03-22-2023, 02:55 AM | #161 | |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
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The SEFOP idea is a good one and shouldn't require homing any more than current multi-mode HE rounds do. |
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03-22-2023, 08:50 AM | #162 | |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
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See the Blackjack bomber v. the US' original supersonic B1A bomber. The Blackjack came in significantly larger and 15 years later but they stuck with it. I'm not aware of the Soviets or even their clients and/or proxies who got involved in armored combat doing anything significant with gun/launchers so we can't take their theoretical deployment by the Soviets as a great endorsement. As to taking up the back deck you need to remember that we're only talking about a 100mm missile. That's only a 4 inch tube holding a 25 lb missile. It probably wouldn't need even a full foot of the back deck.
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03-22-2023, 09:38 AM | #163 | ||
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If you're willing to stick the tubes right along outer edges of the chassis I could see it not crowding too much, I guess.
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03-22-2023, 11:13 AM | #164 | |
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Also, a rocket/missile typically has a 10 to 20 ratio. the Javelin, for example, is 43" long and weighs 35lbs. So that's fairly sizeable volume for those missiles.
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03-22-2023, 12:30 PM | #165 |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
Yes, but they have those same advantages when not fired from a tank's gun mount.
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03-22-2023, 12:50 PM | #166 | |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
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The drawbacks are that the launcher becomes much heavier, and you need to design the missile to survive the launch process. I would note you can have a more or less arbitrarily weak gun component, a cold-launch VLS system is technically a compressed gas gun that fires a missile. |
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03-22-2023, 03:02 PM | #167 | |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
Shells have the advantage that they are cheap and light so you can carry more of them.
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03-22-2023, 03:10 PM | #168 | |
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03-22-2023, 03:22 PM | #169 | |
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Fundamentally, the tradeoff between rocket and cannon is that the launchers for rockets are lighter and cheaper, the ammunition for cannons is lighter and cheaper. |
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03-22-2023, 03:25 PM | #170 |
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Re: TL9 Heavy Tank
I believe coilguns use something akin to an EMP to propel their payload, so any electronics on the shell (like any sensors and the robot “brain” controlling it) would need to be shielded against such, which may call for a lot of mass at the size of a tank-cannon-fired missile, reducing effective payload (or maybe it’s negligible at TL9).
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