Nations at War - Closing Time!

[blazerblock2]

Yes I thought that was kind of crazy too, I'll talk to SWAT about it.

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[Mikoyan]

K lol.

I mean that's cool and all but an artillery gun that can fire a round from Dallas to Beijing..?

[blazerblock2]

Like I said, it seems rather ridiculous to me as well.  I'm checking now.

[Jairo]

the round would have to go suborbital

[Mikoyan]

Rebel forces push almost 600 miles towards mainland Belsnia. Multiple regiments of fascist forces are closing in on the bulk of the rebel army. Halfway in their trek, they discover and successfully raid a government vehicle depot, mostly consisting of Ural-4320s. This discovery greatly boosts the logistics of the freedom fighters. T-55s make up a bulk of the armored force.

Many Siberian Oblasts pledge their allegiance to Nasanov.

Some T-55s roll through a rather large Siberian town. They are greeted with hospitality.

[Decepticon]

Soldiers in one of the airports closest to Belsnia loading up into planes, ready to fight the Belsnian resistance on the call.

[Plethora]

Project Longbow is now in prototype stages, and test firing begins.  The longbow is able to fire an estimated seven thousand miles with 80% accuracy,using GPS guided fin stabilized shells.

Just my throwing stuff in, but I don't think that that sort of thing is likely to exist in any kind of prototype phase by 2015.  Unless it can be proven otherwise, or that this is a valid combination of existing technology with valid numbers.

[SWAT One]

Well not necessarily.  The tech is there, and the money is there because no super new projects are being funded.  We're perfecting an art, so to say.  Cutting edge now is just making the most out of what you have.

The range for the Longbow is calculated at around 3500 miles, with 95% accuracy, but 10% of normal damage.  There's a weird curve associated with these due to gravity and air resistance at varied altitudes.

[blazerblock2]

Just my throwing stuff in, but I don't think that that sort of thing is likely to exist in any kind of prototype phase by 2015.  Unless it can be proven otherwise, or that this is a valid combination of existing technology with valid numbers.

The thing is, this is a combination of existing technologies, but the combination doesn't exist, if that makes sense.

[Plethora]

The sources I've found show a maximum range of 250 miles for railguns.  Sources say 100 miles or more to 250 miles, with most saying 220.

2015 tech limit remember.  I'm not saying that 250 miles is an absolute cap, but I am saying that railguns cannot feasibly have the range of ICBMs.

[morningstar]

Plexia repostitions TBMs in the Hudson Bay. 

With a seemingly lessened threat of war, DEFCON goes back down. 

[blazerblock2]

2015 tech limit remember.  I'm not saying that 250 miles is an absolute cap, but I am saying that railguns cannot feasibly have the range of ICBMs.

Does 400 miles sound more reasonable?  That's a range I originally was aiming for.

[SWAT One]

Longbow has a bore of 9 inches, remember.  This means a shell with diameter of 7-8 inches, and the shell has to be about half a meter long.  This would also mean that the mass is at least 10x as much as a standard shell, and hence WAAAYYY more momentum.  The shells also come with GPS guidance systems and quick-action retractable fins, so it can correct its path and stay airborne longer.  Also, we made the gun proportionally longer and therefore there's more electromagnetic acceleration.  If I were to make a guess on how far the range would be for a kinetic shell, it would be around 2300 miles in which case it has to be fired through a thinner part of the atmosphere and glide there for a while.

[Mikoyan]

That's way to valuable of an asset to field lol

Plus there is no way you'd be able to efficiently produce that. There's a reason railguns weren't in mass production.

EDIT: Artillery. ARTILLERY firing from Dallas to Juneau. No.

[SWAT One]

Okay 1300 miles.  See the reason it wasn't mass-produced is because money goes into new stuff when the timeline is moving, but now that we're frozen, the money is being put into things like this.  Also longbow is a special unit.  Not mass-produced.