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| May 4, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Sarah | It's important to note that the Gyrojet wasn't inaccurate as a design; there was a manufacturing issue in some runs of the ammunition that caused it to spin off-course. Ammunition without that issue I've seen described as being quite accurate, comparable to standard ammunition. See deathwind.com/cause.htm for the short version. | |
| May 4, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | Schwern | @JohnDallman I agree about ceramics, I've peppered that sentiment around quite a bit. I was thinking ceramics would just be for the nozzle, but it might work for the whole case. A rocket doesn't exert much pressure otherwise, a bottle rocket is solid black powder with a hole drilled through the center and wrapped in cardboard, but I'm drifting out of what I know. And yes, an unstabilized rocket would be inaccurate. That could be dealt with somewhat by a very long barrel. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 23:26 | comment | added | John Dallman | @Schwern: Ceramics can't hold internal pressure. That's tensile strength, where they are very poor. Without spin-stabilisation, a rocket musket will be very inaccurate, far worse than a smoothbore gun, because one the rocket starts to deviate from its intended course, its thrust helps push it further off course. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 22:29 | comment | added | Schwern | @JohnDallman Not necessarily. The ceramics everyone's been mentioning would work here. Anything that can resist the heat of a tiny rocket jet for a fraction of a second will do. Or possibly holes drilled in the propellant itself, like with a model rocket motor. You probably can't make a medieval spin-stabilized Gyrojet, it's just too finicky, but you could make a medieval low-pressure, smooth bore rocket musket out of inferior materials. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 22:21 | comment | added | John Dallman | And the rounds are made out of ... metal. They need to contain the pressure of burning propellant, and restrict it to going out of the small, canted vents, and that means metal. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 21:44 | comment | added | Schwern | @ChuckFulminata Certainly the Gyrojet does, though its simpler if you exclude the spin stabilization, and that was one of its many flaws. OTOH a recoilless rifle in its most basic form, a tube open at both ends, is very simple. | |
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| May 3, 2017 at 20:46 | comment | added | Devon M | This is good, but as mentioned, it involves high levels of precision manufacturing. Plus you run into the issue where the ammo quickly costs more than the gun firing them | |
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kinetic energy is proportional to v^2, not e^v
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| May 2, 2017 at 21:40 | history | edited | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 2, 2017 at 20:55 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 3.0 |