lets take page form star wars, I could call it a "TURBO-Railgun"It won't be called a railgun then.
Apparently 12 to 24 before replacement, which is why the USN temporarily shelved the project.I mean sure but HOW much of a problem?
Having the barrel of an artillery piece wear out after say 300 shots of intensive use and 600 shots of regular use is one thing.
If the railgun needs a new barrel after every shot or every other shot then it is useless.
Apparently 12 to 24 before replacement, which is why the USN temporarily shelved the project.
They went with railgun vs coilgun because the operation of the railgun is dead simple in comparison.
When your range is several hundred kilometers, at first they figured it's probably not much of a problem. Specially if it's at sea where artillery counterbattery is irrelevant. But being that rails are big and heavy, it is too inconvenient to perform rail replacement while under way.Ouch.
yea that way too little.
Either material tech will have to mature more or find new configrations.
see this is why I was thinking of replacing the rails with something with some self healing capacity compared to current material
Unfortunately while plasmas are conductive, but they do not push out magnetic fields as much. They tend to be electrically neutral. Magnetic fields contain plasma, they tend not to generate them without pumping gross amounts of electricity to induce currents.see this is why I was thinking of replacing the rails with something with some self healing capacity compared to current material
Yeah that's probably where the tech is heading.Hhum nanomaterial/paste of some sort huh.
That would be grand.
any non compressible liquids that might work?Unfortunately while plasmas are conductive, but they do not push out magnetic fields as much. They tend to be electrically neutral. Magnetic fields contain plasma, they tend not to generate them without pumping gross amounts of electricity to induce currents.
"What about the sun then?" One might ask.
... planetary levels of plasma is not viable for turning into a railgun. Just fire the plasma itself.
Yeah that's probably where the tech is heading.
Solid chunks of iron remain vastly less cumbersome than anything that needs to be held under pressure.any non compressible liquids that might work?
A rail has, like, 4 sides.there is always the I need this right now sultion we'd see in a movie
yes the ship has 2 rail guns due to the power involved in the shots and current limits of materiel science and the requirement set by the joint chief, we've add barrel replacement to the auto mated ammo fed process.
the replacement rails? well once the internal mag is expended the 7,000 ton supply ship is caring our reloads about 500 meter to our starboard
Molten metal, as in MAHEM.any non compressible liquids that might work?