Just like here on Earth, you have a large assortment of weapons to deal with different target sets - an infantry team can carry an M-3 "Carl Gustave" to use against bunkers and lighly armoured vehicles which their m-4 carabines won't affect, but the platoon also has machine guns for suppressive fire, a Javelin ATGM to use against tanks, hand grenades for close quarter battle and so on.Ĭertain consideratons will apply for any sort of weapon (outside of handguns and personal defense weapons): Your question is very broad, since it really does not specify what these weapons are to be used for. If you see anything I missed or did wrong, let me know. Or get close to an enemy and use it so the can't see any more.Īnother thing I thought of was railguns/coilguns, but that would use a lot of power and might have the same problem as the projectile launchers where they push the ship backwards a little bit. It wouldn't be very effective against the projectile launchers, but could at least stall the lasers while the ship gets out of the way. I think it would probably be a sort of sand launcher placed all along the ship. The third weapon I have in mind is a sort of shield against lasers or a visual interference device. Somebody please verify this or correct me. My theory is, however, that in space, since there is no atmosphere, lasers could travel farther than normal and still be effective against thin armor.
However, throwing anything out of a spacecraft make sit go the other way, however small, so you need to counter that with another piece of metal, or use fuel or something, which in the long run isn't all that good if you cant recharge or whatever very often.Īnother weapon I think might work is lasers, but I have NO IDEA how they would work in space, so don't quote me. With my limited knowledge of space physics, I think the first weapons would probably be projectile launchers that just throw a piece of metal into space with springs or gas cartridges.
What would be the first weapons to be put on a spacecraft? Due to physics and complicated sciency stuff I don't understand, you can't exactly strap an AK-47 to a rocket and expect it to work. I'm trying to write a mostly realistic space story, and kind of hit a wall when it came to weaponry, so here's the question:
0 kommentar(er)
