Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20160210190355/@comment-12161342-20160211195211

@Harbinger, here are my rebuttals:

1: I know all about the issue of recoil, which is why the fighter that incorporates this weapon will have conventional propulsion in addition to the usual CMT. Dual propulsion should help negate the recoil, though the aircraft's frame will need to be ridiculously strong. Carbon nanotubes might help here, at least with strength to weight ratios.

2: Yes, the ammunition is bigger than a GAU-8. But RP tank armor is also thicker than in reality, which is WHY the ammunition size will be ridiculously large for an aircraft. Ammunition stowage will be an issue for me to design around, possibly via burst limiters or through unconventional fuselage shapes. Additionally, this aircraft is already going to need to be considerably larger than an A-10 just to incorporate the dual propulsion needed to counter the recoil, so that actually works out quite nicely.

3: You've forgotten that the GAU-8's ammunition is long because it is fired from a conventional gun, and therefore must carry its own propellant. A railgun round, however, does NOT need to have any length devoted to propellant, and therefore 100% of the round's length is fired as a projectile. So while my ammunition will be longer than a 30mm GAU-8 round, it wont scale proportionally. This should mean that I could get away with perhaps a 200mm long projectile, which isnt THAT much longer than a GAU-8 round.