Would caseless ammunition be more practical within the context of mecha warfare? It would make way more sense for the sake of weight reduction and avoiding huge casing but I've never seen it used in any show or game
In a space environment it's logical just to avoid flying debris. Ejecting hundreds of thousands of physical rounds at break-neck speed in the near orbit of a colony sounds devastating and dangerous for colonial surfaces if they would hit. Thank God for beam spam.
>>23809197god imagine all the bullet casings in space just therewaiting for someone to hit them
>>23809195Who gives a shit? It is a cartoon.
>>23809212genuinely what the fuck are you doing on /m/?
>>23809197>>23809199I mean there's definitely a debris clean up industry in gundam. Seed had them in astray so UC should have them too.
>>23809224Nope, the UC era were too savage and primitive to care about space debris, it all had to wait until RC before they started cleaning up their act.
>>23809229>>23809224shoal zones have been a thing in Gundam since the 80s databooks, delaz's fleet hid in one where there was a wrecked colony hulljudau and friends made money by salvaging space junk and working with the junkyard before getting involved with the AEUGone of buch concern's earliest companies were cleaning up junk from battlefields, collecting Zeon and Fed MS tech was how they were able to study MS development and eventually build their own crossbone vanguard MS designs from scratchthe anaheim electronics vocational school has banagher's class go out to collect debris as one of their school activities, which explains why he knows how to operate a petite worker MS
>>23809197one of the common problems with caseless firearms is heat dissipation. shell casings actually take a lot of the thermal energy of the round being fired with them when they eject, to the point that the caseless weapons have a history of live rounds "cooking off" in a weapon that was extremely hot. in space where heat does not dissipate like it does in an atmosphere, this can be even more of an issue. alternatively, if debris is your concern modern fighter jets have a captive system for shell casings, the rounds are fed into the vulcan by a belt then another belt fed the empty casing back into the ammo drum to be reloaded.
>>23809195Yes but you need to understand that animators and fans think spent cases being ejected after firing are "cooler" to see in anime. Therefore they are not going away.
