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Centrifugal weapon could deliver stealth firepower
New Scientist ^
| 5/11/05
| Will Knight
Posted on 05/11/2005 1:07:57 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: MeanWestTexan
This thing should be as accurate as a musket. If it didn't fire so many shots it would be useless.
To: LibWhacker
A variation on a rather ancient theme I guess
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:07:14 PM PDT
by
festus
(The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
To: bobbdobbs
This is incorrect. The orientation of spin-up is arbitrary and unrelated to release direction. Therefore it cannot be a counter-force to explain the lack of (balance of) recoiless momentum. ?
(steely)
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:21:22 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)
To: MD_Willington_1976
A killer pachinko machine? A B-B slingshot...
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:31:37 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(ATTN, ACLU & NAACP: There's no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
To: LibWhacker
treb·u·chet
A medieval catapult for hurling heavy stones.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:37:12 PM PDT
by
clyde asbury
(Everything's gonna be all right because you're the lucky one.)
To: festus
A variation on a rather ancient theme I guess Exactly! And (despite all the high-schgool physicists' bloviating about it) the same recoil -- none.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:42:37 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
(ATTN, ACLU & NAACP: There's no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
To: freebilly
damn I wish I had said that.
To: LibWhacker
This is a vehicle mounted weapon.
To: Doctor Stochastic
I suppose these could be scored like a golf ball. Of course, the Magus effect still affects accuracy.Check it out! 
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:59:26 PM PDT
by
Squeako
(ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: festus
Lol, that's a good point. The ancients were not so dumb as we often suppose!
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To: brooklin
Exactly! If you can put 100 inexpensive projectiles on the target -- and hit it with probability 0.99 -- CHEAPER than I can with one "smart" bomb, who comes out ahead in the game?
You do!
This can be an advancement in modern warfare, even if it's primitive in conception!
To: bobbdobbs
I guess I don't understand the construction of this device. I'm under the impression that the balls themselves are beign whirled in some kind of large disc or cylinder. There may be an imbalance in that rotating mass when one of the balls is released, but that isn't the same as recoil.
However, my vision of the device may not be accurate either.
To: IronJack
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posted on
05/11/2005 9:07:30 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: LibWhacker
I don't understand the "stealth" part. I worked in the stealth aircraft business for almost 12 years. This makes no sense to me in that regard.
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05/11/2005 9:35:14 PM PDT
by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: LibWhacker
Two words ... "Paint ball."
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posted on
05/11/2005 9:37:04 PM PDT
by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: bobbdobbs
Since that flywheel mass is still connected to the rest of the device, the whole device is dragged in the opposite direction, and that is the recoil. Maybe what I'm seeing as the rotational imbalance is what others are referring to as "recoil."
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