RRDI: MMSP-01 MAC (wip)

[Saera Willamina Savan]

Image Credit: Onager MAC :: Halo Reach :: Bungie
Intent: To make RRDI's first ground- or ship-based weapon.
Developent Thread: None
Manufacturer: Ri'ess Regal Drives
Model: Mnenchei Monarchy Skunkworks Platform Magnetic Accelerator Cannon (MMSP-01 MAC)
Affiliation: The Confederacy of Independent States
Modularity: Can be refitted to mount on just about anything of size
Production: Minor Production (apx. 400)
Material: Durasteel, Duranium Coils, Depleted Uranium Rounds, Misc Electronics
Description: The MMSP-01 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon is a heavy Gauss cannon mass driver capable of throwing a solid munition at high rates of speed out of the firing platform. The round's immense speed ensures that a large transfer of energy occurs against the impacted medium, called displacement. The displacement of kinetic energy can cause massive damage to solid targets such as bunkers or ground installations, often leaving small craters behind, while conversely capable of withering away shields chunk by chunk and punching holes through a ships hull, ideally causing a critical event in the core it aimed precisely. Approximately three rounds can deplete the shields of an average Corvette, with rounds capable of exiting hulls of a Standard Frigate.

The firing process uses electromagnetism to fire a ferromagnetic-tungsten slug at high velocity. An extremely large current is put through the first Solenoid (coil of conducting wire). This creates a strong magnetic field which attracts the metal slug. As the slug passes into the solenoid, the solenoid is quickly turned off and the second solenoid, which is further up, is activated, this attracts the now high velocity metal slug just like the first solenoid. This process is repeated along the barrel of the cannon. By the time the slug is fired out the end of the barrel it has accelerated to a speed of approximately 30 kilometers per second.
Classification: Mass Driver
Size: Stationary or Ship-Mounted, 120x210mm Munition, (Counts as 5 Capital Guns)
Status: Military
Length: 26.3 meters
Weight: 126.5 metric tons (w/o ground platform)
Ammunition Type: Depleted Uranium Slugs
Ammunition Capacity: 80x2
Effective Range:

• Space - Theoretical Infinite (beyond acute measurement)
• Ground-Based - Apx. 70% Kinetic Energy @ Coruscant (1G./1s.a.) LaGrange Point

 

[Corey's OOC]

I can see this being awesome and then I am also just seeing the 'what if you miss in space' problem and it makes me laugh. I really like this!