Future Rifle Program (Sieuxerr)
The Future Rifle Program (Merovingian: Programme du futur fusil, PFF) was a Sieuxerrian Army program to find a replacement for the FA-MAS M.78.
Background
Extensive trials in the 1970s had found that the accuracy of the average rifleman heavily degraded during combat conditions. The accuracy was found to be in the single digits for percentage to hit at 300 meters, roughly the average distance that most firefights were expected to take place.
Initial remedies for this were increasing training for the infantry, however at the start of 1984 a mechanical solution was also sought for. The program would start officially in 1985 with a number of nations and companies submitting their own rifles for trialing. The major competitors would be GIAT of Sieuxerr submitting it FF-15, HK of Eisenmaat submitting the G11, and Izhmash of Letnia submitting the AN-94.
Testing
The three rifles would be pitted against each other as well as against the FA-MAS M.78. The FF-15 would very quickly be rejected from the program as issues with everything from its caseless triplex-fléchette ammunition, its complex recoil management system and its competition style iron sights. The rifle's issues would culminate when faulty ammunition would force the weapon to violently recoil with such force it would break the collarbone of the infantryman firing it.
The army would place an order for five-hundred of each rifle, and would put them in trials with various special forces and regular army units for years.