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| Centrifugal weapon could deliver stealth firepower | |
| 2005-05-19 | |
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| Posted by:Yosemite Sam |
| #12 "Don't cross the streams!" Aww now you've gone and done it. Prepare to be slimed. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-05-19 21:15 |
| #11 Light sabres will break if you clash two together. |
| Posted by: Get Real 2005-05-19 21:08 |
| #10 how about a light saber |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-05-19 21:02 |
| #9 Centrifugal weapon could deliver stealth firepower Catapult ! Thanks , I'll take the grant money please . £25,650,000 you say ? Great ! I'll buy the dinner . |
| Posted by: MacNails 2005-05-19 20:56 |
| #8 Wasn't this in Diamond Age, but with nanotech? |
| Posted by: Asedwich 2005-05-19 20:12 |
| #7 A friend, an engineer and a gun collector said this: bull. The writer has a poor grasp of physics. "Zero recoil" - countered by gyroscopic effect on aiming. "catastrophic explosion ...is zero" - watch that disk shatter and spall. "a weapon that doesn't jam" - right "So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible" - friction? "So, identifying the gun itself with IR (infrared) sensors will be impossible" - detect the RF emissions of the spinner? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-05-19 20:10 |
| #6 The gyroscopic twist can be counteracted by a disk spinning counter to the slug thrower. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-05-19 15:46 |
| #5 How about a gauss-powered needle gun spitting 0.01mm needles at just short of lightspeed? |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-05-19 15:45 |
| #4 Just cut the spacing by 8.5 mm and it's called a spear. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-05-19 15:29 |
| #3 How do you aim and point the thing? The spinning mass in the weapon will act as a spinning gyroscope. After it's spinning, it'll be an absolute bitch to point. |
| Posted by: Dave 2005-05-19 15:13 |
| #2 I'm still for a mass driver or Gauss rifle. Just think, a 250lb watermelon size slug of metal hitting a target at speeds nearing Mach 2. Vaporizing goodness... |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-05-19 13:50 |
| #1 A gun that spits out ball bearings after spinning them to extreme speeds is being developed by a US inventor. Was this a joint effort with PepsiCo? |
| Posted by: BH 2005-05-19 13:43 |