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Old 04-24-2010, 12:22 AM
Crni vuk Crni vuk is offline
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Gauss weapons could "theoreticaly" achieve speeds of 10 000m per seconds. To give some comparision the Leopard II shoots a shell with a speed per second of between 1700 and 1800m. The 88 shell of the Tiger I had somewhere around 900 or 950 meters per second.

The real advantage of gauss weapons or a huge increase of speed is that the shells start to use a different kind of physic for penetration very similar to the hollow charges instead of sheer kynetic energy from its mass. Just that you dont have a jet stream of molten metal at unbelievable speed but a short small shell formed like a needle. One issue despite the energy needed for the magnetic inductors and what ever else you need for the technology that one has to find a metal or material that can whistand such intenese speed and preasure of course otherwise the shell would deform itself in flight and not get a correct balistic form.

Gauss canons are already in use. But only for scientific experiements where they shoot small bolts or bullets at much more then 10 000m per second at frozen surfaces or sand or what ever else to simulate the impact of a asteroid. Its pretty interesting. And the gun is incredible huge ...
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Old 04-24-2010, 01:34 AM
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Wicked, would be fun to see something fire that fast...In Mechwarrior the Guass Rifle fires like nickel ferrous slugs or something like that...either way I like Gauss Rifles except they are 13 tons and take up more space on the mech then an abrams does in a C5 also they only get like 8 shots per ton of ammo, so dangerous but heavy as ......yeah I got nothing
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Old 04-24-2010, 01:51 AM
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KnightFandragon, you keep talking Guass Rifles and I'm going to have to reload my Mechwarrior's.
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Old 04-24-2010, 04:12 AM
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KnightFandragon, you keep talking Guass Rifles and I'm going to have to reload my Mechwarrior's.
Good Mechwarrior is ownage

Even though Microsoft kinda hosed the whole mechwarrior idea and MW4 wasnt that awesome it was still mechwarrior. I still play MW4 Vengeance campaign....its fun

now how did we go from 1942-45' all the way to 3050 and beyond =P do we wanna getback on topic much lolz....blame it on me, my bad haha =)
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