Rail gun damage?

[AmadanNaBriona]

Was it this one?
http://www.5596.org/cgi-bin/nuke.php
This one is not as useful
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html

Figuring armor is tricky. If the bomb detonates here, on Planet Earth, in the atmosphere, the explosion produces blast (overpressure), thermal (heat), and nuclear radiation
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/effects1.shtml
If the bomb explodes in deeps space, all the energy is in radiation.

here's question for you....

Have you sat down and figured out what the material specs must be for Bi-Phase Carbide armor?

[Nyrath]

here's question for you....

Have you sat down and figured out what the material specs must be for Bi-Phase Carbide armor?

I've started to many times, but never got far. I should look into that.

[Thia Halmades]

... no, seriously, are you two jerking my chain or are you actually talking about something? You're not just screwing around with your senior officer, are you?

[Nyrath]

... no, seriously, are you two jerking my chain or are you actually talking about something? You're not just screwing around with your senior officer, are you?

Bi-phase Carbide Armor is featured in the ancient wargame Ogre.
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/

It is armor that can withstand nuclear explosions.

AmadanNaBriona was asking me because I did the original artwork for Ogre, about a million years ago.
http://www.projectrho.com/ogre.html

[Thia Halmades]

Bi-phase Carbide Armor is featured in the ancient wargame Ogre.
http://www.sjgames.com/ogre/

It is armor that can withstand nuclear explosions.

AmadanNaBriona was asking me because I did the original artwork for Ogre, about a million years ago.
http://www.projectrho.com/ogre.html

... I. I apologize. Sincerely.

I always thought that was an homage to that artwork. I had no idea that you were the original artist. I played the PC version of that game like, just under a million years ago. It had big meaty tactical units and I had no clue what I was doing, but I tried, dammit. I think it was one of the things that started my love of the giant robot genre. If I haven't repped you too recently, I totally just did.

[Nyrath]

I always thought that was an homage to that artwork. I had no idea that you were the original artist. I played the PC version of that game like, just under a million years ago. It had big meaty tactical units and I had no clue what I was doing, but I tried, dammit. I think it was one of the things that started my love of the giant robot genre. If I haven't repped you too recently, I totally just did.

Thanks! But like I said, that was done about a million years ago (about 1976).

[AmadanNaBriona]

... I. I apologize. Sincerely.

I always thought that was an homage to that artwork. I had no idea that you were the original artist. I played the PC version of that game like, just under a million years ago. It had big meaty tactical units and I had no clue what I was doing, but I tried, dammit. I think it was one of the things that started my love of the giant robot genre. If I haven't repped you too recently, I totally just did.

yeah, he's solidly in my personal pantheon of demi-gods. His Ogre illustrations were one of the things that got me turned on to military sci-fi.

I totally flipped my gourd too when I realized who he was

[AmadanNaBriona]

back on topic for a second...

I had an interesting design for a railgun turret pop into my head in the shower the other day, using a revolver/gatling gun style rotating foreward assembly for rotating a fresh set of rails in place for each discreet "burst" of projectile fire, with fresh rails feeding in from a magazine, and old rails being routed through an automated restoration mill that spits the remachined rails back into the bottom of the magazine.
makes rails a renewable but still expendable resource on a ship, but helps bypass the "the rails get tore up" problem.

[Thia Halmades]

yeah, he's solidly in my personal pantheon of demi-gods. His Ogre illustrations were one of the things that got me turned on to military sci-fi.

I totally flipped my gourd too when I realized who he was

Sometimes on this board I feel really old. Now I feel very small. He did that in '76... about a year after I was born Holy CATS.

[Thia Halmades]

back on topic for a second...

I had an interesting design for a railgun turret pop into my head in the shower the other day, using a revolver/gatling gun style rotating foreward assembly for rotating a fresh set of rails in place for each discreet "burst" of projectile fire, with fresh rails feeding in from a magazine, and old rails being routed through an automated restoration mill that spits the remachined rails back into the bottom of the magazine.
makes rails a renewable but still expendable resource on a ship, but helps bypass the "the rails get tore up" problem.

This is not unlike the same "expendable revolver" type weapon that Nyrath suggested not too long ago; we can certainly bend the Halo canon slightly (as it's never expressly defined) and that would certainly be a valid means of designing a rail weapon.

Actually, I kind of like the flavor of it.

[tkdguy]

back on topic for a second...

I had an interesting design for a railgun turret pop into my head in the shower the other day, using a revolver/gatling gun style rotating foreward assembly for rotating a fresh set of rails in place for each discreet "burst" of projectile fire, with fresh rails feeding in from a magazine, and old rails being routed through an automated restoration mill that spits the remachined rails back into the bottom of the magazine.
makes rails a renewable but still expendable resource on a ship, but helps bypass the "the rails get tore up" problem.

I like that one. I thought about a similar thing, except having the rails cooled and reprimed rather than be discarded. IIRC, railguns can currently be fired a few times before they fail altogether, so in your system, perhaps the system will replace the rail after every third shot. On the other hand, having a fresh rail each time would ensure optimal performance.

[Nyrath]

yeah, he's solidly in my personal pantheon of demi-gods. His Ogre illustrations were one of the things that got me turned on to military sci-fi.

I totally flipped my gourd too when I realized who he was

{blush} Thanks!

[SteveZilla]

neat post m'man.

All this keeps reminding me of a cute paraphrase of Robinson's 1st Law
"Anything moving 2 miles per second or faster is worth it's weight in blam"

I just stumbled across this website, and I have to recommend it to everyone here. Extra attention should be given to the page on weapons, given that this thread is about weapons.

[Nyrath]

I just stumbled across this website, and I have to recommend it to everyone here. Extra attention should be given to the page on weapons, given that this thread is about weapons.

Well, yes. It's my website. I have it in my .sig. See below:

[Thia Halmades]

... well, there's your irony.