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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."
"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."