Weapons
M4A1 carbine
Each one carries seven magazines and three hundred spare rounds. The men reload their magazines from the spares instead of carrying more magazines.
Stalker platoon · Issue as of December 16, 2026
The Armory
Everything thirty-three Rangers carried off the Chinook ramp in Poland, item by item: what it is, how many the platoon has, who carries it, and why it matters in the story. Lieutenant Cole made sure there was more of all of it than anyone wanted to carry.
33Rangers
300Spare rounds a man
6,000SAW rounds
Weapons
M249 SAW
The platoon’s only automatic weapons. Every gunner carries a spare barrel, and every gunner griped about the 200s. Controlled bursts, always.
Weapons
Mk22 sniper rifle
A multi-caliber rifle set up in 7.62. Five ten-round magazines, plus fifty match rounds in his spotter’s ruck. Why 7.62 matters, you’ll see.
Weapons
M320 grenade launcher
Two’s grenadiers laid the smoke that covered the platoon’s break from first contact.
Optics & lasers
Vortex Razor HD 1-6×24
One optic across the whole platoon, so any man can zero any rifle and any scope can replace another.
Image to come
Optics & lasers
Trijicon RMR
Tip the rifle forty-five degrees and it’s there, for when the magnified optic is too much. Or fogged.
Optics & lasers
PVS-31A night vision
Flipped up on the helmet by day, down by night. Batteries do not last forever in the cold.
Optics & lasers
NGAL aiming laser
Invisible to the naked eye, bright through night vision. Lit the corridor ahead of Tran’s team.
Image to come
Weapons
SureFire suppressors
They don’t make a rifle quiet. They make it harder to find. That difference keeps the platoon alive.
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Comms
AN/PRC-163 handheld
Squad leaders run the platoon net and the squad net at once, one on each channel.
Comms
AN/PRC-158 manpack
The heaviest load in headquarters, and the platoon’s only voice to the company. Push it through twenty meters of rock and it goes quiet.
Image to come
Comms
ATAK handset
Maps, routes, and the platoon’s position, as long as there are satellites overhead.
Image to come
Explosives
M18A1 claymore
Front toward enemy. Mills checks.
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Explosives
Breaching charges
Made for doors. One of them opened a door that had been shut since 1945.
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Explosives
Hand grenades
Smoke for marking and cover. Fragmentation for when it comes to that.
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Medical
Medic’s aid bag
Packed in the order a medic works a casualty: bleeding, airway, breathing, circulation. Plus a hypothermia kit, because it’s December.
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Medical
IFAK
Every man carries the first minutes of his own treatment. A tourniquet goes on before Doc gets there.
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Cold weather
Level 7 parka
Move in light layers, put the parka on when you stop. Sweat on the move freezes at the halt.
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Cold weather
Plate carrier & helmet
One side plate stopped a round meant for Tran. It cracked a rib doing it.
Projekt Kronos is a work of fiction. Equipment is described as a modern U.S. Army Ranger platoon would plausibly carry it; details are simplified for readers. Images are added as they are made for the companion site.