Operation, Practicality & User Friendliness
Patent Pending.
Operation, Practicality & User Friendliness
Patent Pending.
The Mission:
Create a Caseless Operating System using standard 5.56 caliber projectiles, while ensuring practicality. The firearm must do more than just achieve the impossible—it must be simple to use, easy to maintain and disassemble, and ergonomic, while retaining accuracy, modularity, and reliability.
Useful for Any Role:
Going Caseless is desirable for any role. Therefore, it must be practical for any role.
The operating system may be configured to use an entirely different caliber with only a few changes.
The Most Compact 5.56 on the Market
The Disclosed Model is a 5.56 caliber bullpup pistol, under 15" long with a 7.5" barrel and standard A2 flash Hider. Nothing is that compact with that barrel length and that flash hider.
Compact form factor offers significant advantages, and broadens the range of uses of the operating system (e.g., use as a PDW).
Useful for Any Weapon System:
The operating system may also be upscaled or downscaled as required for different calibers, or even heavy artillery.
The operating system may also be configured for belt operation, and/or liquid cooling, structured to siphon heat from select components.
Ease of User Familiarization & Adoption
Although very novel in its advantages and function, the operating system requires minimal training or familiarization. A user may simply pull the trigger, charge the firearm by means of a forward charging handle, and replenish firing supplies with detachable box magazines.
Differentiated & Choreographed Reciprocation:
The operating system is an as-simple-as-possible conglomeration of multiple interconnecting parts that are meticulously choreographed in a 3D space and time continuum. The recoil stroke of the operating system is initiated by the rearward movement of a piston, which travels the same distance rearwards as the primary reciprocating component. While providing the efficiency and clean operation characteristic of long-stroke, piston-driven designs, this operating system is unlike conventional long-stroke gas piston systems. In conventional long-stroke operation, the piston and bolt carrier typically move as a single, fixed unit for the entire cycle. BrashZero incorporates differentiated reciprocation, where a given reciprocating component completes its movement, or achieves some purpose that must be achieved prior to the movement of a subsequent reciprocating component, before triggering movement of the next component.
This independent component travel contributes to unparalleled compact design, efficient operation and little felt recoil due to minimal reciprocating mass. The use of a piston ensures the operating system runs clean and cool by eliminating fouling, a common issue in other operating systems. This keeps the operating temperature of parts within a manageable range and greatly increases the system's ability to provide high-output continuous firing without stopping or requiring the swapping of hot operating components.
Heat Management:
The operating system employs careful heat management strategies, separating heat-sensitive components (such as the powder reservoir) from hot operating parts (barrel, bolt, combustion chamber) through physical separation and material insulation, thereby minimizing the risk of cook-offs.
The bolt, which inevitably gets hot due to repeated firing, never touches the powder reservoir or its powder.
The bolt only touches the allocated powder charge.
No hot parts ever touch powder until the user has decided to fire.
Reliable & Purely Mechanical Operation
The design is predicated on purely mechanical operation, purposefully excluding conveyor systems, belts, batteries, and all forms of electronics, although by definition they could be used if the application suited that. Especially with unmanned systems, or other electronically controlled systems, electronic operation may be useful, and it would no longer add a failure point–the whole system would rely on electronics anyway.
The Mission:
Create a Caseless Operating System using standard 5.56 caliber projectiles, while ensuring practicality. The firearm must do more than just achieve the impossible—it must be simple to use, easy to maintain and disassemble, and ergonomic, while retaining accuracy, modularity, and reliability.
Useful for Any Role:
Going Caseless is desirable for any role. Therefore, it must be practical for any role.
The operating system may be configured to use an entirely different caliber with only a few changes.
The Most Compact 5.56 on the Market
The Disclosed Model is a 5.56 caliber bullpup pistol, under 15" long with a 7.5" barrel and standard A2 flash Hider. Nothing is that compact with that barrel length and that flash hider.
Compact form factor offers significant advantages, and broadens the range of uses of the operating system (e.g., use as a PDW).
Useful for Any Weapon System:
The operating system may also be upscaled or downscaled as required for different calibers, or even heavy artillery.
The operating system may also be configured for belt operation, and/or liquid cooling, structured to siphon heat from select components.
Ease of User Familiarization & Adoption
Although very novel in its advantages and function, the operating system requires minimal training or familiarization. A user may simply actuate a single sear by means of a trigger, may charge the firearm by means of a forward charging handle, and may replenish firing supplies with detachable box magazines.
Differentiated & Choreographed Reciprocation:
The operating system is an as-simple-as-possible conglomeration of multiple interconnecting parts that are meticulously choreographed in a 3D space and time continuum. The recoil stroke of the operating system is initiated by the rearward movement of a piston, which travels the same distance rearwards as the primary reciprocating component. While providing the efficiency and clean operation characteristic of long-stroke, piston-driven designs, this operating system is unlike conventional long-stroke gas piston systems. In conventional long-stroke operation, the piston and bolt carrier typically move as a single, fixed unit for the entire cycle. BrashZero incorporates differentiated reciprocation, where a given reciprocating component completes its movement, or achieves some purpose that must be achieved prior to the movement of a subsequent reciprocating component, before triggering movement of the next component.
This independent component travel contributes to unparalleled compact design, efficient operation and little felt recoil due to minimal reciprocating mass. The use of a piston ensures the operating system runs clean and cool by eliminating fouling, a common issue in other operating systems. This keeps the operating temperature of parts within a manageable range and greatly increases the system's ability to provide high-output continuous firing without stopping or requiring the swapping of hot operating components.
Heat Management:
The operating system employs careful heat management strategies, separating heat-sensitive components (such as the powder reservoir) from hot operating parts (barrel, bolt, combustion chamber) through physical separation and material insulation, thereby minimizing the risk of cook-offs.
The bolt, which inevitably gets hot due to repeated firing, never touches the powder reservoir or its powder.
The bolt only touches the correct volume of powder that has been allocated to it for the charge to be used in that active operating cycle.
No hot parts ever touch powder until the user has decided to fire.
Reliable & Purely Mechanical Operation
The design is predicated on purely mechanical operation, purposefully excluding conveyor systems, belts, batteries, and all forms of electronics, although by definition they could be used if the application suited that. Especially with unmanned systems, or other electronically controlled systems, electronic operation may be useful, and it would no longer add a failure point–the whole system would rely on electronics anyway.
The Mission:
Create a Caseless Operating System using standard 5.56 caliber projectiles, while ensuring practicality. The firearm must do more than just achieve the impossible—it must be simple to use, easy to maintain and disassemble, and ergonomic, while retaining accuracy, modularity, and reliability.
Useful for Any Role:
Going Caseless is desirable for any role. Therefore, it must be practical for any role.
The operating system may be configured to use an entirely different caliber with only a few changes.
The Most Compact 5.56 on the Market
The Disclosed Model is a 5.56 caliber bullpup pistol, under 15" long with a 7.5" barrel and standard A2 flash Hider. Nothing is that compact with that barrel length and that flash hider.
Compact form factor offers significant advantages, and broadens the range of uses of the operating system (e.g., use as a PDW).
Useful for Any Weapon System:
The operating system may also be upscaled or downscaled as required for different calibers, or even heavy artillery.
The operating system may also be configured for belt operation, and/or liquid cooling, structured to siphon heat from select components.
Ease of User Familiarization & Adoption
Although very novel in its advantages and function, the operating system requires minimal training or familiarization. A user may simply actuate a single sear by means of a trigger, may charge the firearm by means of a forward charging handle, and may replenish firing supplies with detachable box magazines.
Differentiated & Choreographed Reciprocation:
The operating system is an as-simple-as-possible conglomeration of multiple interconnecting parts that are meticulously choreographed in a 3D space and time continuum. The recoil stroke of the operating system is initiated by the rearward movement of a piston, which travels the same distance rearwards as the primary reciprocating component. While providing the efficiency and clean operation characteristic of long-stroke, piston-driven designs, this operating system is unlike conventional long-stroke gas piston systems. In conventional long-stroke operation, the piston and bolt carrier typically move as a single, fixed unit for the entire cycle. BrashZero incorporates differentiated reciprocation, where a given reciprocating component completes its movement, or achieves some purpose that must be achieved prior to the movement of a subsequent reciprocating component, before triggering movement of the next component.
This independent component travel contributes to unparalleled compact design, efficient operation and little felt recoil due to minimal reciprocating mass. The use of a piston ensures the operating system runs clean and cool by eliminating fouling, a common issue in other operating systems. This keeps the operating temperature of parts within a manageable range and greatly increases the system's ability to provide high-output continuous firing without stopping or requiring the swapping of hot operating components.
Heat Management:
The operating system employs careful heat management strategies, separating heat-sensitive components (such as the powder reservoir) from hot operating parts (barrel, bolt, combustion chamber) through physical separation and material insulation, thereby minimizing the risk of cook-offs.
The bolt, which inevitably gets hot due to repeated firing, never touches the powder reservoir or its powder.
The bolt only touches the correct volume of powder that has been allocated to it for the charge to be used in that active operating cycle.
No hot parts ever touch powder until the user has decided to fire.
Reliable & Purely Mechanical Operation
The design is predicated on purely mechanical operation, purposefully excluding conveyor systems, belts, batteries, and all forms of electronics, although by definition they could be used if the application suited that. Especially with unmanned systems, or other electronically controlled systems, electronic operation may be useful, and it would no longer add a failure point–the whole system would rely on electronics anyway.
