The Navy's New Toy

[BloodBane611]

*EDIT* Post by Pariel

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]Wasteland

Producing that much power on a ship is one of the primary problems with the practicality of rail guns. Think about how much energy has to be transferred to the projectile in how little time.

(Power = Energy / Time)

Just make a bigger capacitor. Honestly, I don't think anyone doubts that railguns will eventually become part of military arsenals, even if it is obvious that we don't have the capability to make them now. People made basic railguns in their homes in the '90s (granted, they fired small amounts of particles, not slugs), so if the Navy can't figure out how to weaponize the technology in another 12 years, I would say shame on them.

Originally Posted by Z-trooper

now we just need to get a big enough EMP bomb and all of USA's ships will be nothing more than floating iron

Electronics can be/are hardened against EMPs, so "big enough" can be a lot harder to produce than a "big enough" conventional bomb. Also, it takes a lot less knowledge to make an effective conventional bomb.

I'm not saying the idea doesn't have merit, especially in war between two actual militaries, but I don't see a whole lot of terrorists using EMPs.

[General Dragosh]

Electronics can be/are hardened against EMPs

Witch is veryyyyyy expensive when u consider a lot of electronics

[Deadmonkiefart]

It's just a railgun. I could make one out of disposable cameras.

[[R-MOD]Wasteland]

Yeah, and just how powerful would that be?

[Deadmonkiefart]

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]Wasteland

Yeah, and just how powerful would that be?

I'm just saying that its not new technology. The military has been considering railguns for a long time.

[+SiN+headhunter]

wow that sorta thing could work in space.
Like on spacecraft.

[gclark03]

Why spend a sextillion dollars to fight in space when you can spend trillions to fight on Earth?

[.:iGi:. Eggenberg4Ever]

Originally Posted by [R-MOD]Masaq

Why, did your own trials of a similar system show an intolerable degree of reduction in the structural integrety of the rails after prolonged firing, as a result of significant Delta over the T/M^X fractal friction multiplyers?

Mine did.

ROFL!!

[[R-MOD]Wasteland]

Originally Posted by Deadmonkiefart

I'm just saying that its not new technology. The military has been considering railguns for a long time.

That's like saying that cold fusion would be nothing special because "energy production" has been around since we rubbed two sticks together.

[BloodBane611]

That's like saying that cold fusion would be nothing special because "energy production" has been around since we rubbed two sticks together.

lol. Not exactly, but I agree. This is a pretty impressive technological feat, and I'm sure that they will eventually figure out how to reduce the wear due to friction down to reasonable levels, either by refining the current system or creating a new one. This isn't anything to sneeze at.