Oerjan suggests a ceramic coating for a gauss flechette. Seems like a wise
idea - easier penetration through the atmosphere I'd imagine.
How about some sort of "molecularly aligned" metal or something like synthetic
diamond (maybe a diamond tip)? I dunno, just crazy talk.
As for spinning the round, couldn't you just have the field produced as the
round was accelerated be a spiral and thus induce a spiral motion in the
round? It might be creeping elegance, solution wise, but it should be
possible.
What about a grav railgun (these are what I assume KV ground troops
use!)?
Use the same grav control you use to give you intertial dampers to spin a
projectile and launch it. (That's why KV weapons are big and bulky -
pretty
much too heavy for most humans' strength level - or so goes part of the
PSB).
Just some other thoughts.
Hello all, I've been lurking here for a while, thought I'd jump in. First off,
my group plays SG, looking at DS (few run throughs) and are trying to
get FT from our store- as something different since B5 Wars is our main
game- I already have a small fleet of Sa'vas'ku (sp?) turned into Shadow
ships. Maybe the actual shadow cruiser minis (which are really nice BTW)
would make good Sa'vas'ku? :-)
Anyway,
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
We can put diamond films on objects now, it's a fairly simple process that was
developed by one of my professors at York University in Toronto (a few years
ago before I graduated). It involves a carbon coating, using high pressures
and a laser. The exact process of course I don't know, but I do know that he
apparently sold it to NASA. The plan I believe was to develop the process
further to create diamond films on satellites and other space
objects- the ultra hard coating to help protect from space dust etc. So
perhaps the flechette could be coated in a diamond film to help increase
strength and penetration? Just a thought,
Later,
> On 2-May-00 at 13:45, Alex Kettle (squawk@csolve.net) wrote:
First
> off, my group plays SG, looking at DS (few run throughs) and are
So
> perhaps the flechette could be coated in a diamond film to help
Just saw a pointer on rec.photo newsgroups that they were starting to coat
lenses with a diamond coating, can't be that expensive. (Although I do large
format and $2K for a lense is not unusual).
> Thomas.Barclay wrote:
> Oerjan suggests a ceramic coating for a gauss flechette. Seems like a
At least easier penetration through the atmosphere beyond the point where a
normal metal flechette would have started melting <g>
> How about some sort of "molecularly aligned" metal or something like
"Molecularly aligned" metal sounds like a magnet to me :-/
> As for spinning the round, couldn't you just have the field produced
As long as you don't twist the flechette, or cause it to tumble
in-bore... It sounds as if it'll use a lot more energy just to create
and maintain the field than it can impart to the flechette, though.
> What about a grav railgun (these are what I assume KV ground troops
You don't need to spin it at all in this case. The reason to try to spin the
flechette was to avoid having a bulb at the rear end (to make it fit better
into the barrel), but if it just falls straight "down" the barrel that bulb is
no problem as long as the center of gravity of the flechette is well forward.
OK, you probably *could* use a rapidly-varying artificial gravity field
to spin the flechette up, but that's pretty much like buying a
brand-new Cray because your Casio fx-82 pocket calculator has used up
its battery...
Regards,