- DreadKlaw68
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Posted by: PLUT0NIUM 235
your bothered about that? and not the fact that a 80+ kiloton weapon did absolutely nothing to the ground or surrounding environment? think about it, the mass driver that six uses to take out the CCS is tiny, the rounds can only be a few kilograms at best, the rounds fired by frigates are 600,000 kilograms (600 metric tons). to be honest the physics of halo are pretty messed up, mainly due to lack of attention to detail i might add. the grafton would outright vapourise that spire and put a sizable hole in the ground, level a decent area around the blast, probably damage itself, definately kill noble team, all from a single MAC round...!
edit: also the logic above is pretty whack at best as well, you do know that frigate mass is almost certainly a million + tons right? not to mention the MAC is mounted down the spine of the ship, the engines would counter-act any recoil, not to mention coilguns aren't really big in the recoil department since they don't use a chemical explosive to fire the projectile...?
Learn some physics and get your facts straight before challenging my logic.
Newton's 3rd Law of Motion
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"
This is the exact reason that a HEAVY MAC cannot be installed onto a frigate, due to the fact that the friction and forward momentum would not be enough to counteract the opposite acceleration generated to launch a kinetic slug at such high velocities.
"The firing process uses electromagnetism to fire a ferromagnetic-tungsten slug at high velocity. An extremely large amount of current is put through the first solenoid (coil of conducting wire) which creates a strong magnetic field which attracts the metal slug. As the slug passes into the solenoid, the solenoid is quickly turned off and the second solenoid, which is further up, turns on, which attracts the now high velocity metal slug just like the first solenoid, and the process is carried on. By the time the slug is fired out the end of the barrel it has been accelerated to a speed of approximately 30 kilometers per second for a ship-based MAC and around 12,000 kilometers per second for a "Super" MAC. For ODP, a pair of thrusters on the bottom side of the station fire for a couple of seconds to counteract the acceleration imparted to the station. It normally takes five seconds to recharge the capacitors as well as load the slug, which is why boarding craft are usually deployed to take the stations out.
UNSC Frigates, like the Grafton, use Light MAC guns due to the fact that it is the only gun that their forward acceleration (which is why the ship was MOVING when it fired at the spire) can compensate for.
Halo isn't broken, kids. Nice try.