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Subject:
RE:Bullet weapons in Star Wars
doggtag
7/3/2004 6:30:16 PM
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the Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology DOES explain a projectile weapon or two: there a "guided flechette" rifle, the Tusken Raiders (sandpeople) use a type of magnetic pulse accelerator rifle, as did Zam Wesell with her electromag pulse projectile rifle. I suspect the Kamino dart that Fett terminated Wesell with also had some sort of guidance (projected magnetic field?) for an accurate shot at that range (app 100m?) .
As the Clone Wars animated series (the 5 minute "skits") WAS sacntioned by Lucas Arts, I'll argue that the Republic Gunships DID perform as troop dropships in a few episodes, launching from low-orbit out of the Acclamator ships' holds.
As for the M41A pulse rifles vs AT-STs, my argument being that the Aliens model fired 10mm "standard" light armor piercing explosive bolts. Following typical infantry weapons (like 7.62 and 12.7mm MGs), I would assume there might be a dedicated 10mm anti-armor round, perhaps even a mini-sabot APFSDS type. Still, the standard ammo would be quite capable at removing Storm and even Dark Troopers (and effectively the battle droids as well). I would expect that, considering the explosive effect of the 30mm grenades, the grenade launcher could rely on the shockwave of its exploding rounds against the AT-ST to quite possibly kill the drivers by concussive effect. At least the rounds would most likely destroy the external AT-ST weapons (chin blaster, side concussion missile pods), and a sufficient volley may well knock over a scout walker just by the blast effects. But again, I would be expecting there to be a dedicated armor-defeating grenade in their inventory..
As for walker armor in gerenal, it seems to be more of a ray-proof protection system (as a general rule, the 2 protections for shields and armor are ray-shielding against energy weapons, and particle shielding against physical impacts, albeit smaller caliber impacts like space dust and debris, (as the snowspeeders vs AT-ATs demonstrated, the rebels blasters couldn't crack the hulss of the AT-ATs. But I wonder how different the scene would have been with large caliber projectile guns firing >1mile/sec KE ammunition. It's quite feasible using Star Wars tech to envision a linear mag accelerator capable of achieving an in-atmosphere velocity of several km/sec firing various KE and explosive projectiles.
Suggested debate: which would fare better against Imperial or Trade Federation land-based armor: T-47 Snowspeeder, Republic Gunship, or A-10 Warthog?.
IMHO, the A-10 hands down ( obviously keeping the gun and its 11 underwing hardpoints for Mavericks, Hellfires, and even the kilioton rockets from Gunships; its large size could accomodate an effective starfighter ray-shield system, effective against surface laser fire). Just a thought.... |
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