Mike is taking charge, man.
So, busy weeks ahead, man. More work, more travel, more things to do. But that’s all to the good! And still, comics. Always comics, whenever I can!
This week, by the way, you might want to check out KEZ’s comic What It Takes. Notice anyone you recognize there? Hmmmm!
O yes.
As for me, bed time. Long week ahead! No time for long sentences.
All the best, folks!
Oh, man. I love the noise those things make.
HROOOOO
Oh yeah. What a machine, man.
I like colonel’s facial expression in this one – like he tries to believe this is a good idea, but without much success.
The last one especially says “I’m going to regret this” 😛
Hopefully not 🙂
🙂
He’s definitely in that headspace. I’m glad it comes off right!
You don’t really need two Gatling guns side-by-side like that…do you? *sigh* This is going to be…loud. 🙂
Considering they are meant to shoot down incoming nukes, the REAL question should possibly be … why are there ONLY two Gatling Guns per mount?
Because with gatlings you get a fair amount of spread and round could start knocking into each other. Real world you’d want t’ mount ’em like a hammerhead sharks eyes. Lots of brrrrrrrrt covering more area.
They’re mounted for sustained fire. Each rotary gun fires on a three second alternating burst while the other flushes its barrels with liquid nitrogen. They fire so much and so fast that even with a rotary configuration they could overheat and deform. And to top it off, they fire HIVELOCS, which have hot waste products that require intermittent gas flushing to clear the breech.
look how this guy thought it out
now that’s how you do hard sci-fi, guys!
+1 to actual plausible tech.
This doesn’t make sense. One gun with continuous cooling or a liquid nitrogen shroud would mass less than two whole guns. Besides, even say a 35mm HiveLoc gun won’t be effective against nukes: effective range is only slightly better than blast radius. Guns are only good versus the conventional stuff. Leave the nukes to lasers and interceptor missiles. The best reason for twin vulcans would be conventional cluster munitions that “pop” at medium/long range. As to why so many turrets are mounted so close together…
Well, I’ll try to do better next time. 😉
No, no. Rule of cool! And they definitely work versus tactical missiles.
I must admit I have been confused as of late why a Gatling, which eats of ammo like nobody’s business gets doubled in the movies and on things that aren’t towing a trailor full of ammo behind them. The faster the cyclic rate, the more they use. Two would take up so much. Better have some accuracy in them. LASER guiding computers to aim the gun and calculate azmuth etc as our world uses the “R2-D2” style AA23 ‘whizzer’ anti missile/air craft cannon. Better slow down on the rate of fire, make the process too complex (cooling) and one failure will be catastrophic. But it is dangerous enough using radioactive ammunition that contaminates their storage and weapons. Still, rule of cool can prevail easily. We have the leisure time to analyze it here. I am fine with it.
I got a brrrrrrrrt for you and a brrrrrrrrt for you and sugar don’t think I don’t have a brrrrrrrrt. I love giving.
I found myself wondering momentarily why the Colonel would’ve had reconnected the AI that ostensibly started this whole mess. (I know Mike is an A+ dude and a real mensch, but I have the inside scoop.) but I guess he realized 2 things.
1. They’re incoming NUKES, so everyone’s probably dead anyway if they hit.
2. The reason Mike originally went bananas—at least the reason most apparent to witnesses of the situation—was to save the life of the woman talking to him on the phone right now. Current most reasonable course of action to save said woman’s life? Shoot down the nukes. Thus, Mike should be occupied with fairly safe activities for the immediate future.
Nothing makes cheese whiz like a CWIZ…
Do you know what our possibly crazy giant death robot needs? More machine guns. That’ll solve the problem every time.
With the lack of A-10s, this comic needed more BRRRRRT!
Hello, My Name is: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
I enjoy what I’ve seen so far (this was linked to from a thread on Bolos). Just for the record – the Soviets produced a a singe and twin water cooled 30mm gatling naval point defense system (AK-630), though the twin version had them mounted one above the other. The Soviets/Russians also concluded they didn’t really need the double mount. The ammo comments are right on target. The range of the Soviet system is 4,000 meters and would be more than enough to protect a properly hardened cybernetic tank, and that was without depleted uranium perpetrators and at a lower velocity than the GAU-8 (A-10) let alone a larger 35mm round, which could easily double that. A tactical nuke 10,000 meters away is still going to be a mite bit rough on the people around the target.
Also, if the nuclear warhead is hit before it detonates, this isn’t like HE warheads with a contact fuse. Putting a hyper-velocity depleted uranium penetrator through a nuclear warhead is going to pretty much ruin the device. You cannot “armor” it effectively against that kind of defensive fire, so they would have to deliberately pre-detonate it. It is going to mess up the targeting if you have any missiles following it, and in a tactical situation pre-detonating nukes can become decidedly unpleasant for you own troops deployed near the target. 😀
Reference the “radioactive ammo” mentioned by one poster, most people misunderstand the issue with depleted uranium ammo – the “depleted” is because they’ve actually reduced the amount of radioactive isotopes by 40% for making fission warheads, and this is the leftovers. The problem is that the properly forged depleted uranium alloy used in penetrators essentially self-resharpens as it penetrates armor and also ignites (i.e. akin to white phosphorus) due to the amount of thermal energy produced and the combustibility of uranium. So you have oxidized heavy metal vapor being deposited into a superfine dust, and people (including kids) trying to find salvage on the battlefield can breathe that crap. Depleted uranium penetrators are plenty safe on the firing end of things, just not on the receiving end. 🙂
Anybody trying to make a good graphic novel on a cybernetic tank is cool.