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To: Strategerist

Never say never. These things will be mounted on ships right? Ships sit on top of a pretty big heat sink if I’m not mistaken.


25 posted on 02/28/2012 9:11:27 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre

Well it’s a trade-off; if the rounds are much smaller and your dumpinng in less power, you can get a higher rate of fire.

But themal management is a huge problem; you won’t be pumping out 32MJ shots to 100 nm at hundreds of rounds a minute, even on a ship.

Key thing is the barrel erosion problems preventing any refiring at all seem to have largely been solved.

We also have the slight problem that we really don’t have a ship to put it on; the DDG 51 Flt III design is horribly cramped and basically filled just by putting the new AMDR radar on; you can get a small railgun on if you delete the 5” and lose a bunch of VLS cells.


32 posted on 02/28/2012 9:17:10 PM PST by Strategerist
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