Skrypchekov Avtomat 928

Origins
Virskaia has always been relatively up to date on how wars are waged. It's just a fact of their doctrine; when you are always prepared, you can never be taken by surprise. Thus, when the technology of the time allowed for very mobile machine guns, companies were already biting at the bit to get a government contract.

Considering the competition, it's no surprise that the company who won the bid... wasn't a company at all. Anola Skrypchekov, an old revolutionary veteran and the only Virskaian woman to score more than three kills during the revolt, never expected her design to actually be accepted. She constructed the machine gun - firing the standard Virskaian MG calibre - in her garden shed, using spare parts from old hunting rifles, over fifty pocket watches, and a pair of leaf springs from a rusting truck.

However, when she cased it and took it to the government trials, the rest of the competitors hadn't built a 'medium machine gun' at all. They were either too heavy to be portable, too costly to be practical, or too inaccurate to hit a target even at the closest ranges tested. In the end, Anola's gun was chosen by the military for its superior performance, and suddenly she had to use all of this grant money to purchase factories and workers to construct the new Skrypchekov Avtomat 928.

Trivia

 * Unlike its Thesian counterpart, the SA. 928 is belt-fed
 * Its tripod doubles as a grip when hip-firing.