Post by luxardens on Nov 23, 2019 23:35:57 GMT
I've recently had a lot of fun with octa-x-cubanes to design some more-powerful-than-usual chemical guns (7 km/s), as well as metallic hydrogen pellets (14 km/s). But it's not enough. I need my guns to have MOAR POWER. Railguns fire pathetic grains of sand. Coilguns take infinite electricity. No. It won't do.
I need a conventional, big tube to launch projectiles of several kilograms at ridiculous velocities and I figured: why no nuclear propellant? We can make pocket nukes in CDE, and variable yield nukes are already a thing in real life so why not use a 100 gram low-yield (10 ton "fizzle" for example) nuke to propel a projectile out of a barrel instead of several kilograms of chemical compounds? I'm trying to mod "nuke propellant" in, but the grain size feature kind of screws everything up. Anybody got ideas on how to fix that? A nuke shouldn't have a grain size.... Or should I maybe put it at the estimated size of the pocket nuke??
Also, does anybody know of any projects that examined nuclear guns? Would probably have to be recoilless and suffer excessive ablation, but I figure there must be something, right? I'm not looking for Casaba, or project Plumbbob, I know about those. But are there any papers on the kind of chamber thickness required to contain a very modest (10-1000 ton) nuclear explosion?
It only has to last a dozen shots at minimum. It would make immense spinal mount guns with multi-ton slugs more... feasible.
I need a conventional, big tube to launch projectiles of several kilograms at ridiculous velocities and I figured: why no nuclear propellant? We can make pocket nukes in CDE, and variable yield nukes are already a thing in real life so why not use a 100 gram low-yield (10 ton "fizzle" for example) nuke to propel a projectile out of a barrel instead of several kilograms of chemical compounds? I'm trying to mod "nuke propellant" in, but the grain size feature kind of screws everything up. Anybody got ideas on how to fix that? A nuke shouldn't have a grain size.... Or should I maybe put it at the estimated size of the pocket nuke??
Also, does anybody know of any projects that examined nuclear guns? Would probably have to be recoilless and suffer excessive ablation, but I figure there must be something, right? I'm not looking for Casaba, or project Plumbbob, I know about those. But are there any papers on the kind of chamber thickness required to contain a very modest (10-1000 ton) nuclear explosion?
It only has to last a dozen shots at minimum. It would make immense spinal mount guns with multi-ton slugs more... feasible.
