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davoodoo, on 02 November 2017 - 12:20 PM, said:
What is nonsense is hgr having this immense recoil.
Apparently slug is put inside magnetic field created by rails so majority of energy is spread outwards instead of inside the barrel when its propelled which would mean relatively little recoil for weight of the slug
and its not like hgr slug weights less than 250kg while ac20 shell weighs up to 200kg and doesnt rip off arms despite conventional explosive propellant.
Apparently slug is put inside magnetic field created by rails so majority of energy is spread outwards instead of inside the barrel when its propelled which would mean relatively little recoil for weight of the slug
and its not like hgr slug weights less than 250kg while ac20 shell weighs up to 200kg and doesnt rip off arms despite conventional explosive propellant.
That's not how physics works. The recoil is equal and opposite. In order to push the round forward the rails are receiving a force backwards.
Also, keep in mind that a gauss round travels at significantly higher speed compared to a AC round, and that an AC round doesn't weight its full portion of the 1 ton ammo bin. Putting the fact that AC are depicted as often shooting a volley of rounds, the propellant takes up some of the weight as well. In short there is no way an AC20 round's recoil is any more than a fraction of the recoil of a HGR.
EDIT: as an addendum, the regular gauss round, which weighs have as much it is would in TT, should probably throw a mech when it's fired. Weighing a 15th of a ton is an insane amount of momentum at 2000 m/s. Real like APFSDS penetrators weight only like 1-2 kg and have a simliar speed, but will push 100 ton takes a good bit.
Edited by Snowbluff, 02 November 2017 - 12:51 PM.
