KL7

The **KL7** is a personal defense weapon developed and manufactured by Ionia Armoury. It is commonly used by infantry, special forces, and vehicle crews of the NXSC Armed Forces. A suppressed version of the weapon, the KL7-SD, is often issued to special operations personnel.

## Design

The KL7 is an automatic submachine gun that fires from a 60-round magazine which is placed horizontally on the left side of the weapon. Due to the odd horizontal placement of the magazine on the weapon, it can be assumed that the magazine utilizes a circular ramp where the magazine meets the breech. This rotates the horizontally stacked rounds in the magazine 90 degrees until they align with the horizontal breech.

The KL7 has a polymer pistol grip, folding fore-grip, iron sights, and collapsible buttstock, as well as a titanium alloy body. The design of the gun is most likely inspired by the RIA MK13. The SMG must be cocked before it can fire the first round. The charging handle is located on the right side of the gun and does not move during operation. Once the first round is fired, the gases from previous rounds force the breech to rotate and chamber a new round. Once the magazine is empty, the handle although not illustrated in-game, can either be pulled back and locked or it can be fully cycled after a fresh magazine has been housed. If it is first pulled back and locked, then it must be pushed forward in order to chamber a new round. The magazine release button is located between the red dots on the receiver and needs to be pressed before it can be flicked off. There is no ejection port due to the nature of the rounds fired.

Unlike most NXSC firearms, the KL7 uses caseless 5x23mm ammunition, meaning it does not have a metallic casing surrounding the powder and sealing the round, propellant, and primer together. Instead of using a standard brass casing, the round uses a combustible adhesive to seal these components together. Because the adhesive and propellant are both vaporized when fired, there is no need to eject spent casings. Though not occurring often, contemporary caseless ammunition is highly susceptible to cook-off, the accidental firing of rounds due to built-up heat in the receiver.

This feature is very beneficial. In addition to increasing fire rate by removing the extraction and ejection phases of the weapon's cycle, it reduces friction inside the magazine, one of the main causes of malfunctions in weapons. This is also conducive to dual-wielding, since the user need not concern themselves with hot brass expelled from the weapon held in the left hand. The projectile itself is jacketed in metal, usually a copper alloy in standard military ammunition, to aid in penetration of the target. Caseless rounds are actually embedded into the block of propellant, reducing their length, allowing more ammunition to be stored in a smaller space.

### Specifications

* Length: 627mm
* Caliber: **5x23mm FHJ-19**
* Effective Range: 75 Meters
* Weight: **2.88 kg**

## Trivia

### General

* KNIGHT supersoldiers tend to dual wield these guns, making them useful in close combat.
* It fires a unique caseless round: 5x23mm.
* According to field manuals, it can be modified to a suppressed version through a body change.
* While impractical to be used by dual wielding, KNIGHTs can do it well nonetheless.
* Some has created a normal variant that fires conventional ammunition.