Note: These are only for use when absolutely necessary AND NO OTHER TIME, bar none. War is not the answer and all who are sane hope it will never be needed. However - if, God forbid, it ever is - these are intended to get it over with within the limits of conventional warfare. These are merely ideas from a bored mind. I do not condone warfare in general. In fact, this started with ideas for a fictional, near-future Battlefield series game.
Alright. So yesterday and this morning, I was bored and had Paint open. So I decided to draft up some ideas for stuff that could be used by the military. Actually, not really, since I know nothing about formal weapon design, and these may be impractical, but - by chance - one or a few might actually work. Before you see the drawings, please know that these are not intended to look good, or anything remotely close to good. So here goes.
Fragmentation grenade
Alright. First one: frag grenade by unusual design. This grenade does not use high explosive filler to blow it apart, as with most grenades. Instead, it uses a block of caesium/cesium inside a dissolving shell of sodium chloride, generally known as salt or table salt. When the pin is pulled while the safety lever is depressed and thus exerting strain on the connecting wire, the wire holding up the platform is severed, and the block falls into the water. After the salt dissolves in the water, the cesium and water mix. During this reaction, heat and hydrogen gas are produced. When the hydrogen is heated to above its flash point, it ignites, causing the air to expand. When the air expands, it creates pressure on the outside container until it bursts, at which time the salt water and burning hydrogen spill out and the casing fragments in the same way as a standard M67 frag grenade.
Tank autoloader
Another idea of mine. After hearing about the autoloaders in the Iraqi T-72s in the First Gulf War taking almost 10 seconds to reload, I thought "why?" and drew this up. There are two carousels. One contains APFSDS shells for use against enemy armor, while the other contains HE shells for use against infantry. (Actually, the article I found isn't exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for more of HEDP - High Explosive Dual Purpose.) After the tank fires its cannon (via the firing pin in the center mechanism), first two doors drop the shell casing out of the breech-block and down a chute, to either outside the tank or into a receptacle. Then, the carousel is rotated to the next round by an electric motor, and the round is pushed in. If the other round type is needed, the round can be extracted from the breech and the carousel moved up or down. Depending on the execution and practicality, this could mean much faster autoloaders.
Double Gatling gun
I don't like this idea. All it is is two synchronized four-barreled Gatling guns firing through one hold in their outer container. Basically it has the same effect as an 8-barreled Gatling gun. (Oh, and I forgot to mention...these are electrically powered. Not the crank-fired ones from 110+ years ago.)
Edit: More will come later.
Alright. So yesterday and this morning, I was bored and had Paint open. So I decided to draft up some ideas for stuff that could be used by the military. Actually, not really, since I know nothing about formal weapon design, and these may be impractical, but - by chance - one or a few might actually work. Before you see the drawings, please know that these are not intended to look good, or anything remotely close to good. So here goes.
Fragmentation grenade
Alright. First one: frag grenade by unusual design. This grenade does not use high explosive filler to blow it apart, as with most grenades. Instead, it uses a block of caesium/cesium inside a dissolving shell of sodium chloride, generally known as salt or table salt. When the pin is pulled while the safety lever is depressed and thus exerting strain on the connecting wire, the wire holding up the platform is severed, and the block falls into the water. After the salt dissolves in the water, the cesium and water mix. During this reaction, heat and hydrogen gas are produced. When the hydrogen is heated to above its flash point, it ignites, causing the air to expand. When the air expands, it creates pressure on the outside container until it bursts, at which time the salt water and burning hydrogen spill out and the casing fragments in the same way as a standard M67 frag grenade.
Tank autoloader
Another idea of mine. After hearing about the autoloaders in the Iraqi T-72s in the First Gulf War taking almost 10 seconds to reload, I thought "why?" and drew this up. There are two carousels. One contains APFSDS shells for use against enemy armor, while the other contains HE shells for use against infantry. (Actually, the article I found isn't exactly what I was looking for. I was looking for more of HEDP - High Explosive Dual Purpose.) After the tank fires its cannon (via the firing pin in the center mechanism), first two doors drop the shell casing out of the breech-block and down a chute, to either outside the tank or into a receptacle. Then, the carousel is rotated to the next round by an electric motor, and the round is pushed in. If the other round type is needed, the round can be extracted from the breech and the carousel moved up or down. Depending on the execution and practicality, this could mean much faster autoloaders.
Double Gatling gun
I don't like this idea. All it is is two synchronized four-barreled Gatling guns firing through one hold in their outer container. Basically it has the same effect as an 8-barreled Gatling gun. (Oh, and I forgot to mention...these are electrically powered. Not the crank-fired ones from 110+ years ago.)
Edit: More will come later.
Last edited by k30dxedle (2007-01-06 13:34:54)