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| Re: Yeah, but can they get it on a mammoth tank? [message #314849 is a reply to message #314825] |
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Romaner
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not unless the mammy has one hell of a generator or tremendous battery/alternator combo. im no scientis but 32 megajoules or even 10 megajoules for that matter is alot of power. and since this weapon is of electro-magnetic nature you will need alot of electrical power to create enough flux to propell that round at mach 5 speed.
but its nice to see another commonly used weapon in video games to be made into reality.
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| Re: Yeah, but can they get it on a mammoth tank? [message #315027 is a reply to message #314895] |
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It's not hard to build a railgun, the difficult part is in firing large projectiles at high speed.
Also, the "barrels" of these kinds of guns wear fast due to the massive energy passing through them.
[Note that I might be mistaking between 2 kinds of (possible) weapons, one being a railgun, which I think works on Lorentz forces, and the other being .... which works with electro-magnetic forces to give the bullet it's forward speed]
Getting the power is relatively easy, with capicitors. The hard part on it is create wiring in such away that it doesn't fry itself , due to the massive amounts of energy released in a matter of nanoseconds.
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| Re: Yeah, but can they get it on a mammoth tank? [message #315071 is a reply to message #314849] |
Fri, 01 February 2008 23:02 |
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| Romaner wrote on Thu, 31 January 2008 17:25 |
not unless the mammy has one hell of a generator or tremendous battery/alternator combo. im no scientis but 32 megajoules or even 10 megajoules for that matter is alot of power. and since this weapon is of electro-magnetic nature you will need alot of electrical power to create enough flux to propell that round at mach 5 speed.
but its nice to see another commonly used weapon in video games to be made into reality.
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A flux compaciter perhaps?
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