![]() This could lead to a less comfortable shooting stance. With a forearm-mounted gun, there are only two joints, shoulder and ellbow. Counting the shoulder, there are three joints to get into a comfortable and secure hold. With a conventional firearm, the shooter aligns the eye, the sights on the weapon, and the target. Not as a main weapon or armament, but as a quick and intuitive backup weapon that's always handy. You could make it melee capable as well, perhaps with a laser sight if you wanted. Now there is a caveat, that I think it should be arm or wrist mounted rather than covering the hand, because the hand is just too important and versatile to monopolize like that.īut should you need a quick, instinctual point and shoot weapon - going about your tasks, or you lost your main weapon, what could be quicker than having one mounted on your arm? ![]() One less thing to drop, I guess.Īrm Mounted Backup Weapon (Most Practical) ![]() Or perhaps they have four limbs and have arms to spare. Perhaps you have an alien with double jointed limbs that has no trouble aiming down the sights of such a weapon. ![]() Two, a cannon covering the arm or hand is a bit of an issue because hands are very useful, and we only have two. One, an arm cannon is hard to aim, because we can't naturally look down our forearms very easily. The prosthetic technology would likely be advanced enough to allow for a hand which is more multipurpose. BUT, in a high tech sci-fi setting this seems unnecessary. For inspiration, the patta is a historical gauntlet-sword that turns the blade into an extension of the arm. Now if you were in a culture where making a fully functional prosthetic hand is not possible, and you are going into battle, you might as well weaponize it, as was done occasionally throughout history. The first two are unlikely uses, and the third is what I think is it's most practical usage. Sounds like you mostly covered the bases in the bullet points. Maybe an arm cannon wouldn't be practical for humans, but it'd be fine for humanoid robots that normally use hands, or some humanoid alien with more convenient biology.
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