The elite Senate Commandos were known to use a special version of the DC-15A with a wooden stock Due to this, most soldiers used high capacity cartridges to counter-act their vulnerability while reloading. Replacing the tibanna cartridge required the user to open the weapon, which left them vulnerable during combat situations. To reload the blaster's power pack, the user would have to press a button to extract the pack, and insert a new one. The firing process generated a lot of heat, which was evacuated through the blaster's radiator fins and a heat-exchange element located in the blaster's muzzle. Electromagnets accelerated the blaster bolt out of the weapon's barrel, where it was stabilized by magnetic pulse stabilizers and a collimating tube. The beam was then intensified through a prismatic crystal and pushed through a galven circuit. The plasma was then transferred to the expansion chamber, where it became a particle beam. When its user pulled the weapon's trigger, a gas release valve released a small amount of tibanna into the rifle's ignition chamber, where it was transformed into plasma by the ignitor, with energy from the blaster's power pack.
The DC-15A blaster rifle utilized tibanna gas cartridges and blaster power packs to fire. In addition, a flip-up optical sight was located at the end of the weapon's barrel, which itself was surrounded by heat-radiator fins.
A sniper scope was stowed underneath the rifle, which could be detached and re-attached to the weapon's iron sights, located directly above it. A power setting adjustor was located on the right side of the iron sights, which could be turned to change the weapon's power setting. Circuitry for the power amplifier was located behind the rifle's protruding iron sights, which were located towards the center of the blaster. An indicator for the blaster's gas pressure was located above the trigger, right next to its blaster power pack. It had a magnatomic adhesion grip and a nonconducting stock, which was weighted to improve the weapon's overall balance and to help reduce recoil.
It weighed 4.15 kilograms and was almost fully black in color. The DC-15A blaster rifle was a long heavy blaster rifle that was capable of firing blue- colored blaster bolts. Two clone troopers fire the DC-15A blaster rifle