KH-2002
KH-2002 is an assault rifle in WARDOGS, chambered in 5.56x45mm. It does 28 damage per round at 700 rounds per minute, with a muzzle velocity of 715 m/s and an effective range of 300 m. It weighs 3.17 kg. It is free: the faction recruit rifle every account starts with. On the tier list it is A tier.
Details
- Category
- Assault rifle
- Price
- Free
- Rewards
- Assault XP
- Weight
- 3.17 kg
- Tier list
- A tier, #14 of 37
Weapon stats
- Damage per round
- 28
- Rate of fire
- 700 rpm
- Fire modes
- Semi / Burst
- Muzzle velocity
- 715 m/s
- Effective range
- 300 m
- Accuracy
- 1.5 mrad
- Deviation
- 15°
- Zeroing
- 100 m, fixed
- Melee damage
- 35
- Suppression
- ×1.2999999523162842
The platform's own figures from the game files, before any attachment moves them. 1 mrad is about 10 cm of spread at 100 m.
Shots to kill
| Target wears | Body shots | Body TTK | Head shots | Head TTK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No armour | 4 | 257 ms | 2 | 86 ms |
| Level 1 | 6 | 429 ms | 3 | 171 ms |
| Level 2 | 6 | 429 ms | 3 | 171 ms |
| Level 3 | 8 | 600 ms | 4 | 257 ms |
| Level 4 | 9 | 686 ms | 4 | 257 ms |
Every round on target, standard (FMJ) ammo, zero range, 100-health target. Head hits use the helmet of the same level. Damage falloff is not decoded, so long-range figures are a floor.
In-game vendor card
KH-2002
Assault rifles
3.17 kg
$0
- –Semi / Burst Fire
- –5.56x45mm
- –Unable to equip attachments.
RewardsAssault XP
Manticore's mass produced and battle-scarred recruit rifle.
“It's free and it shoots bullets. What more do you need?”
The vendor's own card, as shown in the Closed Alpha.
Attachments
Magazines
21 of the 2 changes aim time, equip speed, horizontal recoil and vertical recoil. The build names the attributes; it does not publish the amounts, so neither do we.
| Magazine | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| $10 | ||
| ||
| $180 | ||
| ||
These are the attachments the game pairs with the KH-2002 in the alpha. The pairing is the game's own rather than a menu we opened, so read it as what the game associates with this weapon — accurate to the build, and worth checking in game before you plan a loadout around it.
A further 2 are paired with it that we cannot yet name, with no vendor entry we have seen. Those are held back until they have one — why we do that.
Ammunition
The KH-2002 fires 5.56×45mm, bought separately from the weapon. Which weapons take which calibre is the game's own association rather than a menu we opened, and it agrees across all three places the build records it.
| Load | Per round |
|---|---|
| $1.50 | |
| $4 | |
| $2.50 |
Per-round prices are arithmetic — a loaded magazine's price minus the empty one's, over its capacity. How much difference each load makes has never been published. Everything we have on 5.56×45mm.
What “Assault XP” means on that card
WARDOGS has no fixed classes. Progression runs on six XP tracks, and Bulkhead has confirmed they are earned by using specialist gear rather than picked from a menu — so the REWARDS line is not flavour, it is the rule. Carry the KH-2002 and the XP goes to Assault, whatever the rest of your loadout is doing.
That makes the vendor tab a progression choice as much as a combat one. Every weapon we saw in the alpha pointed at exactly one track, and the tracks split along the vendor tabs: rifles fed Assault, SMGs fed Medic, shotguns and LMGs fed Support, everything long-range fed Recon.
Which is the argument for picking a weapon by what it leaves you rather than by what it does: what a full kit around the KH-2002 costs decides whether the track is affordable to grind, and where the KH-2002 lands once cost is the tiebreak is a different question from raw damage.
Six tracks and gear-driven progression are confirmed by Bulkhead. Which weapon feeds which track is our Alpha 1 reading, and it can change.
Other assault rifles in the vendor
The rest of the tab the KH-2002 is sold under, cheapest first.
Also earns Assault XP
Different vendor tabs, same progression track — carry any of these and the XP goes to the same place.
Where this weapon sits in the game
The 2 skins for the KH-2002
Two Tone Desert KH-2002, Faction Logo KH-2002 — with the gold bar price of each, and what a bar costs today.
Where the KH-2002 ranks
The tier list, and why cost decides it more than damage does.
Complete builds by what they cost
What a full kit around this weapon leaves in the balance.
Every weapon we have recorded
The full Closed Alpha roster, by category.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.