Super Gun

Date: Tue, 07 Nov 95 11:28:17 -0500
From: lewis@chara.gsu.edu
Subject: Super Gun
 
450mm Super Gun
The perfect weapon for your friendly neighborhood TED.  The Super Gun
is designed as a terror weapon.  The general idea is to aim it 
the enemy country, or rebellious province, and just fire away.  
Since there probably aren't any foward observers, it is fairly unaccurate,
but it will hit somewhere. You don't know where it will land, but neither
does the enemy.  

TL: 6
Ammo: 1 x 450mm-6 RAP
Bore Size: 45 cm
Length: 45m
Muzzle Energy: 700 MJ
Weight: 84.5 tonnes       Carriage Weight: 350 tonnes
Loading Assistance Weight: 8.4 tonnes 
Total Weight 442.5 tonnes
Range: 134 KM
Reload Time: 630 turns (52.5 minutes)
Crew: 45 
Price: MCr 2.48
Notes: Indirect Firing Sights.  Fire Direction Centers
were not installed, because at TL-6 the range the weapon
far outstrips the range of the centers.

All of the below artilery shells are Rocket Assisted
Projectiles.  The weight of the projectile, RAP, and 
propellant is 13.5 tonnes

450mm Shells
Type    Damage          Pen Val      Price (MCr)      
 HE      C:253 B:159      61C           .125       
Chem     C:3   B:253      Nil           .05       
RDM      C:0   B:1013     Nil           .50


This is the biggest gun allowed under the rules for CPR guns,
I tried to fit 5th and higher order polynomials to the given 
data, but it wasn't a very good fit.  If anyone knows of a
better way to extrpolate the data, I liked to hear it.

Lewis Roberts