Rail Guns Space Weapon...

[rittmeister]

The Expanse is naval warfare in space except I can picture some poor space ship tens of thousands miles away get blow away from rounds fire a year earlier because the heavy rounds travel unimpeded through space... Their space ships fire immense amount of rounds in their space fights. Here a thought do you call two spaceships in space, fighting one another a dogfight... like airplanes down on earth...

nonsense - fighters, may be

the worst are trek battles, btw - if you need believable space battles read the above mentioned (and linked to) david weber

 

[5fish]

i kinda like porthos

I think it( the dog) added nothing to the story and you do not take pets in warship or science ships... one more reason why the series failed...

 

[rittmeister]

I think it( the dog) added nothing to the story and you do not take pets in warship or science ships... one more reason why the series failed...

in tng they have spouses and kids on ncc-1701d - methinks porthos was a crewman 3rd class (h.c.) and they should have done more with him

 

[5fish]

in tng they have spouses and kids on ncc-1701d

It was suppose to be a city in space... maybe the start ship would seem less threating with a bunch of civilians on it... hum...

 

[5fish]

methinks porthos was a crewman 3rd class (h.c.) and they should have done more with him

You my be right but you not.... lol

 

[5fish]

battered ship can resume to fight when the crew is properly

True... but the first space battles in orbit will most likely between satellites... Think the the debris fields cause by the satellites, may cause space usable... the debris will be travelling like 25,000 miles/hours around the earth...

 

[5fish]

a battered ship can resume to fight when the crew is properly suited up so it'd be more like the battle of skagerrak than cold war sub on sub warfare

In space I doubt they would go back to look for survivor's... Only rich militaries send in search and rescue for down pilots...

 

[rittmeister]

In space I doubt they would go back to look for survivor's... Only rich militaries send in search and rescue for down pilots...

as space warfare is prohibitively expensive anyway ...

 

[5fish]

Here a report on space weapons...

What is a space weapon, and who has them?

A new report from the Center for Strategic and Intentional Studies tries to classify the six types of space weapons.

www.c4isrnet.com

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The report organizes space-based weapons into six categories, featuring kinetic and non-kinetic versions of Earth-to-space, space-to-space and space-to-Earth systems. Of those, three categories have been proven through testing, deployment or operational use:

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• Earth-to-space kinetic: Physical systems launched from Earth, such as the anti-satellite missile test by India in 2019. Such weapons risk leaving behind fields of space debris, and they could be conventional or, in theory, nuclear warheads. The United States, Russia, China and India have shown such capability, with the U.S. and Russia having performed nuclear tests in space in the 1960s. Russia tested such a capability as recently as April.
• Earth-to-space non-kinetic: Jammers, laser dazzlers or cyberattacks launched from Earth, upward. The effects can vary wildly, but overall the goal is to interfere, temporarily or permanently, with satellite capability. Many nations have this capability, including the U.S., Russia, China and Iran.
• Space-to-space kinetic: Satellites physically intercepting other satellites to disrupt or destroy them, or weapons put specifically in space for this purpose. Debris is once again an issue here, as is the potential for use of a nuclear weapon, which could have fallout on a number of systems. The Soviet Union repeatedly tested co-orbital, kinetic anti-satellite weapons during the Cold War.
• Space-to-space non-kinetic: A satellite is placed into orbit and uses non-kinetic, high-powered microwaves, jammers or some other means to disrupt another space-based system. There are no open-source cases of such a system being used, though Harrison notes it might be hard for outside observers to tell if it happened; France directly accused Russia of performing this kind of action in 2018, in what Paris described as an attempt to intercept military communications.
• Space-to-Earth kinetic: A classic of science fiction, the ability to bombard a terrestrial target from space would give a true upper hand to whatever nation perfected it. Damage can be inflicted using the kinetic energy of the weapon itself (such as dropping a bunch of rods off a satellite and letting them build power during descent), or a warhead could be deployed on a reentry vehicle. The U.S. military has contemplated it in the past, but there are no open-source examples of such a system being tested.
• Space-to-space non-kinetic: A system that could target down, whether through jamming of signals or through targeting spacecraft or ballistic missiles. The U.S. has talked about a desire for space-based laser systems for missile defense, but there are no open-source examples of such a system being used.

 

[5fish]

Rods form God or the project Thor... Tungsten rods... Videos about Thor...

A wiki on Kinetic...

Kinetic bombardment - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This is the first...

Lazy Dog (bomb) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[5fish]

A new launch system being tested... SpinLaunch... save the environment...

SpinLaunch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A video or two...

 

[5fish]

Germans... there is a video... see the bunker...

Nazi developed Particle Beam Weapon & electric gun/cannon

Death-Rays as Life-Savers in the Third Reich by Pedro Waloschek: Today we know that the ‘death rays’ made famous through science fiction literature and cinema were never actually deployed, and certainly not during World War II. The extensive literature on secret weapons provides us with very few...

teslaresearch.jimdofree.com

Today we know that the ‘death rays’ made famous through science fiction literature and cinema were never actually deployed, and certainly not during World War II. The extensive literature on secret weapons provides us with very few mentions of ‘death rays’, and most of these refer to desperate publicity stunts by the German leadership towards the end of the war. However, several proposals were made, which led to the establishment of real research and development projects that aimed (or hoped) to achieve the development of ‘death rays’, or at least to gather some of the knowledge considered indispensable for the realisation of such weaponry. This does not belong to the world of conjecture; there is real evidence of activity, which can be reconstructed thanks to archive documents and witness statements.

 

[5fish]

Here is this on Death Ray... The Germans and the Japanese were trying...

Death ray - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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During World War II, the Germans had at least two projects, and the Japanese one, to create so-called death rays. One German project led by Ernst Schiebold concerned a particle accelerator with a steerable bundle of beryllium rods running through the vertical axis. The other was developed by Dr. Rolf Widerøe and is referred to in his biography. The machine developed by Widerøe was in the Dresden Plasma Physics laboratory in February 1945 when the city was bombed. Widerøe led a team in March 1945 to remove the device from the ruined laboratory and deliver it to General Patton's 3rd Army at Burggrub where it was taken into US custody on 14 April 1945. The Japanese weapon was called Death ray "Ku-Go" which aimed to employ microwaves created in a large magnetron.

Here is the Japanese ray weapon...

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/ku-go-japans-top-secret-weapon.html?chrome=1

Some of these weapons were brought to life, as was the case with the atomic bomb, but some have never seen the light of the day. The Japanese Ku-Go “Death Ray” weapon falls into the latter category.

 

[5fish]

Rail Gun as launcher of space vehicles...

Mass driver - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to accelerate and catapult payloads up to high speeds. Existing and contemplated mass drivers use coils of wire energized by electricity to make electromagnets, though a rotary mass driver has also been proposed.[1] Sequential firing of a row of electromagnets accelerates the payload along a path. After leaving the path, the payload continues to move due to momentum. Although any device used to propel a ballistic payload is technically a mass driver, in this context a mass driver is essentially a coilgun that magnetically accelerates a package consisting of a magnetizable holder containing a payload. Once the payload has been accelerated, the two separate, and the holder is slowed and recycled for another payload.

Mass drivers can be used to propel spacecraft in three different ways: A large, ground-based mass driver could be used to launch spacecraft away from Earth, the Moon, or another body. A small mass driver could be on board a spacecraft, flinging pieces of material into space to propel itself. Another variation would have a massive facility on a moon or asteroid send projectiles to assist a distant craft. Miniaturized mass drivers can also be used as weapons in a similar manner as classic firearms or cannon using chemical combustion. Hybrids between coilguns and railguns such as helical railguns are also possible