Using a scramjet as a sustainer motor. Read "miles per second' as "meters per second"
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=1170
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=1170
Tank-launched scramjet
- Thread starter Uncle Bob
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Capt. Blacklight
SOC-12
OK, that makes sense, even to me. This could bring back the gun ships of old. Nothing says Love Like a 9 gun broadside from Iowa, Wisonson,or New Jersy.
Originally posted by Uncle Bob:
Using a scramjet as a sustainer motor. Read "miles per second' as "meters per second"
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=1170
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Giving smaller guns more power makes sense (any idea about min calibre?), but giving bigger direct-fire guns more range is less useful. Accuracy is a problem at long range, and often you can't see further than a couple of km anyway.
How does weight, cost, and recoil compare to standard ammo?
How does weight, cost, and recoil compare to standard ammo?
120mm to be tested, much smaller sizes possible down to minimum for scram chamber so easily cannon sized.
Higher velocity allows for higher impact speeds on Kinetic Kill weapons or much longer ranges.
Accuracy can be enhanced at long range by vectoring or nozzle venting the thrust to allow the rounds to manover in flight combined with either a target seeker head or a GPS style unit. Bear in mind target seeker heads for missiles and bombs are fairly small now and with UAV research playing with tiny spotter drones the limit becomes how small you can make the laser designator and battery.
Consider launching a cloud of bird sized drones from a deployment missile which then spread out and designate targets for incoming top attack kinetic rounds fired from 200-300 miles away.
As for size and weight, about what they are now, recoil is as normal due as the round is fired like a normal round but generates thrust to keep improving speed after it leaves the barrel. Cost will be silly money till the tech becomes more established then you will be paying as much for the electronics as for the shell.
A good idea and part of a large ammount of research that makes some of the traveller stuff look crude by comparison.
I wonder what it would take to make something like this round reach escape velocity?
It could be a new and really cheap way to get things into orbit.
For those of a more military bent, What would it take to get the round up to a interconntenental range? That way it might be possible to shell a city from the far side of the world. Think of the super gun Richard Ball was making for Saddam.
It could be a new and really cheap way to get things into orbit.
For those of a more military bent, What would it take to get the round up to a interconntenental range? That way it might be possible to shell a city from the far side of the world. Think of the super gun Richard Ball was making for Saddam.
