Karak

The Karak is an accurate Grineer assault rifle that is carried by Frontier Elite Lancers. It features high damage, high accuracy, and a good fire rate, offset by its fairly low magazine size and limited critical hit potential. Overall, it serves as a very solid rifle capable for any range of combat.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages
 * High  damage – effective against shields.
 * High accuracy, on par with Soma.
 * Low recoil for an automatic weapon.
 * Has a polarity slot.

Disadvantages
 * Fairly small magazine size.
 * Very low critical chance.

Comparisons:
 * Compared with the Karak Wraith:
 * Lower base damage (27.0 vs. 30.0).
 * Lower damage (6.8 vs. 7.5).
 * Lower damage (8.1 vs. 9.0).
 * Lower damage (12.1 vs. 13.5).
 * Lower critical chance (2.5% vs. 5.0%).
 * Lower critical damage (1.5x vs. 2.0x).
 * Lower status chance (7.5% vs. 15.0%).
 * Smaller magazine (30 rounds vs. 60 rounds).

Tips

 * With a polarity, the Karak is recommended to either have Serration, Split Chamber, or Speed Trigger as its first mod.
 * The Karak is a solid anti-Corpus weapon due to its slight bias towards Impact damage over Puncture and Slash damage. Consider adding Bane of Corpus mods to further increase its effectiveness against them.
 * The Karak is a very versatile weapon, good at combating all enemies, but aside from its high Impact damage and rate of fire, it doesn't excel in anything.

Trivia

 * The end of the bound strap on the midsection of the gun has movement/cloth physics like the Syandanas; it flaps loosely whilst moving and firing the weapon.
 * Aesthetically, the rifle appears to be heavily based on the M16 assault rifle, with its filename data referring to it as the "GrineerM16Rifle", reinforcing the connection.
 * This is the first official automatic Grineer Assault Rifle introduced in the game (following the burst-fire Hind rifle), as the Grakata is considered to be a submachine gun and the Gorgon is more of a Light Machine Gun.
 * The weapon was introduced in Update 11.5.