NationStates Jolt Archive


Railguns Under Development

Fluffywuffy
04-06-2004, 21:58
Announcement from Robert Francis, Military Advisor for the Allied Confederated States

"Railguns are a new wave of technology that could possibly destroy modern gunpowder weapons in terms of power; a railgun can propel an obeject to 4kms per second, an amazing speed. This comes at a cost, however; for such force a railgun needs to be provided with a current of 6.5 million amps, which is indeed a lot. It can be overcome, (OOC:as that number is taken from a real life gun) and the results are astonishing. It is overcome by the use of a compulsator (OOC:search for that one on your own).

The heat of the current will cause metal objects to weld themselves onto the two metal rails, and in high power designs, for the military, this heat actualy can ionize the projectile (OOC:meaning it is plasma, or am I mistaken?). Damaging, yet this all can be overcome by the use of a sabot round.

The sabot case of the round attaches to the rail, and this case absorbs much of the heat and distributes the current to a tungsten, fin stabalized, projectile, which then flies off of the rail at breakneck speeds and the case falls off. The tungsten then hits the target, assuming you aimed correctly, and does its damage (flying off of the rails at mach 11.75 is bound to hurt what it hits).

As muzzle velocity increases as more current is applied and the rails get longer, these really should be used only for ships, static emplacements, or for very small projectiles, possibly even a tank. The sheer speed of the small projectile for a tank should easily penetrate any vehicle. On a battleship a massive, 50 meter long rail gun with millions of amps of current would lay waste to the armor of any other ship, clear landing zones fairly easily, and redefine the word 'pwned.'

These weapons are now being developed by the Allied Confederated States for use on naval craft, with a technology demonstrator of tank size planned, but it is unknown if that would be put in production. It is known that naval weapons using this tech will be put into production."
Fluffywuffy
04-06-2004, 22:36
BUMP
Fluffywuffy
04-06-2004, 23:01
BUMP
Trailers
04-06-2004, 23:03
If it is still under development and research,my nation could lend a hand,seeing as Trailers has had railgun technology for a long time.
04-06-2004, 23:05
[code:1:6cdf391cd8] Letter To Fluffywuffty: Gustav Krupp of FWS worked on the "Super Gun" in FWS... He is now out of a job... Perhaps you might hire him.[/code:1:6cdf391cd8]
Fluffywuffy
04-06-2004, 23:08
OOC: this is more of a 'we have them, but are perfecting them for military application' thing, as anyone has railguns. It's just getting them to fire rapidly, without destroying themselves, fire larger shells, etc. etc.

IC:

"The Allied Confederated States accepts the offer by Trailers to help us with our own railgun research and developments, though they have come along smoothly, they could always use a speed boost, as opposed to a speed bump. We gladly accept your offer. We also accept a scientist from an anonymous source (OOC: FWS)"

Robert Francis
Trailers
04-06-2004, 23:14
Well,seeing as Trailers has gone through all the trial and error stages of larger shells,rapid fire and heavy gun stuff,they could speed up the process considerably.

IC:Done and done.