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[–] 24 points 2 years ago (18 children)

That's why I say you need to provide a closed liquid coolant loop around the barrel that would ve integrated with your ship's heat management system, to replace the air cooling of the barrel.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning

    The development of the M1921 water-cooled machine gun which led to the M2, meant that the initial M2s were, in fact, water-cooled. These weapons were designated Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, M2, Water-Cooled, Flexible.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    you need to provide a closed liquid coolant

    Will the blood of my enemies suffice?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A little thick, but good enough.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    no because without gravity to pull them back down your bullets would just keep going up and up and over whatever you're trying to hit

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired, they go straight out of the barrel, the barrel is just inclined because of the sight alignment. You just realign the sights, this isn’t a difficult problem.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired

    yeah because of gravity

    get rid of all the gravity and they'll go straight up

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    don't come crying to me when your bullets go up so much they do a full loopdeloop and shoot you in the back of your head because you tried to fire them on the moon where there's no gravity

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    But actually, if you had no gravity acting to change the velocity vector, the bullet would continue in a straight line. If you shot at the horizon it would be like drawing a straight line tangent to a circle. The bullet's not going to end up going in the shooters azimuthal direction, but it sure is going to gain altitude as the curvature of the body peels down way away from the straight line it's flying,

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