreds of meters, each target is lit by spotlights, and there was a six meter wall at the back made from logs at the end. Evelyn set the rifle down on the ground and motioned for me to come over. "Enemy attrition isn't high enough to press these into our service, so the brass figured it was time to request something similar from our own armories." She then turned to one of the workers nearby and asked "Can you put a piece of steel out at 300 meters, please? Man-sized silhouette?"
I took the time to ask questions. Simple things like "how much does it weigh?", to which she responded "16 kilograms". Its bore diameter was 12 millimeters, the case length was 90 millimeters, yet the maximum effective range of its P-types was only 600 meters. The standard charges have been used on airplanes, aimed using the rifle's anti-air sights, a complicated wire web used to lead the shot. I was already getting ideas for what exactly I wanted to make.
When the man returned from placing the target, a black piece of steel the size of the average human torso with a protrusion in the shape of a head, I took some ear guards from a rack nearby and kneeled next to the rifle. I drew back the bolt and placed one of the P-types into the receiver. I laid on my stomach and drew the rifle into my shoulder, a feat made easy by the large pistol grip protruding below the wrist, and took aim at a target near the "300" marker before taking a deep breath and squeezing the trigger.
The explosion of orange light from the muzzle surprised me, as did the ring of the steel 300 meters away. The growing pain in my shoulder was of little consequence to me at the time as I grinned and ejected the spent casing. "That was interesting."

— Alya Shwetz reflects on her first experience with an anti-material rifle.

New Dendarin's defeat in Exia had been, in part, due to having dozens of so-called "light artillery" troops armed with anti-armor weapons used against their drop planes in the form of the IAVR-M81, made by U.E.W.. Only a dozen had been captured during the war, but that was seen to be sufficient to get something similar made for themselves.
They would bring some of them to Shwetz and ask for a weapon of its kind to be used by New Dendarin. The result was the Landshchiff und Fliegergewehr Modell AC1182, or LsuFGM82.

The rifle was essentially a Shwetz M66 that had been lengthened for use with charges that were roughly fifty percent longer than the standard infantry charge. It had a very long barrel mostly unguarded by the stock, shed the barrel jacket to save on weight, and featured a loop on the nose cap to allow for use on standard-issue machine gun mounting hardware. It was fed by five-charge box magazines, which meant it lost the M66's capability to accept en-bloc clips. It weighed a respectable 16 pounds and measured at 57.5 inches in length, or 7.26 kilograms and 146 centimeters.
Its intended use was to shoot down planes and destroy vehicles using fire and light aligned charges, with the intended effect to cause explosions on or inside of armored vehicles. Another role it saw use in was as a sniper rifle, separate from the role undertaken by a squad designated marksman, who were armed with M1155/75-RND rifles, later replaced with the NDAC-LM84. A scope mounting rail was standard on the left side of the rifle's receiver.
Where a marksman would move with their fireteam and provide support from several dozen meters away, snipers operate in pairs, taking strategic targets from several hundred meters away and returning in silence before they can be pinpointed. Anti-Material charges were fire/light aligned to cause explosions near or within vehicles, and sniper's charges were dark aligned, whose bolts moved far more quickly to account for the distance.
When intended for use in Anti-Armor roles, it would be issued with a bipod attached. Snipers would receive a sling that attached itself to the mounting ring and recessed sling bar on the left side of the buttstock. Exian and Bausablite armories would take note and make adjustments to their IAVR-M81 rifles in the next year to add a scope mount and allow it to accept box magazines, but it wouldn't be as useful as the LsuFGM82 due to its extremely high weight.
The rifle would compete with the NDAC-HRM82, a rifle made from stamped components, for adoption, where it would not be adopted as standard, but was an acceptable substitute standard. Its P6.75x98mm cartridge, however, was accepted.

The Rebellion

In AC1183, following two years of removing welfare systems, the nation was in turmoil. The poor were either thrown into the streets or killing soldiers to remain in their homes. They were again starving, or stealing to prevent that fate. The war with Exia was dragging on, New Dendarin was demanding more and more rifles that Shwetz could no longer provide due to Exian occupation of both roadways, foundries, and lumber mills in the area.
The truth behind the chaos was that the governing council of generals had been cut in two. On one side, those who supported Amelia's policies. The other, those who felt the nation could profit from their removal. The supporters of Amelia were removed from office, all were missing or dead. Ayla vocally supported the rebellion as her sister was among those missing generals. Tatiana Weiss of the New Dendarin Arms Company followed suit.
With both of the nation's major arms companies on the side of the rebellion, alongside foreign aid from Exia, the loyalists were only able to last a year before the war was won. Just after the war, a conversion program began to add dust covers and synthetic stocks to the M81, but the program was cancelled.
Several dozen of this pattern were made and tested, designated the M81A1, but the synthetic stocks were expected to be too fragile in the harsh southern winter, and the dust cover was often bent or otherwise destroyed too easily.

Civilian Demand

After the rebellion, civilians began to rearm themselves. After submitting their personal firearms to the stresses of combat, many found them to have been irreparably damaged and worn out. Shwetz was already a popular manufacturer in the country, famous for the quality of their actions and finish of their rifles. Now that they were a native company, demand only increased. Shwetz's answer was the Volksgewehr M1184, or VGM84.

Two major variants were produced. The "automatik" model was based on the StGM81, and the second used manual bolt operation in a further two sub-variants. The "repeater" and the "blitz", which came with a turn-bolt and straight pull bolt respectively, with both based on the Shwetz M66 and M66A1's options. Both of these also came with the option of a straight bolt handle or a turned-down bolt handle, the latter of which has a cutout in the stock to aid in grasping the bolt handle. As purchased, they included two flush fitting 5-charge box magazines, but would readily accept larger military magazines intended for the M66 and M81.
All variants were set into a basic stock that were made from wood and could be finished in a variety of colors from bleached white to deep black, metal finishes including blue, brown, black, and phosphate, and had a number of choices when it came to engraving. In later years, synthetic stocks became available as well.
It came in several chamberings of common civilian and military surplus charges, including...

• 13.4x68mm, created by Soulshot in AC1144.
• 13.2x79mm, created by Von Strauss in AC1160.
• 11.4x75mm, created by Polustranya in AC1161.
• 11.4x81mm, created by Shwetz in AC1166.
• 11x79mm, created by NDAC in AC1175.
• 12.6x77mm, created by Gelbmann in AC1179.
• C12.4x77mm, created by Exia in AC1180
• 11.4x53mm, created by Shwetz in AC1190.

Updating the Pattern

Several years after the rebellion, news of the Kizae Type 184 Heavy Revolving Rifle, an update to the Type 171, reached New Dendarin. Ayla Shwetz saw fit to try adopting a feature from it. The vertical grip. A new, softer plastic was used in the construction of the stock that became less brittle in the cold.
A feature she borrowed from the ISLR-M86 was a bolt tail attached to a main spring within the stock instead of a thin one within the operating rod, much like the system present in the later Shwetz-Polustranyan Model AC1190.
The sights were elevated to bring them in line with the eye, as the cheek weld is far higher than on the original M81, and the standard magazine capacity was increased from 15 to 20, as automatic fire was more controllable with the straight stock.

These modifications resulted in the Shwetz Sturmgewehr M81A2, which was finalized in AC1187, and saw its debut arming a foreign aid division sent to Pidenkrai to aid in their independence war. Facing properly utilized assault rifles for the first time in the form of the IAC-M81, produced by SVGSE and Bausable's armories from AC1181 to AC1183. They were found on both sides of the conflict, while Sterlina fought with the P83C, another assault rifle design.
It was later decided that the StGM81 series would be supplimented by an assault rifle in Shwetz's catalogue. The M81's mechanism was reliable, but fired cartridges that were too powerful to be considered useful for sustained automatic fire from the shoulder despite the recoil compensator. The SVGSE M81, sold commercially as the Ivanovka Automatic Carbine, was well liked by soldiers in Polustranya. It fired a mild intermediate cartridge, one between the power of pistols and traditional rifles, and as a result its automatic fire mode was much more controllable. Both New Dendarin and Pidenkrai's military forces made requests for weapons of its type from their allies and domestic manufacturers.

Shwetz's answer was the Sturmkarabiner M88. It fired an increased charge of the P6.75x30mm cartridge designed for use in converted The Great Principality of Ismere K61s. Its stock was reprofiled from older Shwetz semi-pistol grip stocks to have a steeper grip angle to better control automatic fire and its sights were moved to the back of the receiver and modeled after those of the Aserielle T122. Otherwise, it was a scaled down and simplified StGM81.
It would go on to be adopted in the newly independent Novya Polustranya as the Shwetz 2.65-Line Carbine, Year of AC1188. Shortly afterwards, the rifle was updated with new stocking and better ergonomics as the StKM88A1, now with a full pistol grip and straight stock.

New Dendarin would accept it as the Sz-CM91.

Licensed Technologies

As a successful and innovative firearms development company, Shwetz has created many unique features that were desirable to both military and civilian firearms.

Hisakawa Firearms

The earliest licensed technology was the barrel jacket patented for use on the RpGM66. The buyer was Hisakawa Firearms, who used it on their Pattern 72 Rifle.

New Dendarin

While they now resided in the same nation, it was not legal or ethical for the New Dendarin government, and by extension their arsenals, to steal Shwetz's technologies. The bolt system from the Shwetz M75 was adapted to a more modern rifle in the New Dendarin Arms Company Long Gun, Model AC1184. It was released to NDAC under license and for a fair price, as Ayla and Tatiana were on good terms. It served as a squad-marksman's rifle for only one year before being displaced by the Von Strauss SlG85 and becoming a "mid range marksman's rifle" for purely bureaucratic reasons.

Lameianis

The first foreign license was for a rifle that would come to be called the Kobeula Rifle Model AC1187, often referred to simply as the Kobeula 87 or K87. It was unique in that the wind crystal impingement system was taking the place of any charging handle, simply requiring a trigger pull to initially cycle the bolt. The housing for the system was also placed above the barrel rather than alongside the receiver as it was in the M81.
Another Lameian company, United Arms, would also produce the pattern as the UACP87R. This was a much needed upgrade to the previous Pattern AC1158 lever-action rifle. The two versions only truly differed in their finishing, with the Kobeula rifles featuring a phosphate finish with red wood, while the United Arms units featured dark wood and blued metal.

Zeliph

Kizae Type 187

Zeliph would put the mechanism to use in their Kizae Type 187 rifle, a further upgrade to the Type 177, itself an upgrade to the Type 154 Long Rifle dating back to the first Sterlina-Zeliph war, which in turn was an adaptation of civilian sporting and hunting rifles.
It was externally identical aside from the lack of a slide ring, removed so as to not harm the operator when firing the weapon. Internally, it lost the capability to accept the tube elevator conversion, as the magazine plunger was replaced with the Wind Crystal Impingement system, and a spring had been added to make the slide-bar-turned-op-rod return on its own.
While it was effective enough, very few were made, as weight concerns were beginning to take hold in the military's mind. The weapon would soon see replacement by a newer rifle designed from the ground up to use the wind crystal impingement system.

Polustranya

Upon gaining their independence from Bausable, Novya Polustranya would need to update their arsenal. They would not develop their own weapon using the system, instead they hired Ayla Shwetz to design one for them. The design would be, mechanically, very similar to the Shwetz M81. This rifle would be designated the Shwetz-Polustranyan 4.9 Line Rifle, Model AC1190.

More common would be the carbine made the same year for servicemen in less combat-centered roles, such as artillery crews and vehicle drivers, however many soldiers preferred it for its lower weight and maneuverability. The long rifle would take on a marksman role, while the carbine would have become standard issue if Exia and Bausable had never adopted the UEW-SLR-M89. The new, modern battle rifle put fear in them.

They approached Shwetz with the Ivanovka Automatic Carbine and asked for something similar, but more modern. They had already been creating a weapon based on that concept, the StKM90, recently made as a successor to the StGM81. The long rifle would still become a marksman's rifle, but the carbine would be shelved in favor of the StK. Their variant would chamber the same round as the IAC-M81, 12x54mm, simply due to the abundance of surplus ammunition in the nation. This cost them some magazine capacity, reducing it from 20 to 16.

Founding Date

AC1162

Type

Corporation, Manufacturing

Alternative Names

• Shwetz Co.
• Shwetz
• Shwetz Rüstungsunternehmen

Leader

Ayla Shwetz

Location

Furstinthron