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William Hamilton
Caldari THE LEGION OF STEEL WARRIORS.... R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.06 01:22:00 -
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Edited by: William Hamilton on 06/07/2007 01:22:23 ^Fortunately, coil guns would work with different barrel sizes firing the same shells, whereas rail guns would not (or rather I haven't found a way they would yet)
Besides, we can all clearly see rail guns have round barrels, one is even called a compressed coil gun
On the topic of auto cannons and artillery, I considered treating them as ram cannons, where the barrel is filled with a fuel-air mixture and then the shell is fired, the fuel itself burning as the shell passes it. Unfortunately, I beleive this would have the opposite effect from that intended, lower caliber barrels would fire off faster moving shells....
It could be taught of as the thickness of the barrel wall though. While it is a certainly wacky measurement it does work, and wacky measurements have come about before (like gauge)
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William Hamilton
Caldari THE LEGION OF STEEL WARRIORS.... R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.11 04:29:00 -
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Of course, it could be something really wild, like
The barrel size in millimetres is defined as the diameter of lead spheres of which 164 can be placed within the barrel
And thus, the mm thing would describe length and width at the same time, archaically and cryptically though. 164 could have been a significant number in history or something, or it could be something more normal, like 1000 or such so....
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William Hamilton
Caldari THE LEGION OF STEEL WARRIORS.... R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.19 04:56:00 -
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^That's preety much the way I see it, the charge *****s (or melts or whatevers) open, then the plasma spinns around for a bit in a cyclotron to accelerate it befor being ducted out through the gun itself....
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William Hamilton
Caldari THE LEGION OF STEEL WARRIORS.... R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.24 01:19:00 -
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Originally by: ThaMa Gebir
Originally by: William Hamilton ^That's preety much the way I see it, the charge *****s (or melts or whatevers) open, then the plasma spinns around for a bit in a cyclotron to accelerate it befor being ducted out through the gun itself....
I would imagine the cyclotron would be a miniature version of a particle accelerator.
I think that's how it works, least that's what my reasearch is pointing to...
Yup!
Anyways, on the lasers thing, two points.
One: I was originally thinking optimal range would suffer due to diffraction causing the beam to spread apart and all over the place, unfortunately, this has the opposite effect than that intended (radio lasers would spread out at a very wide angle, while x-rays would have the longest range with nearly no diffraction to speak of). On the other hand, the Amarr could be going for a "shotgun effect" with the longer ranged beams... it still stays damn iffy
Two: On the pulse laser thing, pulsed lasers actualy do do more damage in real life becasue they create a series of explosions at the target. The first pules hits and vaporises a layer of armour, then the beam turns off while the debris cloud clears and turns on again to repeat the cycle. The whole "being faster firing rather than more damage per shot" could be explained with the heatsink thing, esentialy the amarr tuning down their pulse lasers in favour of faster fire rates.
The one thing that remains is why do beams have a greater range....
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William Hamilton
Caldari THE LEGION OF STEEL WARRIORS.... R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.07.25 01:06:00 -
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Edited by: William Hamilton on 25/07/2007 01:06:02 ^Actualy, to increase range you would want a wider beam, though that ends up going to the same effect....
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