List of Urcean service weapons: Difference between revisions

The '''SR-10''', officially known as the '''Standard Rifle Mk. 10''' and known commonly as the '''Jenkins Rifle''', was a {{wp|semi-automatic rifle}} in use by exclusively by the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] from 1937 to approximately 1941. The rifle, using a {{wp|Gas-operated reloading|short stroke gas system}} and firing a {{wp|7.92×57mm Mauser|.324 Royal}} held in a ten round box magazine, is essentially a semi-automatic rifle built mostly out of [[SR-9]] parts. The rifle was designed in this manner largely out of necessity; the Royal and Imperial Army's bolt-action [[SR-9C]], though reliable, was inadquate for modern warfare on [[Sarpedon]], where the Caphirian [[Imperial Legions]] utilized {{wp|semi-automatic rifle}}s. Beginning in 1935, the Army began to investigate transitioning away from the SR-9C, beginning a complicated and delayed process which eventually resulted in the adoption of its first assault rifle, the [[SAR-40]], five years later. In the meantime, a stop-gap measure was required, and the Army put out specifications looking for a semi-automatic rifle that could be made, to the extent possible, out of already tooled rifle parts. Karl-Howard Jenkins, an immigrant to [[Urcea]] from [[Fiannria]], submitted the winning design, and manufacture began in late 1936 for delivery in mid-1937. It was never intended to arm the entire Army with these rifles, only front-line units in [[Sarpedon]], and accordingly production scale was limited, with a half million rifles were manufactured during its four year run, largely alongside SR-9Cs which would continue to be used abroad as well as in the other services. The rifles performed reasonably well for what they were, although reliability issues plagued them throughout their service life. With the introduction of the SAR-40, these weapons were rapidly phased out as the new assault rifles were sent first to front-line units, and the SR-10 was officially taken out of service at the end of 1941. Despite popular belief, these rifles are not conversions of SR-9 or 9C rifles, only constructed using most of the same parts and tooling.