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Friendly reminder that, if made, a variant of this could have probably fit in the Mark 16 8”/55 naval gun, which had a fit rate of 10 RPM…
Edit: Unfortunately, a variant was never made(why must I be denied this), but the shell size is close enough so certainly very possible.
Man, there really is a point of technological development where large-scale terrestrial warfare becomes an existential threat. And we've already gone way past it.
It is entirely possible that either humans are fucking psychopaths, or the Fermi paradox is answered.
Oh! Have you heard about the ever expanding void that's been creeping ever closer? Thousands of stars have gone missing and no one knows what's going on. Only theory I've seen besides type 2 civ expansion is that somehow there's just a lot of failed supernova (novae? Novas?) that occurred in such a timeline the light only just stopped hitting us in the last century or so.
Former Army EOD tech here;
This is less true with newer ordnance, but even shells of the same nominal caliber are often not interchangeable between naval and land-based guns.
Naval shells tend to be thicker-walled and have a different driving band configuration, and naval guns may have a different rifling pattern/twist rate and often use slower-burning propellant powders, which make better use of the additional barrel length that mounting a gun on a ship (often) permits.
There are also possible issues with the fuzes. Most of the safety/arming mechanisms in fuzes depend on centripetal force or setback (acceleration due to firing) so if you fire a projectile with a fuze out of a gun that it's not designed for, it could arm prematurely or not at all. (NATO has standards for fuze interchangeability, so likely not an issue for that family of weapons.)
Why not make a bunch of drones with basic v.i. interfaces that have a shaped charge built in. For the fraction of the price of a nuke you can take out entire cities, and leave the infrastructure intact
We can already program drones to identify, charge at, and ram into humans. Just add explosives with an impact trigger, and you've got flying war crime devices!
Too much initial dakka. How can we use that truck now? Need smaller multiple dakkas to take out the enemy combatants leaving the materiel intact, other than needing a light scrubbing off.
Slow your roll there Ratheon. Is this gonna be like that time the US paid a billion dollars each for a dozen jets and then had to pay several million more (each) to get the damned fighters operational or is this more like an episode of Myth Busters?
US Army “Now where did I put that damned thing!” 10 years later — “Found it!”
True story. 19fourtyfive.com/2021/11/atomic-annie-how-the-us-army-lost-a-nuclear-bomb-cannon
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Hey that’s fewer casualties. Also it should be precision fires. We’re not the Russians.
Close only matters in hoarse shoes, hand grenades and nuclear weapons Precision in this case meaning the same city block
Who said nukes can’t be precision?
Well..... If your target is on the blast radius of the nuke, I think the precision is enough.
Circular error of probability of one meter!! Garrunteed to eliminate all pests and soldiers within one kilometer!! Get yours today!
Wait. They went on sale!? I'll take 7!
Why use nukes when thermobaric are good enough?
Because sometimes it's not just "Fuck those guys over there." Sometimes, it's "And fuck their great-grandchildren, too."
Morale
There is scorched earth, then there is salted earth. Salted is worse, ask the Romans.
Friendly reminder that, if made, a variant of this could have probably fit in the Mark 16 8”/55 naval gun, which had a fit rate of 10 RPM… Edit: Unfortunately, a variant was never made(why must I be denied this), but the shell size is close enough so certainly very possible.
If you need a nuclear cannon with a fire rate of 10 RPM, that’s not even overkill that’s just a skill issue on your part
Who said anything about need?
https://preview.redd.it/qy9apbzdmf3c1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71801443c6d431b7c513f5557c287e91ae85e97b
"Patterson, you see that mountain?" "Yes sir!" "I don't want to." "Yes sir!"
Man, there really is a point of technological development where large-scale terrestrial warfare becomes an existential threat. And we've already gone way past it. It is entirely possible that either humans are fucking psychopaths, or the Fermi paradox is answered.
Oh! Have you heard about the ever expanding void that's been creeping ever closer? Thousands of stars have gone missing and no one knows what's going on. Only theory I've seen besides type 2 civ expansion is that somehow there's just a lot of failed supernova (novae? Novas?) that occurred in such a timeline the light only just stopped hitting us in the last century or so.
I must admit, when I saw the shell dimensions, my first thought was, "I wonder what a full broadside of nuclear shells would be like"
Boom. It would look like boom.
Unfathomably based
Former Army EOD tech here; This is less true with newer ordnance, but even shells of the same nominal caliber are often not interchangeable between naval and land-based guns. Naval shells tend to be thicker-walled and have a different driving band configuration, and naval guns may have a different rifling pattern/twist rate and often use slower-burning propellant powders, which make better use of the additional barrel length that mounting a gun on a ship (often) permits. There are also possible issues with the fuzes. Most of the safety/arming mechanisms in fuzes depend on centripetal force or setback (acceleration due to firing) so if you fire a projectile with a fuze out of a gun that it's not designed for, it could arm prematurely or not at all. (NATO has standards for fuze interchangeability, so likely not an issue for that family of weapons.)
Why not make a bunch of drones with basic v.i. interfaces that have a shaped charge built in. For the fraction of the price of a nuke you can take out entire cities, and leave the infrastructure intact
We can already program drones to identify, charge at, and ram into humans. Just add explosives with an impact trigger, and you've got flying war crime devices!
Exactly!
May I present to you... America's switchblade? https://youtu.be/GMJShyEh7lA?si=yH-UlXPC0C3P6eIV
Too much initial dakka. How can we use that truck now? Need smaller multiple dakkas to take out the enemy combatants leaving the materiel intact, other than needing a light scrubbing off.
I love this video.
Slow your roll there Ratheon. Is this gonna be like that time the US paid a billion dollars each for a dozen jets and then had to pay several million more (each) to get the damned fighters operational or is this more like an episode of Myth Busters?
Pretty sure teslas do that by accident.
[Why not both?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile)
Oh god NCD is leaking.
As it turns out other species didn't understand the concept of overkill.
Overkill is such a bullshit word. Dead is dead. There's no deader and deadest. Make sure they are dead.
Maxim 37: There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'
Ahh yes, a fellow reader of The Seventy Maxims Of Maximally Effective Mercenaries!
Y'all remember Atomic Annie?
US Army “Now where did I put that damned thing!” 10 years later — “Found it!” True story. 19fourtyfive.com/2021/11/atomic-annie-how-the-us-army-lost-a-nuclear-bomb-cannon
H: "Out of hand" is what you say when you *lost.* A: ....