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[Stilgar of Troon]

 

[SIGSEGV]

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[BONE_Buddy]

a thousand mile range on an artillery cannon? theres no fucking way this is real

Currently in development:

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/army-tests-new-a2-ad-tools-howitzers-missiles-1000-mile-supergun/

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2019/10/16/strategic-long-range-cannon-preps-to-jump-its-first-tech-hurdle/

Army Building 1,000-Mile Supergun

While the Strategic Long-Range Cannon will hit targets at ranges comparable to bleeding-edge hypersonics missiles, Army officials emphasized the cannon is built on proven principles, just bigger.

breakingdefense.com

The Army’s 1,000-Mile Long Range Cannon Is Coming Together

The service wants a prototype system in 2023.

www.popularmechanics.com

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It is a Rocket Assisted Projectile on steroids and cybernetic enhancements.

 

[Stilgar of Troon]

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[A_Skellington]

Fugg

 

[Curt Sibling]

I recommend watching the movie, and if you enjoy it reading some of the manga

The manga is cool. The movie is OK. Not sure if it warrants this level of worship.

 

[verissimus]

Sleeping Beauty retold with Christian Birmingham as the artist.

 

[Curt Sibling]

I once found some of my early shitposting from B3TA in a newspaper.

 

[Distant Stare]

The manga is cool. The movie is OK. Not sure if it warrants this level of worship.

What is weird is that I have a vivid memory from when I was very young seeing my older sister have a picture of Gally from the manga on her wall or computer. This might have been before computers were that common at home, or in teens rooms. I did not know what it was, and thought it was weird. It was that one photo where her guts are falling out.

I did not remember it until I saw a photo of it again, and so I watched the movie and got into the manga.

 

[J45 Hamwich]

Twitter is making some changes.
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Blacklist should have been changed to cancelled.

Funny how they take "folks" and "y'all" as if its their own. Bitch about cultural appropriation yet commit the same sin.

 

[M3xus]

Funny how they take "folks" and "y'all" as if its their own. Bitch about cultural appropriation yet commit the same sin.

If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all. Alternatively, something something, reclaiming from racists, something something.

 

[No_one]

 

[Meat Target]

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

At 0:21 the Japanese pilot shoots the enemy pilot after he's bailed out. That's a war crime. Fun little fact.

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Technically, the plane with the front propeller is derived of a mix between a Spitfire and a Mustang P51D, the plane that gets destroyed is based on the Japanese Kyushu... but in the setting of the movie, it's some alternate history and both planes belong to nations with German-sounding names.

The movie is also pretty fucking sweet.

Currently in development:

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/05/army-tests-new-a2-ad-tools-howitzers-missiles-1000-mile-supergun/

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/ausa/2019/10/16/strategic-long-range-cannon-preps-to-jump-its-first-tech-hurdle/

Army Building 1,000-Mile Supergun

While the Strategic Long-Range Cannon will hit targets at ranges comparable to bleeding-edge hypersonics missiles, Army officials emphasized the cannon is built on proven principles, just bigger.

breakingdefense.com

The Army’s 1,000-Mile Long Range Cannon Is Coming Together

The service wants a prototype system in 2023.

www.popularmechanics.com

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It is a Rocket Assisted Projectile on steroids and cybernetic enhancements.

I was about to suggest that it might be some artillery that fires a rocket in a high arc, which then starts its engine at a height, where drag is lower, to get a longer range.

The Paris Gun of WW1 fame, for instance, fired so high, the difference in drag at high altitudes made the the range calculations much more complex than ordinary mortars and so on. The gun crews would have to factor in the peak height of their ballistics and account for the severely reduced drag, or else the projectile might go too far downrange.
Given that, it's not hard to imagine the capability to increase range even further by adding a small rocket motor.

And given the availability of artillery-fired nukes, that is a pretty devastating weapon.

 

[SuiSui1]

 

[DumbDude42]

Given that, it's not hard to imagine the capability to increase range even further by adding a small rocket motor.

yeah but you have to make a rocket motor that can survive getting fired out of a cannon barrel by exploding gunpowder lol
thats a major challenge for any device with moving parts

 

[TexOffender]

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

yeah but you have to make a rocket motor that can survive getting fired out of a cannon barrel by exploding gunpowder lol
thats a major challenge for any device with moving parts

It doesn't really need moving parts. If it's a solid rocket motor, it only needs a fuse and electronics, and those easily withstand forces of up to several thousands of G forces.
Point in case: any artillery munition with a proximity fuze ever.
Edit: If the above system not only uses a rocket engine at its peak altitude but also during ascent, it can get away with a much lower muzzle velocity, effectively just jump-starting a missile, which would in turn possibly allow mechanical parts to a small degree.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

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Who is this?

 

[Cast Iron Pan]