Chapter 37: The Enigmatic Gauss Sniper Rifle

The Gauss Sniper Rifle, a super powerful ranged weapon that can be used from beginning to end at Zero, when you take it out and study it carefully, you will find that it is really an indescribable and mysterious weapon.

"The Gauss ion sniper rifle, which fires the bullet in an ion-accelerated radiation, can destroy almost everything with great kinetic energy."

First of all, both the lethal effect and the shape of the bullet show that the Gauss sniper rifle is a kinetic weapon, well, the unavoidable problem of all kinetic weapons is recoil.

As mentioned earlier, kinetic energy weapons follow two laws, conservation of momentum and conservation of kinetic energy, so in the case of carrying the same kinetic energy, the small mass of high-speed warhead can reduce recoil, but can not completely eliminate recoil, so the design of muzzle brake is used to reduce recoil by the action of gunpowder gas.

The Gauss sniper rifle has an effective range of 70,000 meters, and there is also a penetration depth of 2100mm (because it has to penetrate several tanks, the equivalent RHA of the depleted uranium armor anti-kinetic energy bullet of the M1A2 tank is about 800, even if it is 2 and a half here, in fact, it is already meaningless from a physical point of view) The penetration depth, how high the muzzle velocity needs to be to have this kind of power!

M14 automatic rifle muzzle velocity of 850 meters per second with 7.62mm NATO bullet is only the level of penetrating the 10mm steel plate, this recoil is already a little unbearable, the muzzle velocity of the 120mm main gun of modern main battle tanks is basically more than 1700 meters per second, and the penetration depth of kinetic energy projectiles is only 700mm, which means that even if the muzzle velocity of the 7.62mm warhead is increased to the level of the tank main gun, the recoil has increased to 2 times the original, and this level of recoil is simply uncontrollable unless you reach a certain level of weight, but at this time, the armor-piercing ability of rifle bullets may not even be able to penetrate the ceiling of the tank.

In order to achieve the marked effective range and power, it is undoubtedly required to greatly increase the muzzle velocity, followed by a sharp increase in recoil in the order of magnitude, if there is no special recoil suppression system, a shot will not bend the ship's edge, it should directly penetrate the hull and fly out from the other side, and the zero point will also be smashed into meat sauce after the first shot.

In addition, the Gauss sniper rifle claims to shoot bullets in ion-accelerated radiation. What is an ion, as long as the atom loses or gains one or a few electrons so that it reaches the outermost stable structure with 8 or 2 electrons or no electrons, it becomes an ion, dissolve the salt in water and you can get chloride ions and sodium ions, we obviously can't expect to add a spoonful of salt, sprinkle a little water and eject the bullet out, it is plasma that has this ability, and it must be a high-temperature plasma.

High-temperature plasma is essentially an ionized gas, that is, it is similar to a gaseous state, and it is understandable to say that plasma with high-temperature and high-pressure characteristics catapults the warhead. But where does high-temperature plasma come from? Generated by a Gauss Sniper Rifle? Then the Gauss sniper rifle bullet only needs one bullet, what do you want the cartridge case for, what is in the cartridge case? Obviously not for the sake of good looks.

In addition, the famous AK47 fires a 7.62mm bullet with a muzzle velocity of 710 meters per second, which can penetrate 300mm thick soil layers. NASA's multi-stage air-pump gun used to study hypervelocity impacts fired a 5mm warhead that hit a bunker at a speed of 7,000 meters per second and a depth of no more than 1 meter, but the difference in speed between the two was 10 times.

Therefore, if the Gauss sniper rifle wants to achieve a penetration depth of 2100mm, this warhead is not simple.

Therefore, the Gauss sniper rifle bullet includes at least an energy system that can generate plasma that gives the warhead extremely high velocity, and a warhead with some kind of powerful armor-piercing ability working mechanism.

In addition, for a sniper rifle, there are many reasons that can affect its accuracy, including ignition pressure, charge volume, pull-out force, charge temperature, chamber volume, charge state, consistency of propellant combustion, bullet weight, bullet center of mass position, aerodynamic shape of warhead, bullet section density, flight attitude, flight speed, gun mechanism vibration, barrel deformation, barrel temperature, etc.

In addition to the factors of weapons and ammunition, there are also human factors, aiming errors, body vibration, deformation of movements, and even whether the lungs are inflated or not will affect the shooting accuracy at the moment of firing.

At the same time, all this is amplified as the firing range increases. For example, if the error generated at a distance of 50 meters is 1 centimeter, the aiming error at a distance of 100 meters is 2 centimeters, and at a distance of 1000 meters it is 2 meters, what is the effective shooting distance of 70,000 meters for a Gauss sniper rifle?

Also, What is the concept of 70,000 meters? Now as long as you are an earthling, you know that the earth is round, there is such a thing as spherical curvature, the visual range of naval warships in the sea is only more than 20 kilometers, you can see 10 kilometers on the ground with a single sniper rifle, even if it is far away, 70,000 meters, you can still fight cattle across the mountains.

Well, all of the above problems were solved by the designers of the Gauss sniper rifle, and finally we have been presented with the ultimate sniper rifle with superior power, invincible accuracy, moderate size, and acceptable recoil.

But in the end, there is one sentence I have to say, designer Nima, can't you just put a magazine?

I don't know what a tenacious idea and what kind of strange tactical needs to overcome a series of problems such as recoil, firing energy, armor piercing, shooting accuracy and so on to make such a good weapon, but it can only be loaded with one bullet at a time, you are kidding me.

Don't say that the loading steps are complicated, you still have a rate of fire of 7 seconds per shot, you look at the American Haskins rifle, when loading, you must first take the entire bolt out of the receiver, and then paste the bullet on the nose, and then the bolt together with the bullet to push the receiver, which is equivalent to dismantling the gun again for every shot, which is called cumbersome loading.

The speed of 7 seconds is the speed of pulling the bolt, loading a bullet into the chamber, and then locking the step to achieve the reload speed. That is to say, the Gauss sniper rifle with an epoch-making level of science and technology is actually a hand-pulled machine, Nima This is the design level of the British brawl with the Boers in South Africa, that is, when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, it was proved wrong in World War I, what is the dimensional history of designing the Gauss sniper rifle.

Although this is better than the hand-pulled anti-aircraft gun on the iron-blooded prime minister, after all, the sniper rifle does not need to hit the plane (who said that?). It's hard to imagine that this is a high-tech product, and it feels like a bowl of hot Xiang in the middle of the Manchu and Han banquets.

Therefore, in the end, I could only explain all this to Zero Point with malicious intentions towards the designer, and said that the Gauss sniper rifle and bullets are actually a system, and the bullets are more difficult to do than the Gauss sniper rifle.

But then, I still had a consolation prize for Zero, "Although I can't solve the problem of self-production of bullets, I made such a gadget, you see." ”

Because the Gauss sniper rifle is densely packed with circuits and coils inside, it must be a high-temperature plasma excitation device and restraint device, as well as a magical recoil suppression system, so there is no way to change the structure of the gun, but I have an auxiliary reloading system outside the outside, which is actually an electrically driven reciprocating mechanism, which operates the Gauss sniper rifle through the slide rail to open the gun, and then loads, which is regarded as a step forward from the Gauss sniper rifle to the semi-automatic sniper rifle, increasing the rate of fire from one shot every 7 seconds to one shot every 1 second. Speaking of which, it's just an old antique used by the British to modify the British 77 in 1941.

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