HOLY CRAP MAN!!!

[Azimaith]

Originally posted by Firestormalpha: Sorry, I seem to be a bit over reactive Nano. It's just that when the first words in someones response read, "Scuse me?". It sounds like they're trying to get on your case. As if you slapped them in the face with a handy insult and they are trying to hit back harder. That's at least what it seems like to me. Again, my sincere apologies if I'm the one being over-sensitive.

Don't worry to most people my personality is like sharkskin coated with razor wire doused in ignited napalm. Oh also, in that scuse me remark I misread your post the first time as you saying I was posting it to inflate my ego, lol, but I just never got around to changing the scuse me.

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Azimaith: Yeah I mean like,going to fight Hitler during the Holucast, what bull, we all know the Jews were having the time of their life in 5 star concentration camps where they enjoyed nerve gassings and machine gun acupuncture. And Korea! Even stupider, just because south korea, the side we just happened to be fighting for, became a productive stable country and north korea became a destitute hell hole doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the fact with the war. Naturally the South Koreans just decided communism was no good for them and didn't fight at all since we all know that we can't fight to protect peoples freedom. Wait, what about the stupidest hypocrasy of them all! Thats right folks, the Gulf War, I mean, to repel Saddam all Kuwait had to do was say "sorry saddam old chap, we don't want to become your territory giving you an oil monopoly!" it had nothing to do with the fact we annhilated Saddams fighting force that caused him to conditionally surrender. You obviously must be right that you can't wage wars to protect a peoples freedom, complete and utter bull.

Ah, I knew you'd come around to reason eventually Azi

[Timber Loftis]

Originally posted by Firestormalpha: Oh yeah, what's the purpose of a gun firing bullets at 1,000,000 rounds per minute? Is this anti-personel weaponry or anti-vehicle weaponry?

Or anti-missile weaponry? What would an AWACS {Correction: Phalanx} mounted in space on a satelite be able to do to an outbound, inbound ICBM? What if it could fire 1 million rounds per minute? Bet it could even have a shot at taking out 50 individually-targetted warheads.

(As for being on the ground when it shoots downward, the bullets would burn up on re-entry.)

[ 11-04-2003, 12:47 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

[Night Stalker]

Originally posted by Stratos: Here's some info on a rail gun project at Auburn University, including what it is and how it works.

For those of you out there that aren't electrical engineers/physicists/mathmaticians ......

A 'rail gun' is a device that accelerates an object with an electro-magnetic pulse. In this case the object is a projectile. Other ways of firing projectiles include: stored mechanical energy (bows, catapults, your arm ...), gravity (trebuchette), chemical (your average firearm, rockets), and stored kinetic energy (BB guns, paintball guns).

Anyway, the projectile is 'fired' with an electro-magnetic pulse. It is not nessissarilly a 'super' weapon. A .45 cal bullet travelling 480 feet per second still hits you the same wether fired from a Colt M1911 or a rail gun (though one small enough to be hand held doesn't exist). It's a mass x velocity thing. It does allow for much greater energy effiency and much higher muzzle velocities than current chemically launched projectiles. This basically means you can get greater destructive effect, longer ranges, and such with smaller projectiles.

Weapons aren't the only use for rail guns though. They have great potential for mag-lev (magnetic levitation) trains, air craft catapults and other uses. The "Linear Induction Motor" for the Batman and Robin: The Chiller roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure is a rail gun.

Also, someone mentioned the MOAB is the Daisy-cutter. Not quite right. The MOAB (Massive Overhead Air Burst - NOT Mother Of All Bombs!!) and Daisy-cutter are both fuel-air type bombs. They are non-nuclear large yield weapons. The MOAB has a greater yield than the Daisy-cutter does.

And to address, the million round gun, it's a defensive stand off proctection weapon for incoming missiles and aircraft. They are used on ships. They protect the ships by placing a "cloud of steel" in the flight path of the incoming threat. For other weapons of this class, check out CWS (Seawiz) or Phalanx.


EDIT: And NO! A rail gun is not a laser. Lasers are light based technology. While light is a type of electro-magnetic wave, lasers do not use electro-magnetic induction to accelerate objects. They accelerate and focus light.

[ 11-03-2003, 08:23 PM: Message edited by: Night Stalker ]

[Ronn_Bman]

Originally posted by Timber Loftis: quote: Originally posted by Firestormalpha: Oh yeah, what's the purpose of a gun firing bullets at 1,000,000 rounds per minute? Is this anti-personel weaponry or anti-vehicle weaponry?

Or anti-missile weaponry? What would an AWACS mounted in space on a satelite be able to do to an outbound, inbound ICBM? What if it could fire 1 million rounds per minute? Bet it could even have a shot at taking out 50 individually-targetted warheads. [/QUOTE]I don't think I'd want to be under it though.

BTW, I'm disappointed; I thought this thread, "HOLY CRAP MAN", was about a new super-hero. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[Bahamut]

man.. i am loving this thread... very informative...

[Thoran]

Metal Storm (the Million round/minute gun) was developed by a guy in Australia, not the US military... although I believe the US Military was one of his first customers.

[ 11-04-2003, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: Thoran ]