i can hardly walk for all the bull in here,
with every lie a grain of truth can be found.
#1 dear chal, your particle cannon is almost true, but its the size of a small factory, and almost needs its own power plant to fuel it.
Ummm...I'm deadly serious...It was a large rifle with bipod, magazines were stored in a mini freezer type pouch...actual projectile just looked like a piece of cloudy ice shaped like a standard projectile only pointier, hose went from backpack type thing to mag pouch.
I fired the thing and believe me, i'm not big enough to carry a building around...but I appreciate your vote of confidence, it had tiny recoil...the concept was quite simple...store the round in a mini freezer that you can carry (awkwardly) and shoot the round...as the round travels thru the air the ice heats and as the round impacted the diamond and sand particles, being so small and travelling so fast would punch thru the composition of the metal itself...not blasting holes...just peppering the target with tiny little mosquito bite sized holes...just a shit load of em.
So its not an Anti-Tank round..its an Anti-personell round that can hit thru hard targets
Only thing that made the rifle unique at all was it fired in some weird way (cant remember) that didn't crack the round..i.e. standard rounds go boom, projectile is forced out of casing and smacks bad guy in head.
so as to your response Anglo
Your point 3 is spot fuck on btw, though never seen em in use...think they were after my day and even if they were in...us grunts dont get to play with em much/if at all

P.s. I only call it a particle projection rifle, cuz thats what it does, I cant remember the designated name of the weapon, i keep thinking of PSG which I know isnt right, cheers though for trying to keep us straight...even when we are...I'll try to find a pic/description of the weapon/rounds to show ya's it