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The Ringthrower

http://www.geocities.com/kaisermartens/RingwerferIB.gif

(By the way this is Modern Tech, hence why this is to have several limitations, and the thing which looks like a lever is for the soldier to put his back against, so it will not get hurt from recoil and he can be comfortable)

The Ringwerfer is the latest high technology weapon designed by the Martens Kaiserreich Reichswehr. Its design has been carefully planned and after several years now a standard version for relative mass production has been reached.

Firstly, it requires to be connected to a high voltage source, plugged onto the lower part of the machine - the energy is often provided by a nearby Power Station or in a limited way by an Energiepanzer, which is an armored vehicle designed only to function as a gigantic Capacitor/battery.

Secondly, some 5 minutes are ready for the Ringwerfer to charge up to its operational level, it is equipped with a built in computer with LCD screen so the status of all the equipment and energy can be monitored closer by the specialized soldier who is to operate it.

In the meantime another soldier loads through the Pointed Section of the weapon a large metal ring, which is to be ussually a resistant metal so to pierce armors, however when a softer alloy is used, it is to melt from the speed and have a spreaded effect which proves to be extremely efficient against infantry, but poor against armor.

After that, it is ready, and the operator aims carefully. Once the trigger is pressed, which has a plastic safety onto it and also a computer-lock just in case of an accident. Instantaneously, the energy is unleashed and the complex set of magnets propell the ring at speeds much higher than a bullet, burning through the air and getting through anything onto it's path, until from the speed the ring falls, partially burnt out.

The Ringwerfer cannot fire continously, it needs 30 seconds of space between each shot, and after 6 shots the seventh would cause a burnout, the computer also controls the timing between the shots, more seconds of wait, more capacity for continuing shooting.

So, all in all with it's disadvantages, once put on the field, it can be a devastating weapon, a single shot can pierce several thickly armored tanks, and masses of infantry like they were butter.

Also a version with water cooling has been created if it was ever to be used under desertic conditions. It supports uplink to sattelites or control centres, and it's operative system is highly customizable. Not many units are to be produced, being a very specific tactical weapon which is to be used sparingly, but when used right, it can sure change the outcome of the battle.

Its armor resist bullets, but not antitank shells, ovbiously.

General Sassmanshausen of the Kaiser Martens Reichswehr.

ummm Are you talking about a Rail gun? Otherwise I have no clue what you're trying to explain.

Its a Nerf Railgun (Those Nerf discthrowers but with metal and magnets). Why you don't just use an actual railgun or better yet ETC gun is beyond me.

Indeed, of course it is a railgun.

The weapon uses what you call "Nerf" system (Got no idea what Nerf is but I get your idea) so that a ring of a very high calibre is used in a small, light weapon. The "legs" of it can fold, so it can be transported very easily, more easily than if the cannon was standard, besides it's light weight allows it to be aimed and reloaded more easily. I could have made a larger "better" standard railgun, but the point is that it should be easy to carry and easy to deploy, besides, the final result is as good as with a Cannon weapon of the same calibre (Excepting if you are Future tech)

Also, since it is small, it is very easy to conceal and chamouflage, and it is downright also cheaper.

Few problems...
1) When you're 100 Km deep into enemy land and Air strikes already took out powerplants where the hell are you going to get power?
2) hopefully your men have hearing protection or they'll do deaf after a few shots of that thing hitting the sound barrier.

Of course they have ear protection, that is another obvious. I cannot say the same for the enemy, though.

I stated that the energy was a problem to begin with, that is why it is used in Defense or very sparingly - our Energiepanzers can provide a few shots, but that's about it. I know it has many disadvantages, and I did say so, point is, if you manage to sneak an attack with this onto an enemy fortification, formation of tanks, or thick infantry formation, even with only a few shots, the result will be rather nice. Especially with infantry if their ears are unprotected.

How much for production rights, and can I modify the design, an autoloader, mounted on a tracked vehicle or a mount for use in massed infantry defense situations?

OOC: Or maybe you use my ideas of it mounted on a vehicle and try that out.

OOC: Well I am definately very bad when it comes to numbers, so I can't really set a price, so let's just say it's something high but not exorbitant.

We ARE currently working on that under my direct supervision, variants for this vehicle, the problem is we cannot mount it onto a Panzer because of the very high energy requirement, and the autoloader would be a problem because it has to be loaded through the front, but we are working on a system that can get around that by having the Firing Section be detachable, however we are not sure that its integrity will be good enough, so it'd be nice to see what ideas you have got.