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Post by deadwoodgultch on Jul 22, 2017 22:29:40 GMT
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dave
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Post by dave on Jul 27, 2017 20:17:18 GMT
Tom As a follow up to your comments regarding the magnetic catapult I saw an article about the Navy testing another electromagnetic railgun. Buck Rogers in the 21th Century! Imagine a weapon system capable of hitting targets 50 or 100 miles away from a surface navy vessel. If it is indeed a reliable armament it would be much cheaper per round than a missile, would it not? Groups like ISIS would be concerned with the implementing this system let alone hostile ships etc. I have the site for a video below about the weapon. Regards Dave www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_zXuOQy6A |
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Post by quincannon on Jul 27, 2017 21:44:07 GMT
How are they to determine fall of shot and what method is there for adjusting fires?
A gun is only half the system. If you have no way to control fires then the gun itself is useless junk.
Is the method of fire control going to be from space? Is it going to be a drone? Is it going to be something else?
Until both the gun, and the ship that carries it, and the system of fire direction is worked out there is nothing that says this will be cheaper or more reliable, or more anything than the missiles we already have, that are proven and operational today.
Also is a gun more lethal. I don't know but I have seen and do know what currently deployed missile systems can do.
The only thing a gun brings to the table that is a weakness of a missile, is that the projectile cannot be spoofed or shot down.
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Post by mac on Jul 27, 2017 22:01:56 GMT
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Post by quincannon on Jul 27, 2017 23:45:04 GMT
Mac I understand the defensive aspects of the weapon in that it is sensor guided to target. The video explained it well, and it was pretty much as I expected it to be.
I am having a very difficult time with Dave thinking people like ISIS would be concerned with this weapon. You must adjust fire onto a target. There was absolutely nothing that enlightened me in the video as to how that would be done. You must observe the target by some means to adjust fire in real time.
Now the soap salesman part of that video that wishes to pull the wool over the eyes of the unwary. You see this truck with a mounted rocket launcher emerge from its shelter, launch its weapons and sit there. Seconds later it is destroyed by incoming rounds from counterbattery fire, which is mathematically calculated and fired on a reciprocal compass reading to the incoming round that is detected by counterbattery radar. Seems very simple and direct, and as a matter of fact that is how it is done today. Problem is that when that truck fires off those rockets, his next move is to get as far away from the launch location as possible. Thus all that rail gun is going to do is stir up dust.
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