Guncotton cartridges, which were tested by Austria in 1860. They could be dropped into a muzzle-loader without a ramrod and fired at 6-7 rounds per minute. Guncotton itself was discovered by accident and found more use in explosives, and needed to be weaved in a certain way to make for suitable presures in a gun barrel.
>>61488717isn't guncotton kinda unstable?
>>61488725There's a reason nobody serious was using it. Hell, there was a good long period before the kinks were worked out of smokeless. It rarely pays to be an early adopter.
Starship my beloved. you were too based for this world
>>61488800gun/launcher was a dumb concept
>>61488810>guided missiles for tanks>wide-bore HE at other timesdoesn't sound too dumb to me
>>61488821the missiles were bad and the gun was bad too. just stick a tow launcher on if you want missiles
>>61488856>the missiles were bad and the gun was bad tooabsolutely. but that's not a conceptual problem - or, you're focused on the wrong concept. It wasn't gun/launcher that was the issue, it was the push for undeveloped caseless ammo and the gunbreech automation system which led to reliability and practicality issues.
>>61488717Is this a reasonable alt-history tech that could've been found in the 16th-18th centuries?
>>61488866that was the big issue yes, but the lackluster guidance system for the missiles was another substantial problem
>>61488869Theoretically. It wouldn't take many explosions before it would mark you out as a dangerous idiot though.
>>61488717Probably the only tech that could've saved them from Bismarck.
>>61488982being a real nation instead of the resentful populations of the various hapsburgs estates was the only thing that could have helped them.
>>61488810every gun is a launcher now though?the only problem was that munitions still weren't advanced enough to be as cost effective as they are now
>>61489002From what I've seen, apart from the usual 1848 stuff that all the Europoors had, there weren't any real ethnic tensions until around 1917.
>>61488717>not linking the videowhy are you gay? https://youtu.be/eB517d1QMDc?>>61488725it could have been stable but if you fuck up in the refining process at all it'll become incredibly unstable, which is what happened. I think something similar happened on a ship with cordite but that could have been also rough handling and lack of cleaning that lead to a fine powder of explosives being spread everywhere on the turret
