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The UAC doesnt care about range. They assessed most combat would be taking place at close quarters or down hallways, and if they had ordered custom stuff based on info about the hell dimension they would've known demons like to get up close. Thats why I suggested the pistol and chaingun probably fire 10mm magnum.
> They could have gotten away with using slow armor piercing flechettes, yknow Nailguns.

For an AGL the belt feed does not have to dictate that its fully automatic. Rotary GLs are semi-automatic and having a belt feed means you could be running around with a magazine of 30+ at a time, popped off one or two per second.
By the time the UAC had come around id expect we'd have upgraded explosives and the necessity of keeping the 40mm type we use right now would be just for vehicles only (hellhound rounds plus explosives with 5-10x the yield).

Figured this is why the doomguy can carry 50 rockets in his standard backpack. Because they're nowhere near the size they look like, probably 25mm rockets which can still explode for crazy damage because this is like OCP-grade military hardware. The decision to use rockets over conventional grenades is a range issue, in case they ever had a problem with range, since rockets have a flat trajectory.