A short guide to military equipment priceing

[The Commonwealth of Rhodesia]

The IMI gun is longer than the first-generation L/44 Rhinemetall gun but shorter than the second-generation L/55.

The process of launching a missile from a gun tube is an interesting one I don't know enough about. The 152mm gun/missile launcher of the M551 Sheridan and M60A2 both used straight grooves in the gun's barrel that the Shillelagh latched in to to prevent it from being spun by the rifling. The LAHAT seems to be something different that can be fired from 105mm and 120mm guns as well as from stand-alone pods and possibly from 105mm recoiless rifles, so it must use some sort of system to keep it from being spun, possibly a driving band.

I have no idea how the Russian 100mm and 125mm gun launched missiles work. As they're dealing with smoothbore guns I assume that they just don't worry about rifling.

[Byzantium]

Anorak foreplay?

[HOE]

They are propelled out with a small charge and i dont remember completely but i think they have a jacket that fall off after they leave the barrel.

[The United Norse Federation.]

People are going to be looking at those prices and say to them selve "did i eat today" those prices really make you veiw life decsion a little better. i wish that wasn't the same at the gas pump in real life. "man i only got four tic-tacs i cant even do it" 

[Kingdom of Jeddah]

I was just basking in NSAfrica's great history, when I noticed Hobbeebia's super weapons page. I decided to click on it and read about Hobbeebia's WMDs. After seeing a few nuclear missiles, I got bored and was about to exit out, when I noticed this: 1 Terra-ton Missile. In case you dont know, a terra-ton is two steps above a megaton. It goes like this:

Kiloton
Megaton
Gigaton
Terraton

That would make Hobbeebia's "Terra missile" the most powerful object to ever be present on planet Earth. Tsar Bomba, the world's most powerful nuclear bomb, was only 50 megatons. Now, I know that a terraton nuclear missile is impossible. But what would something like that cost?

[Warlordia]

But what would something like that cost?

A way too large chunk of the US military budget?

[Aksum]

Like making a teaspoon of dark matter would bankrupt the USA.  It's not that practical anyway.

[Byzantium]

Its not cost effective now, but it will be.

[Pantycellen]

A Terraton missile wouldn't be that useful anyway really, most missiles now rely on many small warheads to cover a large area rather then one big one on the simple grounds it's cheaper and more effective

[Deutschland]

I'd call a Tt-class warhead "comprehensively unfeasible". Pulling numbers out of my ass this is the equivalent of 10,000 full Tsar Bombas.

Assuming there are economies of scale at work here, getting 10Mt per ton of warhead might be feasible. We'll also have to assume we can keep the whole thing together long enough to actually release its energy in a reasonably short timespan (fireball duration would be somewhat long). So we'll be looking at a 100,000 ton warhead.

I suppose we could build an Orion-style delivery vehicle with reasonably modern tech and certainly less advanced tech than you'd need to build the actual bomb.

Back in the main NS board, getting this amount of boom would be reasonable futuretech. Any decent future military could pull it off, probably by using some sort of kinetic impactor. I think Yut strategic missiles had a yield in the 60 Tt range with a slightly reasonable rationale (all we needed was a good hyperspace engine).

But as for doing it in NSAfrica? Nah.

[HOE]

Would be cheaper and more effective to build a spaceship, fly into space, attach thruster and guidance system, then send the whole thing towards earth.

[The United Norse Federation.]

Orbital weapons are a pain in the ass.

[Warlordia]

Orbital weapons are a pain in the ass.

Quite so.

Also, totally not within the realm of this game.



Leave those for Nationstates: Cyberpunk.

[The United Norse Federation.]

Orbital weapons are a pain in the ass.

Quite so.

Also, totally not within the realm of this game.



Leave those for Nationstates: Cyberpunk

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actually, if that was the case then ICBMs wouldn't be allowed either. Lasers not, big ass nuke, yes.

[Deutschland]

Well, yield per ton of mass won't approach H-bombs unless you can get it to a very decent clip. To comment on the War Mod that's prolly beyond your typical cyberpunk milieu, those guys are usually impressed by slow trips to the Belt (which will furnish you with kinetics if you don't mind giving the target months to years of warning).

Just keeping nukes in orbit for a handy bombardment option is probably closest to what we can do, and I really don't see NSAfrica nations producing the f*ckhuge satellites that would be needed to do that.

Would be cheaper and more effective to build a spaceship, fly into space, attach thruster and guidance system, then send the whole thing towards earth.