BattleRaptor wrote:
Of course I would love to hear your explanation on why advances in 200 years that went from few rounds a mintue to 80 rounds a mintue... to millions of rounds a second in 2011 in some bulletstorm versions...
The 1 million BPS gun is actually a 36 barrel firing 5 bullet each, there is no saying how long it could fire. in anyway it is not firing one millions bullet per second, it has the potential to it but feeding ammo and overheating might cause it to stop firing before it reach 1 millions bullets.
Also for you explaination. yes weapon do evolve so do defense/armor. at some point you could shoot as much ammo as you would like none would do any damage. That why you go for more powerful weapon and ammo. They may also be more expensive. making you forget about shooting as much ammo as you can in favor of a more precise slower firing weapon.
icekatze wrote:Edit: At the risk of sounding like a huge nerd, has anyone ever seen the old 80s sci-fi Earth Star Voyager? They have a pretty good example of how you might use a railgun effectively. Spoiler: (Trick the enemy into thinking you are surrendering, then fire as they are pulling up to dock)
It seem unlikely in outsider. they prefer to blast thing then ask question later or never
(as you could see with the bellarmine demise)
icekatze wrote:Edit - Edit: Rather than just being a big ol meanie pants. Here's some concept art of a transitional Terran warship with some innovations from Loroi tech added in. Mjolnir has been dropped, they added some minor screens and "semi-reaction less field fins" on the back.
I like the design. bulky like the human ship but still with loroi feature. i would have make it longer as the bell is kind of "nail" looking.
still on the working but you get a general idea of the shape. turret will be set on top, hangar door under (front an back)
BattleRaptor wrote:
send up one ton blocks of manure.
Drop a 1 gigaton nuke directly behind it and detonate.
Have 100 of them... and you have yourself a expanding wall of deadly POOP.
Even if you replaced the Manure with something more solid that could cause damage to the ship, it highly inefficient. Think of the price of 100 nuke + the propelled material and that only to attempt to damage a single ship. And don't tell this could cover enough area to take out the entire fleet. It it would the umiak would already have done that. Even their AM missile are useless and are mainly used as distraction.
Space is vast quite vast. considering we fire at 300 000m (cause closer than that they already are shooting us. and a bullet attain 10%c 30 000m/s it would take 10 second for the bullets to reach the target.
During that time lets say the ship have a 20g acceleration and he moving only on it plane (not away nor toward the ship.
You would need to spray an area of (assuming i have the right formula; (AT)² / 2 were A is constant acceleration in M/s T is the time in second, that give the "r" (1920km) of a circle so 3,1416x1920²=a shitload of km... can someone check my formula an calcul?)
anyway ill wait until my calcul are check cause that give more than 30 million kilometer to cover. must have messed up with a coma somewere. but it still way too much space to cover with bullet. and that make it quite expensive way to use.
if you just focus on the "stealth" of the weapon and it deadly kinetic power, you can load up a AM charge in it and make so that it can change trajectory at the end. giving a little more of a hard time avoiding the projectile, but just a little.