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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 8, 2017 6:20:26 GMT
I DON'T F**KING UNDERSTAND WHY CAN'T THE F**KING PROPELLANT BURN/EXPLODE BEFORE THE SLUG CAME OUT
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Post by David367th on Mar 8, 2017 6:23:43 GMT
You don't have to armor payloads. And even if you have to you could armor it with more rubber. I'm more referring specifically to the Sabot that's required in the gun in order for the slug to be shot. You can't do it with straight rubber apparently (and slightly supprisingly not due to heat melting the projectile/sabot). Edit: To be honest, a rubber payload of any description completely slipped my mind at the time. I was able to do it with a 12ga rubber slug, but I realised you wanted rubber armature too. I DON'T F**KING UNDERSTAND WHY CAN'T THE F**KING PROPELLANT BURN/EXPLODE BEFORE THE SLUG CAME OUTYou ok bud? Ok yeah, this shit's impossible without an armature/radshield.
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 8, 2017 6:31:24 GMT
I DON'T F**KING UNDERSTAND WHY CAN'T THE F**KING PROPELLANT BURN/EXPLODE BEFORE THE SLUG CAME OUTYou ok bud? Ok yeah, this shit's impossible without an armature/radshield. My potato-grade processor is baked. Would you call that okay?
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Post by David367th on Mar 8, 2017 6:33:48 GMT
You ok bud? Ok yeah, this shit's impossible without an armature/radshield. My potato-grade processor is baked. Would you call that okay? Do you have enough sour cream for a baked potato processor?
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 8, 2017 6:55:33 GMT
My potato-grade processor is baked. Would you call that okay? Do you have enough sour cream for a baked potato processor? No. I am in low inclination orbit around Earth and is my ship running low of food. I took out my baked potato processor and replaced it with a new potato-graded processor (spare: x 12) and ate it as my lunch. Thanks. btw, what if a yandere make a cannon to fight against their rivals to save their senpai (you know what's my current addict)? I'm kinda curious.
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Post by lieste on Mar 8, 2017 7:16:59 GMT
I like the effort, but technically a payload isn't shooting pure rubber. If the thing didn't have the explosive core, you would've won. They should have used a radiation shield made of nitrile rubber instead. Of course this defeats the point of the challenge that there is likely a bug on how the 'propellant is being wasted' warning is determined. The threshold for that warning appears to be 11% efficiency for this configuration at least. I managed around 8%, but no better with a simple rubber projectile alone. Some were very much above 500m/s. The warning is replaced at the 500m/s threshold with the low velocity warning - I didn't ever see both, no matter how inefficient in propellant use the low velocity shot was. I'd argue that there is little problem with the propellant amounts needed to throw modest rubber shot from a well designed gun, a high % of wasted propellant compared to the threshold from a few grams is a negligible 'waste' per shot.
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Post by Bard on Mar 8, 2017 8:00:48 GMT
99.99994% Rubber. Seriously?
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Post by Bard on Mar 8, 2017 8:10:37 GMT
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Post by AdmiralObvious on Mar 8, 2017 8:23:39 GMT
Was this a kill from hitting up the tail? Because I've done similar with Polyethylene flak shells and killed a Corsair in largely the same way. (I've had a recent habit of trying to make the most useless of all possible weapons and testing them against the stock ships. In this case, I was shooting for a 5M gun capable of firing off rubber as a "discouragement gun" similar to the shotgun, but in space. Something to knock them off course, but not penetrate, hopefully. Penetration would've been acceptable though.) 99.99994% Rubber. Seriously? I forgot to put the word "pure" in the title.
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Post by Bard on Mar 8, 2017 9:41:30 GMT
Was this a kill from hitting up the tail? Because I've done similar with Polyethylene flak shells and killed a Corsair in largely the same way. (I've had a recent habit of trying to make the most useless of all possible weapons and testing them against the stock ships. In this case, I was shooting for a 5M gun capable of firing off rubber as a "discouragement gun" similar to the shotgun, but in space. Something to knock them off course, but not penetrate, hopefully. Penetration would've been acceptable though.) 99.99994% Rubber. Seriously? I forgot to put the word "pure" in the title. Core shot head on. Ordered "Rubber Round", 500m/s or more, shot from cannon, no wasted propellant. 99.9994% Rubber Round, 530m/s or so, shot from cannon, no wasted propellant. Order met. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
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Post by Rocket Witch on Mar 10, 2017 0:43:24 GMT
The real question is — can we use a gun made of rubber to shoot rubber?
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Post by David367th on Mar 10, 2017 0:56:35 GMT
The real question is — can we use a gun made of rubber to shoot rubber? ಠ_ಠ You can, but your ballistic efficiency is garbage.
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Post by teeth on Mar 10, 2017 1:09:58 GMT
The real question is — can we use a gun made of rubber to shoot rubber? One rubber gun that is made of rubber AND shoots rubber coming right up.
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 10, 2017 2:03:52 GMT
whys it called 12.7x7.2 when its a 34mm cannon teeth
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Post by AdmiralObvious on Mar 10, 2017 2:39:18 GMT
I'm slightly curious about that naming convention too.
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