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Ghostse said:
I mean by that metric they have prototype lasers, but there's a still a wide gulf to cross from "works on the range" to "working under actual conditions".

Again, if they just want a test platform either up-genning a new Zumwalt or cramming an assault ship hull full of power facilities would likely be more cost effective until they get the thing ready for deployment.

And I guess the real issue with the Zumwalt was "the deployed weapon until the railguns are ready" was a gun they failed to actually secure a supply chain to provide ammo for. There was nothing really wrong with the AGS (other than cost per shot) except they just didn't have rounds for the thing.
And they aren't really prepping an effective fallback for these ones.
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The Zumwalt has hull issues. As for ammo, they're steel slugs. Any machine shop can turn ammo out for these guns.
 
Ghostse said:
A railgun round would be virtually indestructible to laser systems unless they were insanely powerful, like "Sci-fi offensive weapon powerful". Lasers hitting missiles works because missiles are thin-skinned, full of various explosives, and have precison sensors.
That is, your laser just needs to melt through the missile's outter coating and it will probably lose aerodynamics in a way the system can't compensate, or for fast missiles aerodynamic forces will probably tear it apart.
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yeah,but cruise missiles can have a far longer range than railguns

can a railgun hit something 2500km away?

both missiles and railguns/cannons have their uses
 
Wooooo first third of the video is complaining about the reformers... again

If I had a shot for every time he bitched about these literal dead mfs I would be more of a drunk then piggy himself.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Ideally you would develop an APHE round for them though since a solid shot hole puncher is of dubious usefulness against a ship.
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ideally you'd use a railgun

the kinetic energy of a 1 kg object traveling at 3 km/s (which is achievable by naval railguns) is equivalent to about 1.07 kg of TNT, and since e = 0.5mv^2, increasing velocity is significantly better than increasing explosive content

if u double the velocity, u quadruple the tnt equivalent

this is why non-nuclear hypersonics should never have an explosive filler, it's just not worth it compared to increasing speed

and before u say "it doesnt explode", at these speeds, any impact is gonna result an explosion, cuz the structural strength of both the projectile and the target are negligible compared to inertial stress, this also means that solids and fluids behave the same when it comes to hypervelocity impacts
 
It's funny how quickly this retard will churn out some slop video if he's assblasted over a topic but can't at all be fucked to produce the content people subscribe to him for.
 
BaldAndMorallyBankrupt said:
It's funny how quickly this retard will churn out some slop video if he's assblasted over a topic but can't at all be fucked to produce the content people subscribe to him for.
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He's a glowie.
Pretty much every video he has ever made is in support of glowie propaganda and bashing on trump is at the top of that list.
Well, calling him a glowie is giving him a bit too much credit. He is the glowie equivalent of those british police officers that you see turn up to arrest british citizens for saying mean things online.

Ghostse said:
A railgun round would be virtually indestructible to laser systems unless they were insanely powerful, like "Sci-fi offensive weapon powerful". Lasers hitting missiles works because missiles are thin-skinned, full of various explosives, and have precison sensors.
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Lasers win.
It would only take a slight deformation in the slug to send it off target by a mile and the laser systems deployed on ships now are in the 100kw range which is more than enough to cause de-lamination.
Not that rail guns aren't cool, in space where there is no air they are extremely based, although a naval ship based rail gun would work very well since you'd save a LOT of space and complexity by not having to worry about carrying explosive ordnance.
Ship design is like 100 times worse than tank design when it comes to building around having to carry a fuck ton of explosives.
 
Tyrannosaurus rex said:
Lasers win.
It would only take a slight deformation in the slug to send it off target by a mile and the laser systems deployed on ships now are in the 100kw range which is more than enough to cause de-lamination.
Not that rail guns aren't cool, in space where there is no air they are extremely based, although a naval ship based rail gun would work very well since you'd save a LOT of space and complexity by not having to worry about carrying explosive ordnance.
Ship design is like 100 times worse than tank design when it comes to building around having to carry a fuck ton of explosives.
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It's not an aerodynamic flight, I highly doubt that a brick of steel going at fast as fuck speed would miss a target the size of a building at their engagement rage.
 
Tyrannosaurus rex said:
Lasers win.
It would only take a slight deformation in the slug to send it off target by a mile and the laser systems deployed on ships now are in the 100kw range which is more than enough to cause de-lamination.
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yes, but pretty sure air plasma is opaque, and a railgun slug travelling through the air causes so much aerodynamic heating that it gets surrounded by enough plasma for that opacity to make it a lot harder for the laser to actually be able to heat up the projectile

air is a good thermal insulator, even if its hot enough to be plasma

so all the laser does is heat up the air even more than it already is, but not a lot goes to the projectile

feel free to correct me tho
 
Tyrannosaurus rex said:
Not that rail guns aren't cool, in space where there is no air they are extremely based, although a naval ship based rail gun would work very well since you'd save a LOT of space and complexity by not having to worry about carrying explosive ordnance.
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Space is the last place you would want a railgun, the engagement distances are way too long to the point where even a railgun projectile would have a very long flight time. You need midcourse correction capability and thus missiles.
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Space is the last place you would want a railgun, the engagement distances are way too long to the point where even a railgun projectile would have a very long flight time. You need midcourse correction capability and thus missiles.
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You could always try putting manuvering thrusters in the slug, though i don't know how that would work
 
Sleazy Car Salesman said:
Space is the last place you would want a railgun, the engagement distances are way too long to the point where even a railgun projectile would have a very long flight time. You need midcourse correction capability and thus missiles.
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Excuse me?
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The Foxtrot said:
Excuse you? MAC guns need salvos to overwhelm Covenant shielding, but they're punishing when the shields are down.
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Yeah and those shields are tough mother fuckers and more or less the sole reason why the Covenant sees such widespread success in their crusade against humanity. They nearly drove us to extinction, remember, and the only thing that saved us in the end was an internal schism within the Covenant at a critical moment and a madcap plan that took us beyond the edge of the galaxy.
 
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