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2128498 No.2128498 [Reply] [Original]

/k/ here, we put that order for a gauss rifle out like 50 years ago and we're still wainting. Show some hustle and atleast make us some death rays or something.

>> No.2128506

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8&feature=player_embedded

Now all we need is a high durability fiber optic cable and you have a directed beam weapon.

>> No.2128505

>/k/ here
Stopped reading right there.

>> No.2128507

How about a kinetic weapon from orbit, /k/? Railguns are presenting a bit of difficulty...

>> No.2128513
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This wasn't enough?!

>> No.2128517

>>2128507
Or rather, firing the second shot in any reasonable time during battle is difficult.

>> No.2128519

>>2128507
nuke the site from orbit? like orbiting missile platforms?

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>>2128513
>looks cool
>takes six hours to reload

>> No.2128521

>>2128517

With a first shot like that, if you hit the other guy, you don't need a second shot.

>> No.2128526
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2128526

>>/k/
you realize you get half our fucking budget on military and half the worlds military spending?
almost every scientist hates the military and weapons, you fucking niggers do nothing but bleed us dry and cause retarded wars that drain the fucking economy down the shitter, meanwhile projects like missions to mars, undersea and asteroid mining all get ignored so you fucking niggers can spend a factor greater money killing sand niggers but LOSING the war!

take your guns and an hero.

>> No.2128528

>>2128521
>if you hit the other guy
>five hundred thousand other guys

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>>2128526
u mad? u mad

>> No.2128537

>>2128517

I think the use of this would be to knock out a high-priority target from a safe distance. Get a few of these mounted on moving platforms along with some mortar fire and it's a party.

>> No.2128543

>>2128521
>doesn't realize that a gun that takes 2 shots to destroy a target but only takes 20 secs to reload is better then a 1 hit gun that takes 6 hours to reload

Also, the rails are the size of an average artillery piece but the capacitor banks are the size of a small room

>> No.2128545

Oh, forgot about UAVs. Air raid ahoy.

>> No.2128552
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>>2128526

Don't worry, as soon as it's profitable from a military standpoint, we'll move to other planets.

>> No.2128554

>>2128543

forgot to add, you also need generators to charge the capacitor banks, which make an easy target for heat seekers

>> No.2128560

>>2128520
Doesn't matter on the reload time if no-body is left standing.

I think the projective was weighing in at something along the lines of 50kg and travelling at 8x the speed of sound. The project needed no warhead as the impact had that of a 'small meteorite'.

Thinking about that now though, it doesn't seem all that impressive. Maybe I miss read a detail.

>> No.2128562

>>2128552
haha no, once its profitable we're going to head out and ditch you fuckers, Mars will be the new 'new world'

>> No.2128566

>>2128554

Not with inevitable improvements to thermal masking.

>> No.2128563

>>2128519
CERTAINLY NOT! Nukes in space are illegal, kinetic weapons are undefined.
>>2128528
This: >>2128521

>> No.2128578

>>2128554
You can power the thing off the ship's grid. Take for example the Nimitz-class carriers or the Gerald R. Ford: nuclear powered, therefore has plenty of juice to power a railgun.

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2128581

You rang?

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>>2128498
>/k/

Enjoy dying in pointless wars

LMAO

>> No.2128590

>>2128583
you're just mad we're styling on you

>> No.2128602

>>2128583
"It would be so nice if everyone forswore violence. Because then I could conquer the whole planet with a butter knife." - Dogbert

>>2128581
What in blazes is that? The Paris Gun?

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>>2128581
You call that a gun? This is a gun.

>> No.2128622

>>2128615
must have been a lesbian commander trying to compensate for the lack of a penis

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>>2128590

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>>2128615
Okay, THAT is the Paris Gun.

<- Now THIS is a gun!

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>>2128632
and this is also why mars will be a relativistic paradise compared to earth, lower gravity well, space ports, mostly scientists and engineer population, basicaly anyone and everyone who has a vested interest in giving the half of the budget for military endeavors the finger, and in the perfect position to be totally unthreatened by attacks. counter measures are cheap and only involve keeping the peace on mars and fending off interplanetary ballistics, once you get into space an invasion force becomes entirely unpractical if the opposing side doesn't want you there. near planetary object sensors and railguns make a take over obsolete, and any other situation is MAD. GG USA

>> No.2128697

>>2128665
I'm not sure we could fend off an interplanetary attack from Mars, or even if it was worth it to attack. The biggest defense might be that it's probably not worth it to attack in the first place. That, and the fact that there's no stealth in space, unless you count the amount of empty space to scan.

Then again, there are two handy moons that can be fitted with thrusters, and dropped on Mars or Earth, whichever you prefer.

>> No.2128711

>>2128697
besides chucking high velocity rice. what possible attack couldn't be countered without ridiculous nessesity for man power?

>> No.2128743

>>2128711
One that has no chance of getting through your defenses?

>> No.2128763

>>2128743
so there we have it, unless the nations of earth want to suicide attack mars there wont ever be an invasion.

>> No.2128780

>>2128763
My point exactly: it's simply not worth it.

>> No.2128914

out of curiosity,
how much carbon is available on mars and is it fairly easy to extract?

>> No.2129083

bump

>> No.2129194

Car battery hooked up to a power conversion circuit, heat dissipating stuff, and a microwave horn.

Car batteries can put out about 800 amps at 12 volts, and weighs about forty pounds. This is 9.6 kilowatts. Assume fairly shitty efficiency and forty more pounds of other stuff, and you can pump, oh, five kilowatts of heat directly at someone. Its going to be fairly short-ranged at that efficiency, sure, but five kilowatts of heat can kill someone (eventually? I'm not entirely sure how much thermal energy is required to kill someone)

Is that close enough to a death ray for you?