10-26-2016, 08:54 PM | #11 |
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
If you understand the principals of a gauss weapon then you understand why it's treated as APEP and other questions.
They aren't slivers, per se. The ammo is more like nails which are called "Needles". Anything you can do to a nail you can do to a gauss round. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0 Videos like these can give you an idea of what the ammo looks like. And although these guns don't have the power of the ones in UT, they work on the very same technology idea.
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10-27-2016, 12:05 AM | #12 | |
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
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10-27-2016, 01:39 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
Keep in mind that it might not be possible to rifle Gauss weapon, so any projectiles will have to use alternative methods of stablization
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10-28-2016, 12:33 AM | #14 |
Join Date: May 2016
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
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10-28-2016, 09:47 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The plutonium rich regions of Washington State
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
Probably. Gauss bullets seem to be long, skinny darts. Aside from the difficulty of getting an electromagnetically launched projectile to rotate, long darts are not aerodynamically stable when spun. That's why tanks use smoothbores to launch their long rod, fin stabilized kinetic penetrators.
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10-28-2016, 06:16 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
Aren't long, skinny things like arrows and tank penetrators and gauss needles also more stable with fins than they would be from spinning anyway? Long things get more leverage around their center of mass from the fins than stubby things when the tail swings out of line, while conversely their gyroscopic stability is lower because they don't have as much of their mass far from the center axis of rotation. Rifling's better for stubby bullets -- or spherical ones -- as those shapes have the opposite characteristics.
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10-28-2016, 06:20 PM | #17 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Gauss Bullet Options?
Depends on the atmosphere. One of the problems with fin stabilized darts against human targets is that fin stabilization actually works in flesh, since 1,000x denser medium = 1,000x more stabilization.
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