Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20160210190355/@comment-26482266-20160211014111

There are several issues though.

It's a railgun, but it still means that it is effected by the conservation of momentum, meaning that there will be knockback to the weapon; the GAU-8 on the A-10 suffered from this. That is from a 30mm gatling gun, while a 100mm...

(To put this in perspective, this would have nearly 3 TIMES the thrust of a gatling gun. For reference, if you put two GAU-8's into a two-engined jet fighter, the guns will win and you would be going BACKWARDS.)

The biggest problem is going to be ammunition. These aren't 30mm guns, they are 100mm kinetic rods made out of tungsten. Not only would one of these rods be theoretically larger than a 30mm DU bullet (due to length), but it would also mean that the ammunition would be EXTREMELY heavy.

Remember, 100mm is close to tank-caliber, meaning that if the aircraft is sized like an A-10, it practically has no chance of carrying more than a few hundred tungsten rods. Firing for more than a second is practically impossible with the size of the ammunition (along with the issue of how to get the rods chambered to fire in the first place)