Brakk

"Simple but powerful. The semi-automatic Brakk hand cannon delivers a lot of punch in a small package."

- Codex Description

The Brakk is a small-scale shotgun type sidearm with high damage and good reload rate but with high recoil and low magazine size.

Characteristics
This weapon primarily deals Impact damage.

Advantages:
 * High Damage:
 * Powerful Impact damage.
 * Decent Slash and Puncture damage.
 * Good ammo efficiency.
 * High rate of fire.
 * Fast reload speed.
 * Decent status chance.
 * One and one  polarity slot.
 * Comes with its own weapon slot and  (if you supported the Grineer in Gradivus Dilemma)
 * High pellet count.

Disadvantages:
 * High Recoil.
 * Relatively small magazine size.
 * Damage has falloff over distance.

Acquisition
The Brakk was the Tier 3 event reward for The Gradivus Dilemma Event. It was awarded when the Grineer were victorious if the player had completed the required 100 missions, showing an overall support for either faction. It is rumored that a Brakk blueprint will be in the drop tables for Councilor Vay Hek after he is reworked.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * The Brakk is typically considered to be an upgraded Grineer version of the Bronco series with high critical chance, greater damage potential, more pellets per shot, and a larger magazine size. In addition, it also has Polarity slots of  and  to accommodate powerful builds.
 * Despite good innate Critical Chance and Damage, Elemental Mods still scale better, resulting in higher + more reliable damage.

Trivia

 * The Brakk is a revolver-style pistol using buckshot rounds - a small scale shotgun.
 * The Brakk's cylinder rotates every time after it fires. Curiously the player can fire the Brakk very rapidly before the cylinder even finishes rotating.
 * The Brakk appears to have a custom reload animation, but oddly, the Warframe appears to insert an object into the pistol grip.
 * Its reload sound is similar to that of a Bronco.
 * The Corpus counterpart for the The Gradivus Dilemma is the Detron. Had the Corpus won the Dilemma the Detron would have been rewarded instead.
 * General Sargas Ruk gives this weapon to those who supported him and the Grineer in the Gradivus Dilemma with a message: "The way you fight, we cannot grow this in a test tube. You are a true warrior. I need more warriors like you. Continue to fight for me, there is more where this came from."
 * It would seem that Sargas Ruk has grown an attachment to the Tenno who supported him. Speculations of Sargas Ruk's relationships rises at this point.
 * The gun is described as a "semi-auto handcannon" of Grineer design. Colloquially, a "hand cannon" often refers to an extremely powerful pistol chambered for a high caliber cartridge such as .50 S&amp;W Magnum or .50 Action Express.
 * The word "Brakk" may be translated from Grineer to English as "Break", due to its sustained ability to deliver powerful blasts against its targets.