Re: [GZG] Acceleration

[Oerjan Ariander <oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Laserlight wrote:

> The list is too quiet and I'm trying my hand at writing, so looking for 
> some informed input here.
> Does anyone here have any comments on what reasonable acceleration limits 
> might be?
> Thinking of using a magnetic or perhaps gravitic accelerator to boost a 
> Full Thrust missile, so the main questions are:
>
> a) would the mag fields involved in throwing the missile be likely to 
> screw up the missile sensors / hardware? If so, can we get around that 
> with some (mild/moderate/major?) modifications to the missile package? Is 
> something likely to melt?

If your missiles were built to be launched from a magnetic or gravitic 
launcher, there shouldn't be any problem. If they were not, you're probably 
better off building new missiles from scratch than trying to modify old 
ones to fit the new launcher.

> b)what kind of physical accelaration can a missile reasonably be expected 
> to stand?

We can manage several hundred g today... tomorrow we should be able to do 
better still.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@xxxxxxxxx

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 What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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