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Post by foxbat on Jul 16, 2017 8:27:30 GMT
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Post by foxbat on Jul 16, 2017 8:27:50 GMT
Hello btw nice to meet you all
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Post by karlos kickelstuga on Jul 16, 2017 16:55:58 GMT
yes you can
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Post by teeth on Jul 16, 2017 18:03:04 GMT
You can have a coilgun that shoots drones which use a conventional gun to fire missiles which deploy several smaller nuclear missiles. You can even fire entire capital ships out of a gun if it's big enough.
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Post by lennson on Jul 16, 2017 20:11:51 GMT
However, a coil gun will have a really long charge time if you want to fire something heavy (> 1 ton) at a reasonable speed (> 1 km/s). This is because the maximum power that can be put in is 1 GW.
For firing something heavy I think a conventional gun ends up being more viable.
It should be possible to have a conventional gun fire a 9.5Mt nuke (which can be made to weight about 1.3 tons) at ~3km/s.
The new blast launchers are probably even better if you want something that is somewhat practical.
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Post by jtyotjotjipaefvj on Jul 16, 2017 22:15:57 GMT
You can't put the blast launcher on a turret though, so the conventional gun is likely the best option if you don't want to put on some thrusters on that nuke.
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Post by Durandal on Jul 17, 2017 1:30:29 GMT
You can't put the blast launcher on a turret though, so the conventional gun is likely the best option if you don't want to put on some thrusters on that nuke. Tried shooting a blast launcher out of a gun?  (It's very effective.) |
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Post by Rocket Witch on Jul 18, 2017 20:03:45 GMT
However, a coil gun will have a really long charge time if you want to fire something heavy (> 1 ton) at a reasonable speed (> 1 km/s). This is because the maximum power that can be put in is 1 GW. For firing something heavy I think a conventional gun ends up being more viable. It should be possible to have a conventional gun fire a 9.5Mt nuke (which can be made to weight about 1.3 tons) at ~3km/s. The new blast launchers are probably even better if you want something that is somewhat practical. Sufficient limits.txt editing could allow insane shit like yotawatt coilguns shooting hundred-teraton nukes at half of lightspeed. |
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Post by execute13 on Aug 30, 2017 16:56:07 GMT
Sufficient limits.txt editing could allow insane shit like yotawatt coilguns shooting hundred-teraton nukes at half of lightspeed. Good luck powering said yottawatt coilgun. |
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Post by madmike on Aug 30, 2017 18:06:48 GMT
Sufficient limits.txt editing could allow insane shit like yotawatt coilguns shooting hundred-teraton nukes at half of lightspeed. Good luck powering said yottawatt coilgun. Just use even more limits editing! Or just stack a bunch of GW reactors and end up with a ship several kilometers long. |
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Post by Kerr on Aug 30, 2017 21:56:32 GMT
Good luck powering said yottawatt coilgun. Just use even more limits editing! Or just stack a bunch of GW reactors and end up with a ship several astronomical units long. |
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Post by overloaderdave on Sept 28, 2017 7:54:40 GMT
with limits editing you can get up to 50TW reactors to work well, which makes petawatt scale achievable. Yottawatt, not so much thanks to the radiators.
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Post by Kerr on Sept 28, 2017 14:23:58 GMT
with limits editing you can get up to 50TW reactors to work well, which makes petawatt scale achievable. Yottawatt, not so much thanks to the radiators. I'd like to see the train sized superconductors carrying this amount of power |
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Post by dichebach on Nov 5, 2017 22:59:59 GMT
I want mini-nuke bullets for my "guns" (don't care what kind). So far, haven't succeeded.
Also flechette payloads for rail/coil guns.
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