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If real I am sure I will buy one but I wonder why they wouldn't use a monolithic rail design?
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Recoil: Evidence of Glock Carbine: Patents and Proofs
Have to define “real.” It’s real in that Glock has done enough research and development for a carbine to apply for patents but does that equal a product coming to market anytime soon? Who knows.
A big question is how recently was the R&D done snd how recent are the patents ?
Re: monolithic rail- this could be something the they worked on 20 years ago and abandoned, or maybe, like Colt, they don’t want to pay LMT royalties for use of LMT’s patent on monolithic uppers.
I assume they've designed this to be lower cost then a monolithic extruded aluminum uppers (ala SCAR), as minimizing production cost/ machining time is a main driver of Glocks pistol designs.
If I had to guess, the top part (labeled 4-6) is aluminum, likely extruded, and then the rest of the handguard and lower receiver are polymer. Presumably, this would shorten machining time and aluminum use vs having a continuous extrusion.
https://www.recoilweb.com/wp-content...carbine_14.jpg
Sometimes, one patents an idea, not so much to bring the idea to production, but to keep another manufacturer from being able to market the idea, unless royalties are paid. Some that come to mind, that I remember from forum discussions and articles, are that Canon patented camera and lens concepts that were never marketed.