Yea this is really good! I really like gauss rifle! I was making a fafnir some time ago (you can check it here http://xwarriorblender.tripod.com/myblendersite/id6.html ) and as you see it is only a wip. 3 week ago I reinstall all my pc because I had viruses and thing like that on it…I putted the model on a disquet but this one had a malfunction and I lost everything… :x If you dont know, A fafnir is equipped with dual Heavy gauss rifle! It is a new mech in Mech4:Mercenaries!
(Hey bl@stzone, will you post some pic of your work on the forum of the general mod? I think the other are waiting for that…)
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the picture is c00l but i dont think a gauss rifle would look like this. gauss rifles are using a series of electro-magnets to accelerate a ferromagnetic substance. first the bullet wouldnt look like a std HE grenade and second the accelerating way of the turret are way to short for being effectiv. the longer the barrel the more exact the rifle will be (like in reality) and also the speed of the bullet could be improved. if the bullet experiences too much force during the acceleration it would be simply crushed. thus the barrel has to be longer.
the bullet would IMO look more like an water drop (for minimizing air resistance) and wouldn’t weigh more than several gramms. 10g with up to 90% lightspeed got enough kinetic energy for punching through EVERY known armor in a single shot
just my opinion
a good example of a battlemech is the hollander that was build around a gauss rifle
or mechs like the 2nd line mech “behemoth” that carries 1 gauss in each arm.
the battletech books say, that gauss rifle bullets look like metal eggs and have to weigh about 125kg each (cause 1 ton of ammo = 8 gauss shots of std inner sphere and clan gauss ammo)
Dittohead: I really like ur weapon there! I haven’t played MechWarrior much (yes, I know it’s said LOL). I really like the metallic textures.
X-WARRIOR: Too bad u lost ur model It was looking really good!
AN][ARES: Technically, you would need more energy than produced on Earth right now to propel one 10 gram metallic bullet to 90% the speed of light. In Einstein’s laws, to put it simply, when an object starts going that fast, the object’s weight increases, thus needing more energy to propel it. Also, if it went through any kind of atmosphere (O2, CO2, anything) it would cause so much resistance that’s it would probably burst into a fireball and melt down… I do agree with u though, if anything was going that fast, nothing would stand a chance.
I was making a fafnir some time ago (you can check it here 
:x If you dont know, A fafnir is equipped with dual Heavy gauss rifle! It is a new mech in Mech4:Mercenaries!
