tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post2745851409556595867..comments2024-03-29T02:47:44.652-05:00Comments on Future War Stories: FWS Topics: Artillery Williamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17218428427067689631noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-63946027661931894942021-11-12T05:34:10.597-06:002021-11-12T05:34:10.597-06:00Someone probably already told you this or you alre...Someone probably already told you this or you already learned over the years since you wrote this article but if not, Masers and Lasers are similar but different. Masers are real and were discovered first. Basically they are microwaves that are amplified and concentrated in one spot just as laser are amplified light concentrated to one spot.<br /><br />Anyways, great idea with the mirrors being in space or attached to drones to make laser artillery work, never would have thought of that. I think something similar could be done with plasma artillery with powerful magnets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-56460855538491987152016-10-17T20:52:04.957-05:002016-10-17T20:52:04.957-05:00Honestly, I'm not sure that would qualify as a...Honestly, I'm not sure that would qualify as an artillery unit... Sounds more like a combination of aircraft carrier with suicide drones. Maybe it could technically be missile artillery? Whatever the classification, it's an interesting (and potentially terrifying) weapon.Chase Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05785900072109810445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-25538436384898424662016-10-16T04:47:47.980-05:002016-10-16T04:47:47.980-05:00I love rocket artillery stuff, its like rain of ar...I love rocket artillery stuff, its like rain of arrows but in modern way.<br /><br />Classic Artillery olso nice :D Many thanks to Basilisks i destyoyed Necrons monoliths without sending blindly imperial guardsmen squads in Dawn of war Winter Assault PC game.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10450856493548004392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-63701838361763757012016-10-14T20:55:45.297-05:002016-10-14T20:55:45.297-05:00I forgot one.
Matrix revolutions machine city defe...I forgot one.<br />Matrix revolutions machine city defense machines (I can't find what they're called)<br />Despite the more rediculous parts of the final matrix movie I just loved all the "real world" tech, the mechs, the hover ships, murderous ai "squidies", it's a Scifi post apocalypse wet dream.<br />These ai driven hover ships are seen when neo and trinity are making their push to the machine city "zero one". These hover artillery platforms shoot smaller explosive ai driven self propelled machines. A unique concept that is basically suicide machines magnetically projected from a floating fortress. They are also protected by squidies just in case anything gets close enough. This defense line can destroy any possible incoming human threat. A question remains, why have such overpowered defence artillery when it's not logical to keep them maintained (would a machine be ilogical for that?). My theory is that previous iterations of zion (the human resistance ) was more successful at fighting the machines and possibly got close enough for such a defence system to be emplaced...or they are just remnants of the first machine war when humanity had one final massive conflict with the machines...either way these hover ai artillery are just awesome. Jarom Swensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08356051701090723881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-44855246305190814612016-10-14T20:12:22.836-05:002016-10-14T20:12:22.836-05:00Some examples of Scifi artillery
Warhammer 40k
...Some examples of Scifi artillery <br /><br />Warhammer 40k <br />Tau broadsides------ a mech propelled artillery with great range and options for indirect anti infantry and the long range anti heavy armour (and upgradable for anti air with either weapon option). These battlesuits are also very heavily armoured, but are slow and need time to set up for precise firepower, and can be supported by scouts for better precision. <br />Ork mekgunz------ An oddity of ork warfare. These happen when an ork mechanic makes a reAly heavy and shooty gun, but no ork wants to lug it around, so they give it to their slave race the grots (a match made in heaven since grots are better at aiming, and would rather be far away from the fightinh, so make perfect artillery crewmen). Mek gunz have many options rangeing from indirect infantry shredders to heavy plasma cannons all the way to weaponized force fields that literally burst at the enemy. Of note is that these are towed artillery, they can be hooked up to any ork vehicle and deposited in the back lines where these cowardly grots prefer.<br />The bigmek shock atack gun----so the warp is the realm where most factions in 40k travel (their ftl), but leave it up to orks to use the same tech to bombard their enemies. This devise is often carried into battle by the ork bigmek that makes it. It uses warp tech to shoot snotlings (more pathetic versions of grots) through the warp. The poor snotlings then emerge from the warp Haveing been altered by basically he'll into explosive or plain enraged greenskinz that can cause various forms of horific damage to any unlucky soul on the side where the warp spits the snotling out. Though this tech just seems to prove the crazed manner of ork meks since it will often suck the mek himself into the device rather then the intended ammo.<br /><br />Ender game (mostly what i know from the movie)<br />The molecular disruption device...though could be more classified as a super weapon like the death star.<br /><br />Jarom Swensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08356051701090723881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-55907335032420919392016-10-10T00:32:53.408-05:002016-10-10T00:32:53.408-05:00With the M109 howitzers and the M992 Field Artille...With the M109 howitzers and the M992 Field Artillery Ammunition Supply Vehicles, the crews often uploaded and downloaded the projectiles by hand because it was actually quicker. Four men could load 90 rounds in 10-15 minutes including powder. To set up the conveyor takes 5-10 minutes and on the later models only moves the projectiles from the ground into the vehicle anyway requiring the 2-guys outside to still load them on the conveyor and the guys inside to still load them into the "honeycomb". <br /><br />IF you simply pull up next to the ammo pallets, pop the rounds in through the right side "crew door"...<br /><br />One issue not mentioned in futuristic artillery that use directed energy is the ability to put something solid between the gun and the target. For directed energy, the beam travels in a straight line. A launched projectile travels in an arc. For a beam, anything with the same or higher range than you can theoretically return fire and kill you.<br /><br />For a projectile-based system, you can launch/fire from behind cover blocking--at least--direct line of sight weapons from returning fire immediately. IT also lets you move without being directly observable.<br /><br />Two other aspects of modern artillery I think you missed...<br /><br />First, the point to artillery in modern times is the flexible massing of heavy firepower that the front-line troops don't have to carry around with them. It allows a commander to send in "light" troops and help them do heavy damage and then lets him shift that firepower to help another unit in another place quickly.<br /><br />Second, from a psychological perspective, an artilleryman doesn't face the same personal dilemma (a'la Dave Grossman's psychology of killing) a grunt face to face with an enemy faces. For artillery, especially modern artillery, the trigger (lanyard-)puller never sees the enemy, it's "to whom it may concern"/impersonal, and the artilleryman is part of a team with a rigid procedure reinforcing putting the rounds down range under orders.<br /><br />Most of the time, if any artilleryman does see the enemy, it's through binoculars or the viewfinder of a laser range-finder before calling in fire missions.<br />Carl J. Armstrong Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15930821841508712889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-68838311968941873412016-10-10T00:13:47.024-05:002016-10-10T00:13:47.024-05:00The second concept is called MRSI when it's a ...The second concept is called MRSI when it's a single gun, multiple projectiles, same impact time. When it's more than one gun, it's called--in US terms--a "Time on Target", often described by the unit size conducting it: Battalion Time on Target, Brigade Time on Target, etc.<br /><br />Carl J. Armstrong Jr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15930821841508712889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-59255602715120785832016-10-07T00:40:32.792-05:002016-10-07T00:40:32.792-05:00Love some of the artillery systems in Battletech, ...Love some of the artillery systems in Battletech, got everything from Arrow IV Missle system (Mech/vehicle base guided missile system) a number of long guns like the Sniper and Long Tom, all the way up to orbital bombardment (which usually resulting in war crimes)Steel Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033636526460614949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-43957062448341600362016-10-05T04:15:02.126-05:002016-10-05T04:15:02.126-05:00True, but if they'd delayed a transport by a f...True, but if they'd delayed a transport by a few minutes, the cannon could have taken out the walkers, there bye giving the rebels more time to load the transports, and cripple the orbiting star destroyers. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15463753036970838320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-19686789496521721442016-10-04T08:31:20.367-05:002016-10-04T08:31:20.367-05:00The second concept you mentioned is called MRSI (M...The second concept you mentioned is called MRSI (Multiple Rounds Simultaneous Impact). Finland and Sweden have an automatic double-barreled 120mm mortar system called AMOS that can do this with 14 rounds from a single weapon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-30324310615653007112016-10-04T08:12:22.230-05:002016-10-04T08:12:22.230-05:00The ion cannon wasn't defending the base itsel...The ion cannon wasn't defending the base itself. It was used to disable imperial ships so they can't shoot down or capture escaping rebel ships.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-13998831667731718102016-10-04T02:08:19.148-05:002016-10-04T02:08:19.148-05:00Though I may have to agree with you on the on the ...Though I may have to agree with you on the on the weapon's angle of depression, the shield was preventing a direct attack on the base. This is what made a ground attack necessary. The shield would mean that the ion cannon could have been used against ground targets, without opening up the base to attack from orbit.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15463753036970838320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-17998069577927634582016-10-03T12:52:50.993-05:002016-10-03T12:52:50.993-05:00Great article on an often overlooked component of ...Great article on an often overlooked component of war.<br /><br />A couple of things that I'd like to mention that I didn't see you cover. <br /><br />First is the concept of a "creeping barrage" where the fall of artillery moves forward, across the enemy line, closely followed by assaulting infantry. The enemy gets no respite from artillery until the infantry are on their doorstep. I can only imagine the pucker factor of infantry being pushed to "lean into the barrage" and closely follow artillery (friendly artillery at that)!<br /><br />Second, and I'm not sure of the artillery term, is the concept of firing several salvoes at a target, but staggering the time of flight such that ALL the rounds land simultaneously. So the first salvo has the longest time of flight (i.e. arcs the highest into the air) while subsequent salvos shoot with flatter arcs so they hit sooner. If they pull it off, a battery of 5 guns can hit a target with 15-20 rounds at once (# salvos depends on the maximum time of flight divided by the rate of fire of the artillery). Devastating way to start off an attack!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-46281488816709490272016-10-03T06:37:14.413-05:002016-10-03T06:37:14.413-05:00The ion cannon was too busy covering the evacuatio...The ion cannon was too busy covering the evacuation, and perhaps it's not even possible to angle it low enough to engage ground targets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-28182211019403231372016-10-03T03:26:32.436-05:002016-10-03T03:26:32.436-05:00As one who has spent some time in the foster syste...As one who has spent some time in the foster system, I’d like to thank you for taking that child into your family. The foundation you gave her is one that she will be able to build on. It is also my sincere hope that her mother has got her life straightened out, and that she is ready for motherhood.<br /><br />On an artillery related note; I have always wondered why the rebels on Hoth didn’t use their ion canon against the AT-ATs. <br /> <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15463753036970838320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-29123903224108147252016-10-03T00:03:02.710-05:002016-10-03T00:03:02.710-05:00Last week I would have considered the rail gun the...Last week I would have considered the rail gun the end game in artillery. 'How long before Iran builds electromagnetic accelerator cannons that can lob a hundred ton metal rod at any nation in a suborbital shot?' This morning I hear scientists have worked out how to create antimatter with a laser beam meaning two lasers can form a matter-antimatter reaction pair (positron-electron) directly on the surface of the target. Antimatter artillery.Sean Robert Meaneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-72644465966776237242016-10-02T14:38:33.778-05:002016-10-02T14:38:33.778-05:00Regarding the MAC II : well, the Destroids were de...Regarding the MAC II : well, the Destroids were designed to make the Veritechs look cool. If it's any consolation, the MAC got redeemed with Macross Frontier's VB-6 Koenig Monster. And not because they upgraded it to a Veritech, but because of the sheer carnage this thing causes in one volley.Faraday77https://www.blogger.com/profile/10164616956681726143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-83242414444116620322016-10-02T10:25:47.726-05:002016-10-02T10:25:47.726-05:00Great article and very informative!
As someone wh...Great article and very informative!<br /><br />As someone who were involved in his military time with artillery field training I couldn't leave it without dropped again one of IDF artillerymen's grime jokes: "A paratrooper made a mistake – a paratrooper is dead, artilleryman made a mistake – a paratrooper is dead".<br />Been paratroopers the top of the crop and the artillery the least appreciated corps in the IDF make that joke against the haughty paratroopers as a claim of "we'll have the last laugh".<br /><br />There could be laser arched artillery, well sort of… using spaceborne or airborne mirror could be used to reflect the beams beyond the horizon like arched metal slugs' can. <br /> <br /> I wouldn't say there are no other examples in ST universe to ground based artillery – in Enterprise "crossing the desert" episode Archer and Tucker location is been bombarded by some sort of artillery, the artillery never seen even when attacked by the Starfleet shuttle so no info about if it self-propelled or towed but it clearly fire some good old shells, a rare example in a universe plagued with DEW.<br /><br />Yoel <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-726484495782035142.post-87177016190925611132016-10-01T16:50:33.112-05:002016-10-01T16:50:33.112-05:00Another excellent article, the wait was worth it. ...Another excellent article, the wait was worth it. I cannot really relate to what happened in your personal life but you have my sympathy. Losing someone like that is terrible. We wish you and your family well and that things go well for everyone in the end.Nicholas Mewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02823238401109164712noreply@blogger.com