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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: AfroWalrus9
Posted by: ZClum
the gun would have the same amount of kick(recoil) as it does here on earth, so a 200Lb. Man would not be pushed back significantly by a 2oz. bullet even tho a 7.62mm slug puts out about 200 pounds of force, the force is divided up between the soldier and the slug (unless firing several rounds at once, then the push adds up, resulting in a "rocket man" effect)
Doesn't Keyes do something like this in Fall of Reach? He and a bunch of ODST's evacuate a ship by propelling themselves through the air with gunfire.Afro, you're right. Although it wasn't Fall of Reach, it was Cole Protocol.
ZClum, you've got this wrong. Because there are no forces to prevent the recoil, firing a weapon causes a drastic effect on a person holding it in space.
Also, Newton's Third Law states that "every action must have an equal and opposite reaction".
This means that the force with which the bullet leaves the barrel is equal to the force that the bullet exerts on the gun itself - recoil.
Recoil on earth is managed by gravity and footing, and being able to brace against the ground and also (to a degree) the air itself.
In space, there is nothing whatsoever to brace against. If a bullet has a momentum of 10kgm/s, then the person is going to be moved backwards by a momentum of 10kgm/s. This is only about 0.125m/s (just over a quarter mile per hour) on an average person, less if wearing any sort of equipment.
Firing at any kind of angle, or at any point above or below the exact centre of mass (or side-to-side from it either) would cause the soldier to go into a tumble upon firing.The recoil would be only slightly more than here on earth. You're right that it would probably send you into a tumble, but the only thing creating more recoil would be a lack of air resistance.
This has been discussed on another forum somewhere I was reading... can't remember which. They stated that a gun seems to violate Newton's third law. A bullet hits a target with significantly more force than is experienced through recoil. The reason is time. The recoil you feel through a gun is only the force of the initial explosion. After that the bullet is constantly accelerating out and away from the gun, so you don't feel that force.
So recoil will be almost the same in space, it's just the environment that will cause a difference.