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Red Zone Europe plays about 35 years into the future. It's a total conversion for Command and Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars, intending to create a relatively Realistic gameplay, combined with several "sci-fi" parts. Be careful about your tanks, one or two ATGM from behind will kill them!
EU Hydroaccelerator cannon
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Accelerates a jet of liquid metal to 5-6% of light speed. Makes stuff explode by barely touching it.
Interesting concept and awesome model!
No offense, but 5-6% of lightspeed is ridiculously fast, and anything accelerated to that speed has enough kinetic energy to easily be considered a weapon of mass destruction. 2.5kg (a little over 5 and a half pounds, easy to meet when using dense metals) accelerated to 5% of lightspeed is 4,493,775,803,746,351 joules of energy, and I'm having trouble converting that to an actual destructive result.
I am aware of that, but this is a game. And almost nothing beats the coolness of a gun that, IRL, with 1 shot could vaporize a city :P
Btw, it fires a 10kg slug which, if I wasn't horribly off, impacts with 270 GigaJoule. But there is another point: The jet of liquid metal is stretched extremely long, the 10kg don't impact all at the same time, a few miligrams impact at a given time.
I did the math.
It would have the destructive capability of 1074.0382 megatonnes of TNT, or the energetic value of 1,248,271,056.5962 kWh - the average home uses 8000 kWh every YEAR. Think about that.
Problem with your concept: it's virtually impossible to create a liquid jet with that speed, at far lower speeds the jet would already break up into small droplets, each with a lot of resistance. Not even starting to mention the effects of crossing Mach 1...
Cool model though :P
It wouldn't stay neither gas, solid or liquid for that matter, at that speed anyway. It'd already have passed into plasma state.
It's just a game and I do not care about physics cause...the speed is OVER 9000!!!! XD
And that is all I wanna know and well awesome model^^
i kinda agree on the fact that it is a game with Mr funnyjunk here although it is interesting idea and concept
Seriously guys? It's a game!!!!!! Enjoy the turret that fires a liquid iron girder :P
Hmm, I thought "hydro" only applied to water and not liquids in general...
Hydro sounds cooler :P
Also Hydro I think is a different word for liquid, but don't quote me, I only know some rudimentary latin :P
Hydro means water. I.E , HYDROelectric power plant
oh and: I wanna be a beta tester!! :D
yur right but it still sounds cool
hydro was a Greek word for liquid.....
physics concept is cool, although your numbers are a bit messed up ;)
models awesome too
sounds like the weapon Sovereign used in ME1. really cool concept. actually plausible, the amount of energy pumped into the solution would create a magnetic field helping contain the stream in a beam like projection, giving an appearance of a laser, and thermal expansion of the air would reduce drag of the stream markedly. but still good model / concept
Damn, you got me :P
The idea is in fact heavily based on the description for how the Thanix and Sov's main gun worked.
i wouldve made it into some kind of guass turret, but i get that u wanted to make a weapon that involves something unexpected like water
It is _NOT_ Water, It's liquid metal.
call it the alloy accelerator...
... or the boron blaster
Or the Hydroaccelerator cannon.