XH-98 Combat Rifle



"The XH-98 is likely the most reliable, adaptive and lethal weapon ever to have been used by SPECWAR since the BR-55 Rifle and all its cousins - with a recoil reduction system propietary to the XH Series, it is as useful at close range, as it is at long range combat - with small kit that lets a soldier swap roles in or out of combat in less than two minutes, it can let a designated marksman adopt the role of a light-machine gunner before the enemy can fire back."

--Exaggerated Advertisement used at SPECWAR's Future Soldier Program meeting in 2592.

The XH-98 Combat rifle, manufactured by Armstrong Misriah Armories's Luna branch - is a 7.62x54mm chambered selective fire rifle used by the VORON Department of SPECWAR since 2598, It is the signature weapon of VORON's first official class of Raven Supersoldiers because its adaptivity and reliability, it has been known to work reasonably fine after being burried in many jam-causing materials such as mud, dust, sand and water, needing only moderate cleaning before functioning well enough to keep its operator alive. It has a quick-rechambering system where the user can strip the weapon down and swap the barrels to function properly with smaller or larger calibers, normally for use with subsonic ammunition to coincide with sound suppressors.

VORON, the weapon's main adopter has requested multiple changes to the propietary sights that come with the weapon, complaining about misaligned crosshairs, HUD problems and longevity issues in one out of every hundred produced,