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Out Of Character Details
Image Source: Star Wars Battlefront
Intent: To create a new Heavy Blaster Rifle in the same line as previous canon adaptations for the open market.
Canon Link: Canon DLT-19
Restricted Materials: N/A
Primary Source: A320 Blaster Rifle, A320-CFE Blaster
Product Information
Manufacturer: BlasTech Industries, I'att Armament (Nationalized)
Model: BlasTech Industries DLT-29 Series Heavy Blaster Rifle
Affiliation: Open-Market
Modularity: Yes; Various Tactical Attachments.
Production: Mass Produced
Material: Blaster Components, Spill-sealed Tibanna gas, Duranium, Dallorian Alloy.
Technical Specifications
Classification: Heavy Blaster Rifle
Size: Handheld/ Two-handed.
Length: 1219 mm / 48 inches
Weight: 12.1 Kg / 26.7 lbs
19.2 Kg / 42.3 lbs (with tripod)
Ammunition Type: Plasma Cartridge / Power Cell
Ammunition Capacity: Six Hundred Particle Bolts Per Magazine (Plasma Cartridge). One Hundred Twenty Particle Bolts Per Powercell. Two Thousand Eight-Hundred Bolts Per Gas Canister.
Effective Range: 750 meters (Optimum Range.) 4000 meters (Maximum Range.)
Rate of Fire: Marksman (Single Shot), Semi-Automatic, and Fully-Automatic.
Special Features
- Firing Selector: While it may be known primarily for its high rate of fire, the DLT-29s capacity to deliver powerful, accurate shots at long ranges make it a serviceable auxiliary sniper. To that end, the heavy blaster features multiple firing modes for greater operator control. These modes include: Marksmen (Single Shot), Semi-Automatic, and Fully-Automatic.
- Power Setting: In keeping with the standard modern specifications of Blaster weaponry, this Rifle boasts two versatile settings (Stun and Lethal) that can be altered by the bearer at any time.
- Universal Rail Mounting System: Courtesy of I'att, the latest in standardized attachments has been affixed to the top of the DLT-29s barrel, allowing for the attachment of a veriety of scopes for longe range skirmishing. In addition to the scope compatability, the base of the DLT-29 contains a port for most standardized tripods, allowing for somewhat greater accuracy at the rifle's higher rates of fire.
- Powerful: Utilizing lessons learned from previous collaborations with I'att Armament, the technicians at BlasTech were able to apply the same tightly coiled conceptual design to their new line of heavy blasters. To that end, the DLT-29 is in the upper range of similar models, possessing limited heavy armor piercing capacity.
- High Rate of Fire: Though it sacrifices some of the usual firing speed found in comparable heavy blasters for even more firepower, in its fully automatic mode the DLT-29 is still capable of pumping out a high volume of bolts in a short period of time. The most common use of its predecessor, the 19, was to pin down troops and eliminate large groups of enemies, and at these tasks the heavy blaster's successor does not disappoint.
- Accurate: In its single fire modes, the DLT-29 excels at longer range engagements. By no means as capable as a specialized sniper rifle, the heavy blaster nonetheless has a farther reach than one would expect, as well as being much more precise.
- Cumbersome/Reload Time: One of the primary drawbacks of the DLT-29 is just how similar it is to the 19s design, particularly in terms of how difficult it is to assemble and carry, as well as the time it takes to reload the rifle. Featuring a somewhat more complex side mounted plasma cartridge as well as somewhat difficult to access power cell, those precious few added moments can mean the difference between life and death on the battlefield.
- Overheats: Pushing the limits of I'att Armament's patented enhanced galven coil technology, under the stress of sustained fire over extended periods of time the DLT-29 has been known to overheat and require either time or some sort of liquid coolant to operate effectively once more. Most operators would do well to carry some with them, but the potential downtime is nonetheless a flaw in the rifle's design.
- Prone to Jamming: Due to the unique series of limitation BlasTech faced in developing their new line of classic concepts re-imagined , certain concessions had to be made architecturally to preserve the same look and feel of an older Blas model while also making enough space for all the new bells and whistles provided by I'att. For these reasons, unlike the reliability of its predecessors, the DLT-29 can be jam prone, easily enough fixable in the field but requiring operators to waste precious seconds in a combat zone as they diagnose and address the problem.
Description: Emboldened by the success of their fulfilled contracts to the Galactic Alliance for updated models of their classic A280 and A280-CFE lines, the research and development team at BlasTech has reinvested some of those profits into seeing how well such an experiment would do on the completely open market. Targeting the planetary defense forces of independent worlds and licensed bounty hunters, BlasTech elected to redesign the old Imperial DLT-19 Heavy Blaster. In a galaxy with a glut of new and improved rifle and carbine designs, the company sought to target a classification with somewhat fewer options available on the open market.
Marketed as a defense and peacekeeping weapon, the new and improved DLT-29 is nonetheless by any standard a highly effective piece of equipment for use in military operations. Possessing not only a high rate of fire customary to most heavy blasters, the DLT-29 is like its predecessor very accurate at delivering heavy firepower over long ranges. With a universal rail mounting for a variety of standardized scopes, the heavy blaster rifle can perform double duty as a limited sniping platform.
The heavy blaster is not without its drawbacks, however, for in addition to the limitations of its predecessor's design (the bulk of the heavy blaster and its extended reload time) several new defects have cropped up throughout the redesign process, one that continues BlasTech's recent partnership with I'att Armament. Not only is the weapon's unreliability under extended operation a continuing factor plaguing this new wave of BlasTech designs, but the DLT-29 specifically is also prone to overheating under the strain of sustained periods of fire on the fully-automatic setting.
