Next Generation Advanced Armaments Program

The Next-Generation Advanced Armaments Program or NGAAP is a massive scale AcDragonian weapons program aimed at bringing AcDragonia into the forefront of military weapons production and technology. The program itself has had varying degrees of success and has been an ongoing effort since the end of the Corsari conflict. It's seen AcDragonia transition off of the Quartz-25 rifle system to the M8A1 as well as tech consolidation with support systems such as tanks and personnel carriers and uniforms but all that really did was bring AcDragonia more in line with other military forces in the system. AcDragonia has continued to pour tens of billions of credits into this program in hopes of bolstering their forces to make them able to better resist and overcome forces like the Dragonian Grand Army and other comparable forces. The first major breakthroughs happened after AcDragonia got their hands on some plasma based xenotech from outside the Aegian system where they attempted to reverse engineer and scale-down the technology to create man portable energy rifles. This has been an extremely slow going process that's not a priority but is being worked on passively.
The NGAAP is responsible for producing some of the most notable medical items in the Aegian system such as the MD7 Cardiac Emergency Energizer and the Life-4 Quick Injection Medical Syringe. When contact with the CCR was made and formal trade with the Republic was established, the AcDragonians were able to get ahold of some of their railgun technology as well as the blueprint specs to build it which was the equivalent to technological gold. They also received technical specs for powered exo-armor used by certain CCR troops. The AcDragonians began a shifting their NGAAP budget toward exploiting this new tech and very soon began rolling out an almost complete revamp of their weapons. They quickly shifted from the M8A1 to the R1A1 Switchblade Combat Rifle, which was a first generation man portable railgun combat rifle capable of propelling metal slugs at speeds in excess of 6500 ft/s. The Sheridan MBT chassis was used in the creation of the Sharonai EMBT which uses a large electro-magnetic railgun as it's main armament as well as many other innovations. In military trials, the new suite of AcDragonian weapons outperformed almost everything else the rest of the Protectorate had in their arsenals.
The NGAAP also has an experimental weapons division which was primarily responsible for reverse engineering xenotech acquired from The Hive. Along with gaining the ability in very limited quantities to manufacture ZA-4 "Shard Rifle" clones, learning some of the inner workings of the rifle allowed for the creation of greater capacity magazines as well as experimental weapons that use solid pieces of mass as ammunition that basically transforms a solid block of metal into a projectile inside the gun before firing.