Re: [SG,DS] Power Armour Weapon

If you've got a few centuries of technical development to play with,
it'd be
a lot easier to just say they use some sort of ceramic barrels and skip
the
cooling entirely. Barrel might get a little warm, though...

(real life: the ceramic engine parts used today to not require cooling,
but
are extremely sensitive to thermal and physical shock: in other words,
sudden changes in temperature or being hit).

on 03.3.10 0:15 PM, Ryan Gill at rmgill@mindspring.com scribbleth:
> 
> The thing to remember with water cooling even today is that it's a
> far better medium for transferring heat than air is. It is used on
> larger caliber weapons that have to have a high rate of fire. Several
> naval mounts use them iirc as does the Russian ZSU-23-4 sp AA mount.

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