Suggestion: The Light Autocannon

[Come and See]

Considering the kind of stuff that goes into weight saving measures on RL weapons is usually shorter barrels and less stabilization, i think the light ACs could be represented without even having to resort to less range.

Just make it so that they have more pronounced ballistic arc and a greater degree of inaccuracy.

If you are gonna be fighting at close ranges, no reason why not to use em to save a little space, just like the CBT counterparts, but the trade off means that long range combat with them is gonna be spotty.

Well the problem you get is redundancy and harder to balance weapons. An example would be this. You have the light, regular, and heavy machine guns. Same tool, different size. So if we add Light Autocannons, why not snub-nosed PPC's, Light PPCs, etc.?

[TheDrgnRbrn]

Would be cool, but as has been said, there is no need nor real desire for them. AC2s and 5s are already there for AA duty, what more do you need? Maybe, if AC5s were a more general purpose weapon than they are now, I could see a use for them. But other than that, I really don't see the devs spending any time on this.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

I approve of having a Light AC in. It could be a cheaper variant than the regurlar AC once the MOD has a Mechlab