d_sel1 wrote:Shadowman, a bunch of rednecks could make a higher calibur gun, it just about limiting the recoil
. Of course, I am going with speculative fiction. However, you can improve most Halo guns by making just by miniturizing JDAM technology. It would stink in a first person shooter, but heck people in 2050's might end up with "smart bullets."
The problem with Smart Bullets is that bullets move
way too damn fast to be able to properly recalculate the flight path at any range where you'd actually use a bullet.
d_sel1 wrote:Also, you could probably miniturize most "anti-meteoroid" technology that a spaceship needs, and voila you have a nice supply of plasma weapons, phasers, and other future weapons.
Okay, first off, miniaturizing anti-meteor technology first requires that technology to
exist, and it doesn't.
Second, most ships are equipped with MAC guns, big ol' mass accelerators. And they make anything Starfleet is equipped with look like a damn joke. The basic ship-mounted versions fire a 600 ton projectile at 30km/s, and, on average, hit like a 67 kilton warhead, three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima. The Orbital Defense "Super" MACs fire a 3000 ton projectile at
12000km/s. Who needs lasers when you have giant coilguns that hit with enough force to destroy an entire country?
d_sel1 wrote:No army in the 2500's will use bullets if there is better, more effective, reasonally priced alternative.
Once again, can I borrow your time machine? You're taking elements of something that doesn't exist and using it to claim how primitive something
else that doesn't exist is.
You can't possibly know these things.