I know this isn't the right board for it, but I honestly have no other ideas of how to do it, so please forgive me, and please forgive me killing a thread for that, but it's important to me. More than a decade ago, back in the skype era, I've met a dude here (or rather on the /d/ IRC that was running at the time) who went by the nickname of Esrever. He was a good friend, both to discuss /d/ shit, but we also talked a lot about military stuff, naval engineering, perspective weapons (he had a fetish for naval railguns and kinetics in general, and believed they were vastly superior to anything rocket-powered). I called him Assreaver once as a joke (because this is how his nickname read to me once) and I know he used it for a bit here and there. When discord arrived and I switched over, we lost contact, and I miss the guy. I wonder how he's doing. If you know him, know about him, or you are him, please contact me at secunduspublius@gmail.com. Sorry, again, for the kinda off-board thread. This is the only place that really connects us (hopefully) anymore. Pic is a sketch I drew a little while ago to keep it at least a bit board-relevant.
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>>11421747I am sorry anon, for I do not think that you will be able to find him. I have begun to forgot old Internet friends I have lost contact with, and I have lost hope in reconnecting with those whom I remember.
>>11421848It is a hail mary but I get it. Sometimes people stick with you, it is unlikely you will ever forget him. I think dude is totally wrong about railguns being the future of naval warfare. He may or may not be imagining building a 21st century version of the Yamato which despite being the coolest form naval warfare can take is the kind of obsolete the now possibly obsolete fleet carrier replaced. The future is just missiles ontop of missiles. A modern version of the 20th century Battle of Tsushima would involve the fancy American carriers getting deleted by a strategic scale missile salvo. Even in the role envisioned for them a decade ago it was necessitating a major technological breakthrough that would make these things way more economical than missiles, but that hasn't happened and in the modern context of a major standoff between the USN and the PLAN even if you were to make that happen investing all of your money in rocket-powered everything will probably lead to better returns. I hope even if the dude was upset about something with you he takes the bait and shows up to argue about weapons. I'm doing my part. But yeah that sucks man, I will tell you that the hole is never going to go away, no matter how many other people have literal weapons-grade autism.
Well, how about some requests while you're here?
>>11422021>>11421878Requesting futa Yamato shooting cum laser with her dick
>>11421878YeahPretty muchMissiles from further away, or drones with increasingly large ranges & payloads are the way forwards. Drones becoming more advanced is the more likely future, just because with a drone, you can have a missile that shoots missiles, while making those yummy 20G turns that would paste a pilot.The problem with railguns is twofold.First, you need a FUCKHEUG generator, that would be better used literally almost anywhere else than on a ship in the middle of the ocean, doing nothing the 99% of time a ship isn't shooting the railgun.Second, the magnetic coils/channels/however the fuck you want to do it are a high maintenance nightmare. Magnets are usually pretty resilient, because you actually aren't usually asking very much of them. The kinds of forces a railgun would exert on the system would mean frequent maintenance and replacement of parts, or else the thing fucking explodes because your slug deviated a few fractions of a degree in the barrel, hits the side, and now your ship is down a main armament.Now I beg your pardon, but my bf is making those cute morning sounds, and I'm gonna get in there and wake him up with a blowjob.
>>11422254Dick is temporary. Weapons autism is forever. Yeah the unmanned fighters that were recently at the 80th victory day parade in China have the capacity to just be the type of weapon that completely upends warfare. The off the shelf stuff already has in Ukraine, and I can hear Deng Xiaoping laughing from beyond the grave when I see the statistic about China already having something like 95% of current global production of that stuff. There's rising empire shit and then there's just the cartoon numbers that this century keeps fucking having. I still think railguns were intended to solve the problem of lobbing a missile as fire support in some 2010 era US counter insurgency battle. If you can solve basically every single problem you've just described they'd be vastly more efficient from a economic standpoint, but it's the most American thing imaginable to believe "if we solve these like 5 separate major technological hurdles to our wonder weapon working at all then it'll be cool as shit bro."Every new form of weapon is going to be immensely more unreliable too, its just how it works. I can already hear the pain in the technicians voice as these things that are supposed to be cheaper than missiles spend half the time needing to be taken apart and fixed and the other half of the time hoping it doesn't blow up the ship since it really should never once not be in 5 pieces at a machine shop back on shore.>>11422058The Yamato was a big ship with the biggest, girthiest guns. Looking straight at people as she went off. For it to be outclassed by the flatties who just launched aircraft off their washboard of a chest just isn't fair. We all intrinsically know that the chestlet should not have gotten the attention of all those cute post WW2 admirals. Even if it makes complete sense it just isn't fun.
>>11422254>The kinds of forces a railgun would exert on the system would mean frequent maintenance and replacement of parts(NTA)With the forces we're talking about, the damn thing would probably have to be recalibrated after every shot, even if the actual damage/wear was minimal.Kek. By the time they solve that problem, we may have actual working Battlemechs to put 'em on.
>>11421747Probably not gonna happen, but damn the old /d/ IRC brings back memories. Was comfy, but that was what? 10 or 15 years ago? The only names I remember from there were Elzi, Ayano and Anna. Good times. Time flies.
That sucks, OP. I hope you two reconnect.Your friend (and you?) might be interested to know that General Atomics has just announced its intention to restart its US-based railgun project. /k/ is currently having a thread on it. >>>/k/64538240In my opinion, rail guns loading canisters of pellets might see some serious attention given as an anti drone-swarm weapon. Shooting down singular missiles with CWIS is hard enough, but if your enemy can field hundreds of drones, then you need to be able to paint an entire swath of sky rather than single out individual threats. You also need extremely deep magazines, which railguns excel particularly at. The only thing I could think of besides rail-driven ball-bearing flak clouds would be skipping to weaponized radar for directed energy weapon purposes.>>11422346I think the main problems with railguns right now are just the barrel wear. I've yet to see any serious exploration of a concept for self-ejecting rails that are intended to be cheaply replaceable rather than built into the barrel.
>>11421747preem futa and tits, do you do commissions?
Damn, I wasn't expecting to find an attempted reunion on /d/. Don't know shit about military weapons, but I bid you this Mumei I found for good luck, or at least good faps, OP. All the best, and that's some pretty good art. Hopefully Esrever is found.
>>11421747Oh hey you're panzermeido, I love your work.
>>11422392YeahModified funny shotgun cwis is the most likely future for railguns, if they emerge at all, if for no other reason than you don't really need much raw potential stopping power to clear drones, so at least the resilience problem is solved. Maybe. Even then, I have half a mind to suspect the real answer to that problem is either airburst, chaff, or localized emp missiles to knock out drone swarms, or else more specialized fighter drones, not a big expensive power drain that sits there doing nothing until drones are here. And double again, the idea of the giant generator that doesn't do anything most of the time is preposterous to me. MAYBE railguns like this will see limited deployment on fleet support vessels, who actually are using that generator the other 99% of the time for cool shit, or else as static defences attatched to developed bases, but that would be more of an opportunistic armament, not as a primary goal.I WISH railguns had a more promising future, and I have hope for the more distant future, where my Halo boner goes strong, but for the time being, I really can't see much beyond missiles & drones every die until you die of boredom before a shot is fired, unless there's a radical tech shakeup on par with how badly I want my guts shaken up this afternoon.
My fellow gamers I am very happy to see that we are exactly as horny about weapons as we are about dicks. >>11422853Anti-drone weapons are atleast emerging as being mostly ballistic-based so that's technically the same ballpark as a railgun. Technically. It elementally contains similarities, more so than the missile vommer. Don't get me wrong I long for the MAC to be real too. The best weapons are neither cool nor fun and that fucking sucks. There's barely even any dogfights anymore, it's like war is actually hell or something. The Ghost of Kyiv was a very literal ghost that we had to make up to cope with that. I always was more into small arms anyways. I know you've got the bolt actions you need to jerk off just like a dick but its not really the same. Your standard issue cock needs to recharge after getting jerked off just once for example, whereas most bolt guns can take it 5 times or 10 if you're british. They're far more resilient to forced orgasm torture, the brits.
>>11421747Finish In the Shadow of a Giant you fag.
