They're useful just not on earth.
USArmy wants to field 100km cannons and 500km missiles
Daniel Ward
Lincoln Ramirez
So what? They look cool.
Jordan Howard
Speak burger.
Why can't our government realize that adding tech to boolits just makes more expensive. Don't fix what ain't broken..
The verne gun seems cheaper and more useful
Tyler Carter
But user, if we don't continue to break things that work perfectly fine, how will Lockheed and GD get their billions in gibs?
Lucas Gutierrez
Spacelaunch isn't about launching things upwards, it's about launching them sideways fast enough. Things going fast enough achieve orbit, everything else falls down.
Think about it, there are rockets and ramjet artillery shells that likely went above the atmosphere long before sputnik, they just didn't count because they didn't achieve orbit.
Brayden Gutierrez
The more you know
Colton Hill
Something tells me fuckhueg magnetic fields would have the potential to interfere with any sensitive electronics or bodies within the payload.
Xavier Green
The bottom left image in the 3rd image is the electromagnetic launching system that will be used on the ford carriers, the top right image was a prototype nasa developed to launch space craft.
Compare the cross section of the two accelerators. It's pretty uncanny.
Lucas Sanders
Which is fine and dandy until Ivan decides to hit the CSG with some Scalar Weaponry and laughs as he deploys MiG-29s from the Kuznetsov to go carrier hunting.
Easton Nelson
Nevermind me, I replied without taking a proper look at the whole picture. I saw the diagram in the upper left of the third image and assumed NASA's plan was to apply intense magnetic forces to the spacecraft itself and not rails underneath the spacecraft.
Nigger what? I assume you meant to reply to someone else, because I didn't say shit about the extreme fragility of carrier groups.