And do the slide into insanity begins... ::)
My decent into madnes"
Hello, friends, infidels, and target practice.
Today I was finally able to blow up one of the largest mysteries in the BattleTech Universum.
THE NAVAL AUTOCANNON - while the description in the lore sounds like a Techmarines wet-dream Nova Cannon of a fairytale universe, all you've got was a crude picture.
Now consider the NAC10 cannon for a moment, you have a heavy cannon several hundreds of tons and you've got ammunition - and the ammunition is the strange part - you get 5 rounds per ton for the lightest AC.... in other words, a gun multiple times larger and heavier than an AC20 consumes less ammunition but deals 5 times as much damage. (5 rounds in Battlespace = 5minutes, 5 rounds in TT are 50 seconds) - so for a single round we talk about 200kg per shot of a NAC10. 😱
When we look at the paradigms of space combat you want your shots be fast and you want to have many shots.... well now do this withing 200kg, one way is to shoot pebbles lots of them the other, well the other way is insanity.... and I went the way of insanity.
There you have a 10 inch cannon with a length of 40m instead of a single large propellant charge you will have several ignition chambers - (YES 💩Godwins Laws V3 principle) so you have a constant pressure the whole 40m.
Because you don't have the atmosphere you don't need a ballistic cap - no the bullet is a short cylinder with an EPF warhead (Explosive formed Penetrator - that will add additional ~2000m/s in the last part of the flight) to add more speed and limited maneuverability the shell also has a rocket booster.
And because inner ballistics bigger is better - it also features a sabot - to a total caliber of 14 inch.
At 200kg I get 3 rounds with a v0 of ~5-8km/s add the rocket and the EPF you might end with a kinetic impact of 10km/s or even more. It has 4 barrels because as you can imagine heat is a problem, so in a minute 3 barrels are shooting and one is flushed with coolant.
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Did you like this madness?
Yes the gun is gar from finished just a proof of co....ehm madness, no Sparta