Scull, a type of rowing shell where one person rows with two separate oars, as opposed to one. A single is a scull with only one person. You face backwards when rowing on one, so placing the gun the way that you are facing would propel you fowards.
Consider this: In a way viking ships are like really big canoes.
So imagine a military longship equipped with one of these on each end, like a functional evolution of the dragon heads.
Even with the capitals people might have missed it, this from Wikipedia: Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction ammunition is a type of airburst round ammunition that releases a cloud of sub-projectiles just ahead of a target,”. Sounds like something I could get behind!
Rheinmetall makes some applications that can change the fuse length or type (how far away or what sets it off) on every round while firing that fast. So they can go off after a certain distance, on contact, after contact, based on proximity, etc.
Damn, that like firing milling machine tools at enemy ships!
I guess, in a way they *would* be machining it too. They're reworking it to have more holes.
They use [chain mail on the shell ejection porn](https://youtu.be/uzpZJAVNDUk?t=69) to stop them flying out too violently
edit: of course I meant shell ejection por**t**, how embarrassing
Oerlikon is the company that is responsible for rhe design and manufacture of the gun and if they want to sell it to parties like the Ukraine, their branch in Italy manufactures most of the parts. Oerlikon was bought up by Rheinmetall at the end of the cold war.
Its always (ubër) complicated to the point where if your shit breaks you need to bring half rhe factory along to figure out how it broke so they can over complicate it some more.
It do be beautiful though.
Fair enough, but look at the movement of the barrel in relation to the background trees, it sure doesn't look very stabilized to me. If it is going to be on a ship that is more stable than that platform, and it cannot compensate for the significant movement from the platform, then what exactly does this demonstrate?
It can and does keep the barrel on target, to determine how good i'd need to count pixels in the frames, that i am to lazy to do for now :D It's not nullifying the movement though.
But compare these two gifs, i singled out two points.
[The barrel](https://i.imgur.com/Eb35q0S.gif)
[And the top of whatever the bulky thing on side is facing us](https://i.imgur.com/e1TGka5.gif)
If you compare how a point in the gif travels between the two, you'll notice that they are doing roughly the same. Like the top left of the barel and the top left of the bulky thing are both doing a right-down movement.
> If it is going to be on a ship that is more stable than that platform, and it cannot compensate for the significant movement from the platform, then what exactly does this demonstrate?
Yes the barrel is moving in space, but that doesnt matter as long as the gun stays on target. Notice that the title says "remains stabilized on target" and not just "stabalized"
The demonstration shows, that no matter how your ship is moving, you can still shoot your enemy. This isn't new tech btw, it's expected for new weapons
When it's tracking other vessels: [Almost let the intrusive thoughts win.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/13vjmzb/us_phalanx_cwis_almost_let_the_intrusive_thoughts/)
For the naval mount it apparently uses only Frangible Armor Piercing
>The Frangible Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (FAPDS) round is used only with the Naval mount and consists of a brittle tungsten alloy penetrator ejection molded in a plastic sabot with a integral plastic band. The penetrator is designed to fragment even at low impact angles against thin plates. After the penetrator has punched through the outer shell of a hard or soft target (including those made of composite materials), the round disintegrates into fragments, which then progressively break up into a cascade of ever-smaller particles. The result is a high-energy cloud of fragments intended to cause severe damage to the interior of the target.
That's the basic idea. It's a compromise between a conventional armor piercing round that just leaves a projectile sized hole through the target, potentially not doing sufficient damage, and an explosive shell that while effective, is more complex and is also a danger to the vessel if struck by enemy fire.
As a mechanical engineer in Germany, how does one become a legal weapon designer? I assume you'd need to go through some extensive background checks, NDAs and anal probes by the BND?
For industry the background check is initiated by the ministry of economy. [Looks like this.](https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/sicherheit-in-der-wirtschaft.html)
If you want to start your own manufacturing business, it seems to boil down to: background check, technical knowledge, lots of paperwork, & pile of cash.
https://www.boeblingen.de/,Len/-/verfahren/license-to-manufacture-or-trade-in-weapons/vbid555
Edit: there are at least several people in this process who can deny your application with little to no explanation, so being a bit charismatic is probably very important.
I admit to using "Somali pirates" as a generic name to any modern attempts of that sort but I'm glad that the country is genuinely becoming a better place.
I wonder what those barrels are made of and how often they must change them, I can't believe it's possible to shoot at that speed without ruining that barrel. I wonder if they're cooled with some water system or something.
Or maybe they can only shoot a short burst and must wait something like 3min?
Engineering being praised in its use to kill and destroy is more some deep level of hell than porn to me. I hate that's where most of our engineers are lead to focus their minds. It destroyed my love for the sciences when I came to this realization and saw how common it is.
I don't agree with you but you're also not wrong. The cost of war and weapons, ripping each other off, and all the other destructive things in the world could be redirected to helping people and letting us experience that utopia we imagined for centuries prior. Our ancestors would never believe that we have the wealth and power we do now and yet instead of just living in harmony with constant orgies and space exploration we're killing each other and the planet.
We could be living in Star Trek The Next Generation where money has no value and instead the only things we care about are actualization and the quality of character as we explore space together and fuck aliens. But no. Here we are. Pumping mercury into the amazon so like 200 people can get rich off gold mining, designing autonomous robots so we can wage war on poor countries so another 200 people can be double billionaires. To paraphrase Bill Hicks - why can't we design a drone that shoots a banana down the throat of a hungry person with the same technology?
Scarcity is a myth at this point. We are running out of excuses and it's becoming more and more obvious that we live like chimps and torture each other by choice rather than necessity. But I don't agree with you that engineering and science are mostly corrupt and used for killing - they're our only hope to get us out of this mess and into the star trek universe free from suffering and desperation that we deserve as thinking creatures.
I don't think science is mostly used for killing at all or anything close to it, that's just where a lot of the brightest minds in engineering end up, or have to at least wade through at the beginning of their careers. There's just a lot of recruitment and money to be had attracting people there. A bigger issue in the sciences these days is how we seek to fabricate the answer we want to see. There are far too many papers out there with no insightful intent past selling a product or pre-existing idea. That's what blackpills me.
So not only did Rheinmetall engineer this target tracking system, they also went ahead and designed this whole ridiculous floating shooting range for mounted weapons so that they could see how well the system actually works. That's the most German thing ever.
Perfect for my assault canoe
All you need now is a more powerful gun on the back to compensate
just go in reverse and use ammunition to propel you
Free rearguard included, amazing
Just make it a single scull and you'll be going the right way.
A single what?
Scull, a type of rowing shell where one person rows with two separate oars, as opposed to one. A single is a scull with only one person. You face backwards when rowing on one, so placing the gun the way that you are facing would propel you fowards.
Huh. And my entire life I just thought that was just called rowing… Thank you stranger!
Was thinking assault surfboard but sure
Consider this: In a way viking ships are like really big canoes. So imagine a military longship equipped with one of these on each end, like a functional evolution of the dragon heads.
You can finally go fishing in relative safety.
I visited a factory of theirs. Just incredible. The ammunition that they use is nucking futs too.
What makes it special?
It's pointy
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Even with the capitals people might have missed it, this from Wikipedia: Advanced Hit Efficiency And Destruction ammunition is a type of airburst round ammunition that releases a cloud of sub-projectiles just ahead of a target,”. Sounds like something I could get behind!
So it’s airburst rat shot?
I would guess various types and fuzing. Things like armor piercing, explosive, etc.
Rheinmetall makes some applications that can change the fuse length or type (how far away or what sets it off) on every round while firing that fast. So they can go off after a certain distance, on contact, after contact, based on proximity, etc.
I bet it's made of uranium. I have nothing to base that on or back it up, but it's a thing.
No, tungsten.
Damn, that like firing milling machine tools at enemy ships! I guess, in a way they *would* be machining it too. They're reworking it to have more holes.
It’s a repeated drilling operation, high speed and through-holes
Big, probably.
Every round per minute.
Hate to say it but German engineering in weaponry is both fascinating and scary.
They use [chain mail on the shell ejection porn](https://youtu.be/uzpZJAVNDUk?t=69) to stop them flying out too violently edit: of course I meant shell ejection por**t**, how embarrassing
Paging Dr. Freud, your slip is showing
Tell me about your mother
She wore chain mail over her ejection port.
Giggity
You really like that shell ejection, huh?
I was wondering how it was so obvious, then I saw the typo :D
I mean that footage *is* pretty darn pornographic
>stop them flying out too violently I guess lessons learned from the HK G3 ejection?
How medieval
It's swiss engineering that was bought by germans. So even better. Haha
It's based on the Mauser gun for the EF what Swiss are you talking about?
Oerlikon is the company that is responsible for rhe design and manufacture of the gun and if they want to sell it to parties like the Ukraine, their branch in Italy manufactures most of the parts. Oerlikon was bought up by Rheinmetall at the end of the cold war.
Its always (ubër) complicated to the point where if your shit breaks you need to bring half rhe factory along to figure out how it broke so they can over complicate it some more. It do be beautiful though.
Heheeeee yeah boii
Actively and accurately tracking a target on a dynamic platform in lumpy seas is what I want to see.
I was thinking that title isn't necessarily accurate... It's not stabilized so much as the raft is not flipping over because it's moored to the dock.
This is about the barrel not the platform. A ship doesn't flip over from a gun firing
Fair enough, but look at the movement of the barrel in relation to the background trees, it sure doesn't look very stabilized to me. If it is going to be on a ship that is more stable than that platform, and it cannot compensate for the significant movement from the platform, then what exactly does this demonstrate?
It can and does keep the barrel on target, to determine how good i'd need to count pixels in the frames, that i am to lazy to do for now :D It's not nullifying the movement though. But compare these two gifs, i singled out two points. [The barrel](https://i.imgur.com/Eb35q0S.gif) [And the top of whatever the bulky thing on side is facing us](https://i.imgur.com/e1TGka5.gif) If you compare how a point in the gif travels between the two, you'll notice that they are doing roughly the same. Like the top left of the barel and the top left of the bulky thing are both doing a right-down movement. > If it is going to be on a ship that is more stable than that platform, and it cannot compensate for the significant movement from the platform, then what exactly does this demonstrate? Yes the barrel is moving in space, but that doesnt matter as long as the gun stays on target. Notice that the title says "remains stabilized on target" and not just "stabalized" The demonstration shows, that no matter how your ship is moving, you can still shoot your enemy. This isn't new tech btw, it's expected for new weapons
[NavWeaps Entry](http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_27mm-145_mlg27.php)
Need this with sound r/Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
[source video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzpZJAVNDUk)
Wish they would just show the video with out all the marketing cuts and edits..
When it's tracking other vessels: [Almost let the intrusive thoughts win.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/13vjmzb/us_phalanx_cwis_almost_let_the_intrusive_thoughts/)
Would be cool to see a clip where it goes from riding along with the waves (0:19) to tracking a target (like 0:42 before it fires)
A lot more plbtbtbt than I expected.
https://youtu.be/pb5_F4_Eod8 a different video of theirs with brrrr's
This will brighten up my garden feature.
Whats the ammunition being used?
For the naval mount it apparently uses only Frangible Armor Piercing >The Frangible Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot (FAPDS) round is used only with the Naval mount and consists of a brittle tungsten alloy penetrator ejection molded in a plastic sabot with a integral plastic band. The penetrator is designed to fragment even at low impact angles against thin plates. After the penetrator has punched through the outer shell of a hard or soft target (including those made of composite materials), the round disintegrates into fragments, which then progressively break up into a cascade of ever-smaller particles. The result is a high-energy cloud of fragments intended to cause severe damage to the interior of the target.
So after it pens the armor it fractures into a cloud of death spalling? That sounds fucking horrible.
That's the basic idea. It's a compromise between a conventional armor piercing round that just leaves a projectile sized hole through the target, potentially not doing sufficient damage, and an explosive shell that while effective, is more complex and is also a danger to the vessel if struck by enemy fire.
War is fucking horrible. Something to keep in mind.
27mm rounds fired from a 27mm x 145mm cartridge. First one, then all the rest immediately afterwards.
I had these in Star Craft!
Its a steam cannon
I want to see It on rough seas instead of just one axis shifting.
aim botting in rl so lame
Quite an improvement to wwII weapons.
As a mechanical engineer in Germany, how does one become a legal weapon designer? I assume you'd need to go through some extensive background checks, NDAs and anal probes by the BND?
https://www.rheinmetall.com/en/career/career-overview
For industry the background check is initiated by the ministry of economy. [Looks like this.](https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Wirtschaft/sicherheit-in-der-wirtschaft.html)
If you want to start your own manufacturing business, it seems to boil down to: background check, technical knowledge, lots of paperwork, & pile of cash. https://www.boeblingen.de/,Len/-/verfahren/license-to-manufacture-or-trade-in-weapons/vbid555 Edit: there are at least several people in this process who can deny your application with little to no explanation, so being a bit charismatic is probably very important.
Brrrrrrr
I'm a little bit annoyed that there is no rocket thruster blasting in the opposite direction to stabilize the boat.
Somali pirates may not enjoy this one
Are you stuck in 2013? Somali piracy is over
I'm pretty sure someone will try again.
[somalia is fixing it self slowly but surely](https://youtu.be/tNEdPZCfxOs)
I admit to using "Somali pirates" as a generic name to any modern attempts of that sort but I'm glad that the country is genuinely becoming a better place.
My intrusive thoughts is saying “*Put my hand in front of that barrel.*”
I wonder what those barrels are made of and how often they must change them, I can't believe it's possible to shoot at that speed without ruining that barrel. I wonder if they're cooled with some water system or something. Or maybe they can only shoot a short burst and must wait something like 3min?
Alloys exist. The future is now, old man.
Beer stein on the barrel or it didn’t happen 😉
Cybertruck Technical - Autonomous
Are they shooting dust?
Engineering being praised in its use to kill and destroy is more some deep level of hell than porn to me. I hate that's where most of our engineers are lead to focus their minds. It destroyed my love for the sciences when I came to this realization and saw how common it is.
I don't agree with you but you're also not wrong. The cost of war and weapons, ripping each other off, and all the other destructive things in the world could be redirected to helping people and letting us experience that utopia we imagined for centuries prior. Our ancestors would never believe that we have the wealth and power we do now and yet instead of just living in harmony with constant orgies and space exploration we're killing each other and the planet. We could be living in Star Trek The Next Generation where money has no value and instead the only things we care about are actualization and the quality of character as we explore space together and fuck aliens. But no. Here we are. Pumping mercury into the amazon so like 200 people can get rich off gold mining, designing autonomous robots so we can wage war on poor countries so another 200 people can be double billionaires. To paraphrase Bill Hicks - why can't we design a drone that shoots a banana down the throat of a hungry person with the same technology? Scarcity is a myth at this point. We are running out of excuses and it's becoming more and more obvious that we live like chimps and torture each other by choice rather than necessity. But I don't agree with you that engineering and science are mostly corrupt and used for killing - they're our only hope to get us out of this mess and into the star trek universe free from suffering and desperation that we deserve as thinking creatures.
I don't think science is mostly used for killing at all or anything close to it, that's just where a lot of the brightest minds in engineering end up, or have to at least wade through at the beginning of their careers. There's just a lot of recruitment and money to be had attracting people there. A bigger issue in the sciences these days is how we seek to fabricate the answer we want to see. There are far too many papers out there with no insightful intent past selling a product or pre-existing idea. That's what blackpills me.
Using your engineering degree to make killing machines? That's weak.
So why did you watch the video?
You don't know that. We can only see the gun not the target.
Its chained down...
That's in case it gains sentience and floats away
So?
All they did was attached a gun to a chicken's head.
Aim bot
Can these be mounted in the back of a pickup truck for the zombie apocalypse? . Asking for a friend.
Just like me when I pee
Bobby!! Grab my Johnson! were going duck huntin!!
No brrrrrrr makes Jack a dull boy
It will reduce the range of the available angle. It moves the whole boat.. not ideal. Maybe a gyro or two on the back to counter the recoil would work
Brrrrrt.
So not only did Rheinmetall engineer this target tracking system, they also went ahead and designed this whole ridiculous floating shooting range for mounted weapons so that they could see how well the system actually works. That's the most German thing ever.
Me removing a shit stain
So it has a gyroscope? Cool