Four Armed Goddess
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Creation of a line of railguns for ship use for my new tech company
- Image Source: my creation (low poly as it is taken from larger ship file)
- Canon Link: none
- Permissions: none
- Primary Source: none
- Manufacturer: Archangel Manufactorum
- Affiliation: Hanaya Enzar
- Market Status: Closed market
- Model: AM04MLA-PD
- Modularity: Weapon designed to be mounted on either turret or fixed position mounts
- Production: Mass produced
- Material:
- Weapon components
- Magnetic generation systems
- durasteel
- Carbon-nanofilament internal rail coating
- Tungsten Magnetic Projectiles
- Classification: point defence Rail gun
- Size: Large
- Length of each gun 4 metres
- Weight: heavy
- each gun around 3 tons - usually mounted in quad arrangement
- Ammunition Type:
- 40mm diameter Tungsten magnetic projectiles weighing 3.5kg
- Potential for arming with bursting ammunition to provide flak field
- Ammunition Capacity:
- Large magazine capacity
- Effective Range: Personal
- in a vacuum the projectile will continue to travel almost indefinitely and is only limited by tracking and targeting technology which in the case of this gun is dedicated to close protection of ship against fast moving targets
- Rate of fire: Very High
- For a gun of its size the rate of fire is fairly impressive
- Damage Output: High
- High amounts of damage with kinetic impact, shape of the charge allows significant penetration and damage to light vehicles
- Recoil: Average
- Guns specifically designed to be put into variety of housings
- The lighter calibre of these guns compared to heavier ones in the line means the projectiles are more likely to burn up in atmosphere, posing less of a collateral damage risk.
- Can be loaded with two different types of ammo but target systems needs a few minutes to recalibrate fire solutions after switching
- High velocity projectile - time to target is low making leading targets simple
- Little loss of power over distance - low drag in space means they are barely slowed, the weapons are just as effective at maximum range as close range
- Rapid target acquisition systems - able to track fast and close targets to provide excellent point defence
- Relatively low penetration against armoured targets, only of use against small craft
- Targeting systems calibrated to close range of just a few km around the weapon system
- very specific ammunition parameters - when these run out of ammunition they cannot simply be recharged with more tibanna gas. the raw metals need to be refined and machined to the exact specification. This is can often be done on board the largest ships but it time, space and energy intensive.
- Designed to operate in vacuum - whilst these guns can work in atmosphere, the drag of the air slows them dramatically and reduces their effectiveness quickly over distance
These guns accelerate a very heavy solid metal projectile up to extreme speed. The weapon destroys its target with kinetic impact with the sudden transfer release of energy causing large amounts of heat and pressure damage.
