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Post by gedzilla on Mar 29, 2017 14:56:09 GMT
Right now im using depleted uranium, buts its a little to dense ?
what is the best flak bomb material ?
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 29, 2017 14:57:55 GMT
Denser means less space required for the flak, and maybe osmium is just good enough.
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Post by uberdude9001 on Mar 29, 2017 15:26:16 GMT
Denser means less space required for the flak, and maybe osmium is just good enough. The fragment size seems to vary based on the brittleness of the material though. I used to use osmium but I switched to diamond because it provides heavier fragments.
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Post by mrsandman on Mar 29, 2017 16:20:55 GMT
I like osmium because it's pretty cheap and gives nice sized chunks of material when it explodes.
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Post by nerd1000 on Mar 29, 2017 22:04:02 GMT
Denser means less space required for the flak, and maybe osmium is just good enough. The fragment size seems to vary based on the brittleness of the material though. I used to use osmium but I switched to diamond because it provides heavier fragments. For a given mass of explosive and shrapnel the fragment size is almost entirely controlled by the ratio of length to width you design into the bomb. The longer and thinner it is, the smaller the fragments. Diamond is much less dense than Osmium and produces a fatter bomb for a given length, thus there are fewer fragments and each one is heavier. My favorite materials are iridium (cheaper than osmium with similar density) and copper ( the key element in the pursuit of ultimate power. Also cheap).
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Post by fallingaggressively on Mar 29, 2017 22:55:46 GMT
I need to do more testing but from what I've seen material hardness is also an important factor in armor penetration. For example swapping the stock flack warhead from aluminium to osmium gives better penetrations.
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Post by AdmiralObvious on Mar 29, 2017 23:33:12 GMT
I've had some good results with Carbon Steel. Relatively dense, relatively hard, and can easily be blasted, makes it a good all round choice for shrapnel.
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Post by v2rocket on Apr 1, 2017 22:52:19 GMT
Am I the only one who use lead? I put the flak into missiles with more than 5km/s delta-v, and the explosion range is set to be 10km so that they will hardly be intercepted by non-beam weapons.The fragments can still make horrible damages(penetrate all stock ships).
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Post by Durandal on Apr 2, 2017 0:35:55 GMT
The fragment size seems to vary based on the brittleness of the material though. I used to use osmium but I switched to diamond because it provides heavier fragments. For a given mass of explosive and shrapnel the fragment size is almost entirely controlled by the ratio of length to width you design into the bomb. The longer and thinner it is, the smaller the fragments. Diamond is much less dense than Osmium and produces a fatter bomb for a given length, thus there are fewer fragments and each one is heavier. My favorite materials are iridium (cheaper than osmium with similar density) and copper ( the key element in the pursuit of ultimate power. Also cheap). Screw boron, hail copper!
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Post by dragonkid11 on Apr 2, 2017 0:46:09 GMT
As long as it's dense, anything will rip through armor pretty well.
I tends to go for iridium for heavy density flak shell, and copper for medium density flak shell as they are really damn cheap.
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Post by RiftandRend on Apr 2, 2017 0:59:23 GMT
I use Zinc and vary the length of the bomb to adjust fragment size. Zinc is fairly dense and the cheapest material that can be easily used.
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Post by gedzilla on Apr 2, 2017 6:50:01 GMT
Has anyone tested if the flak ever fails to penetrate through the other side and just ricochets in the ship ?
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Post by RiftandRend on Apr 2, 2017 9:47:16 GMT
Has anyone tested if the flak ever fails to penetrate through the other side and just ricochets in the ship ? I suspect its possible though the flak bomb would have to be tuned specifically for the armor layout.
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Post by underwhelmed on Apr 3, 2017 16:17:38 GMT
Hardness? Brittleness? As far as I can tell, those material properties aren't in the game and the most important (perhaps only?) factor seems to be density.
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Post by gedzilla on Apr 3, 2017 16:56:55 GMT
Am I the only one who use lead? I put the flak into missiles with more than 5km/s delta-v, and the explosion range is set to be 10km so that they will hardly be intercepted by non-beam weapons.The fragments can still make horrible damages(penetrate all stock ships). 10km is pretty far away. my 180kg warhead denotes at 2km
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