Future Weapons, a Discussion for Rifts

[csbioborg]

Have you seen that history channel epidosde on japns and germany's experimetnal weapons. THey built a microwave beam weapon BUt never got it its range up to being feasible beyond defense. Towards the end of the war there were plans to line the coast of Japan with large microwaves disks to cook the incoming GIs but the bomb took care of that

I'd wonder what a rifts scientist could do with that.

[Library Ogre]

Actually, I would say a Willygun would be similar to the Megaversal Legion's I-beams... the I-Beam basically creates a field where the round is able to accelerate to huge velocities, similar to the vacuum creator of the Willygun.

And when I was in NJROTC, my chief told us about working on the Ariskani in the engine room and cutting boards with steam as an example to new folks.

[glitterboy2098]

'willyguns' sound like EIPP weapons from RIFTs:Austrialia loaded with WI explosive rounds.


there are a few more concepts to look at.

mention was made of microwave weaponry. well, where the japanese failed in the 1940's, the US Marines didn't. the Active Denial System uses a microwave beam to generate pain on any living thing it sweeps across. the army is using it as a 'less than lethal' crowd control option.

a similar application of microwave technology can be found in the ASEA Radar arrays on the F-22 and F-35, as well as many other modern and recently refitted aircraft. these phased radar arrays can be focused into a very narrow beam, which can generate an EMP effect on technological devices it hits. think of it as a very hard to aim EMP gun.

speaking of EMP, the E-bomb is a technology i could see many post-rifts groups taking interest in, especially freedom fighters vs. the CS. while computers and stuff can be hardened against EMP, they cannot be made immune. (just very hard to effect)

in regards to less than lethals, Sticky Foam is a wonderful anti-infantry and especially, anti-robot option. generally this would require a material that rapidly set into a hard substance once exposed ot air. you could gum up the joints of body armor, robots, or the treads and bogies of tanks. plus you could cover sensors and view slits, rendering the occupants blind.

or how about the Leyden ball, electrically charged bullets fired from airguns. good for incapacitating targets.


note, most of these work best against SDC targets, or against unshielded electronics...

[Prince Artemis]

3. 'Water lasers'

And of course, there's the question of what this would do to, say, a Vampire...

I love the water laser idea! That would rock when fighting vampires. However, I don't think the speed/pressure/force of the water affects how much damage it would do to a vamp, I think the volume of water they are exposed to affects how much damage is done to them. I'm too lazy to check the vamp book... I could be wrong, it's been years since I read it. Even so, fighting a vampire with a water laser would be fun!

I don't think he was meaning it so much as a weapon but as a tool. If you watch American Chopper, they use one fairly often.

[GhostKnight]

Wili gun won't work like a rail gun. There is a limit as to how fast the gas expands - something that makes current rifles so hard to increase velocity any faster. A rail gun or gauss rifle is only limited by the speed of electricity instead of expanding gases, so can have a velocity several times or better than gas propelled bullets.

It might be used to propel grenades though.

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[NMI]

Locked due to discussion of willygun and how it would work in Palladium.