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Longinus Anti-Orbital Railcannon by Death_Silence_66

Death_Silence_66
Death_Silence_66
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2nd Jun 2015
4th Jan 2018
The Longinus is a 22 m l/12 electromagnetic mass driver, firing projectiles at 90 km/s. Projectiles utilize basic shield technology avoid atmosphereic friction. Only one of these cannons survived the Imperium's fall, and is now an icon of their military.
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Comments

  • Death_Silence_66
    Death_Silence_66     5th Jun 2015
    @runemaster, This shell impacts the target before detonating. Detonating a nuclear weapon in space means there are no gas particles to carry the heat and pressure waves. When this projectile is ripping through a ship and detonates, all of the heat is directed into it's hull.
  • runemaster
    runemaster     5th Jun 2015
    Hurray for two piece comments
  • runemaster
    runemaster     5th Jun 2015
    Except you're forgetting that SPACE IS A VACUUM, making a nuclear explosion nearly useless. Nuclear missiles or just nukes in general would be nerfed like Dota 2 characters. While this is still a rather strong weapon, it wouldn't exactly
  • runemaster
    runemaster     5th Jun 2015
    be the end of all things. Also, to 987tails, not really. When you line up a shot it fires, then recoil can be felt. Even if that did happen, it wouldn't be a MAJOR issue. This is more like firing a shotgun. No matter what you do, you're probably going to hit your target. On top of that, y'know, nuclear material in the shells = big boom, even if nerfed by the vacuum of space.
  • Vrox11
    Vrox11     5th Jun 2015
    layers*
  • Vrox11
    Vrox11     5th Jun 2015
    Also if a Nuke detonated in space, around a planet with that type of shell size, it would be prone to striping a few if not all of the magnetosphere
  • Binarydream
    Binarydream     5th Jun 2015
    Neutrons on the back of the warhead on the crane, I dare ya!
  • Korteweg
    Korteweg     5th Jun 2015
    It is a mass driver. The structure can handle it.
  • 987tails
    987tails     5th Jun 2015
    you know that a gun that big would have to support over 50000 tons of firepower that would make the fire so unstable it would have a chance of destroying the gun itself or obliderate its surroundings. smooth move @silent-death
  • rop1p
    rop1p     5th Jun 2015
    a few ideas for the shells. 1, a layer of ttan around it would channel all of that pressure out the back, instead of outward. 2, a thicker layer of a ttan/tung on the outside would allow a rudimentary shaping of the blast, providing more damage.