Future Surface Combatant

WatcherZero · October 19th, 2010, 11:04 AM

However they wont be accurate at ranges over 18km or so without guidance.
Rounds only costs £30,000, cheap as chips in ammunition terms, there will be direct fire ones as well these would be for bombardment.

Velocity isnt an issue, the guidance only kicks in as its slows at range to attack target and being EM the range can be perfectly selected by varying launch velocity.
Electromagnetic effect irrelevant, the electronics inside a metal cylinder are protected by the Faraday cage effect. As to explosives it poses an issue but theirs different explosives with different igniters for which other igniters dont cause ignition, for example explosives that dont ignite from heat or kinetic or electrical energy. Binary chemical explosives may be most suitable in this case.

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October 19th, 2010, 11:04 AM	#11
WatcherZero Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 15,634	However they wont be accurate at ranges over 18km or so without guidance. Rounds only costs £30,000, cheap as chips in ammunition terms, there will be direct fire ones as well these would be for bombardment. Velocity isnt an issue, the guidance only kicks in as its slows at range to attack target and being EM the range can be perfectly selected by varying launch velocity. Electromagnetic effect irrelevant, the electronics inside a metal cylinder are protected by the Faraday cage effect. As to explosives it poses an issue but theirs different explosives with different igniters for which other igniters dont cause ignition, for example explosives that dont ignite from heat or kinetic or electrical energy. Binary chemical explosives may be most suitable in this case.