MA5A ICWS Assault Rifle

MA5A ICWS Assault Rifle

During the early stages of the development of the MA5 weapons series, numerous designs and ideas were created, but most of these never reached fruition. However, the MA-5A Assault Rifle, while no where near the same as the finalized weapon, came pretty far, and even became accepted as a elite weapon. Unlike the final design for the MA5B it had three barrels, and it could put out an impressive 30 rounds a second while maintaing moderate accuracy. It's clip held 180 shots, 60 for each barrel, and was very small and lightweight. This was due to expensive and highly unstable liquid metal nano shapers, which could squeeze quite a few shots into a single clip, abeit in a jump in price. The MA-5A contains an ammo counter just like the MA-5B, but, despite the fact that it contains 180 rounds in it's clip, the counter shows only sixty. This stems from the fact that every time the trigger is pulled, each barrel realeases a shot. It is in fact a superior weapon to the MA-5B, however, its high costs negated it from ever becomming a standard infantry weapon. However, the soldriers of the Spartan IV program, despite their large numbers (950 soldriers in the company) were given these weapons as their primary weapon.