Re: WWII MGs

Perhaps "heat pipes" might come into use after a few years...

http://www.heatpipe.com/heatpipes.htm

Note that heat pipes are being installed in laptops that don't rely on
gravity to return the liquid to the heat source, instead using cappilary
action.  So a ruggedized, larger version that clamps over a barrel when
it isn't going to be fired on the move might come into use.

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:22, Phillip Atcliffe wrote:
> On 07 Mar 2003 11:53:23 -0500 Flak Magnet 
> <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com> wrote:
> 
> > It makes me wonder why there aren't modern weapons with 
> water-cooling capability for use in static positions... or perhaps 
> there are and I'm showing my Ameri-centrism... <
> 
> While I know considerably less about this matter than I do of, say, 
> Linear B, it occurs to me that it might have something to do with the 
> modern idea that a _static_ position merely invites highly accurate 
> counter-battery fire. Even arty uses shoot-n-scoot tactics these days,

> I believe, and so a water-cooled weapon could require too much in
terms 
> of support to be sufficiently mobile, and so is not considered 
> preferable to less durable, but less demanding alternatives that are 
> easier to move. I guess what is needed is a good water recycling 
> system...
> 
> Phil
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