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Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..
Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= <querl@uclink4.berkeley.edu>	Date: 2/16/01 3:53 p.m.
In Response To: Re: To recoil, or not to recoil.. (Mark Levin) : There is NO WAY to remove recoil from a projectile weapon. The laws of action : and reaction guarantee that. A "recoilless" rifle uses some : mechanism (possibly springs or a compressed gas, I don't know) to lengthen : the recoil's time (and reduce its length), but it can never be removed : entirely. Recoil can be transmitted to something other than the person firing, however. The backwards momentum can be handed off to the gaseous products of explosion, as Tursas suggests; or a second projectile (slower and more massive, ideally) can be fired backwards to compensate; or the gun can be temporarily anchored to the ground or a nearby massive object. As an example of the third (assuming that Covenant hovertech exerts forces on all the masses within a very large area), I'd imagine that the Covenant could mount a smaller version of the Banshee's engine on a weapon, to fire backwards and absorb the weapon's recoil. --Silicondream

Message Index

Halo weapons should not support recoil	Nights	2/15/01 5:58 a.m.
To recoil, or not to recoil..	Fernando.	2/15/01 8:17 a.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Xero	2/15/01 10:40 a.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	rosignol	2/15/01 11:00 a.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Nights	2/15/01 2:29 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	rosignol	2/15/01 3:10 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	mattd	2/15/01 4:07 p.m.
It's not uncommon.	Xero	2/15/01 6:59 p.m.
Re: It's not uncommon.	rosignol	2/15/01 7:17 p.m.
Here's a story for you.	Tursas	2/15/01 10:02 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Nights	2/16/01 10:45 a.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Mark Levin	2/15/01 5:52 p.m.
recoilless rifles...	Tursas	2/15/01 9:55 p.m.
point of diminishing returns	TheRoost	2/15/01 11:51 p.m.
Re: point of diminishing returns	SiliconDream =PN=	2/16/01 4:33 p.m.
firearms and physics	rosignol	2/16/01 10:54 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	SiliconDream =PN=	2/16/01 3:53 p.m.
Just to nitpick ;-)	Pfhreak	2/15/01 3:33 p.m.
Just to nitpick some more :-)	Tursas	2/15/01 9:49 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Xero	2/15/01 3:33 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	mattd	2/15/01 4:12 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	rosignol	2/15/01 6:09 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	(USMC)SiLvErB1rD	2/15/01 7:01 p.m.
Theta	rosignol	2/15/01 7:39 p.m.
Re: To recoil, or not to recoil..	Gnocchi	2/19/01 6:11 a.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Razorback	2/15/01 12:05 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Cipher	2/15/01 12:29 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Andrew Nagy	2/15/01 2:59 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Andrew Nagy	2/15/01 2:47 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	rosignol	2/15/01 3:04 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Anaphiel	2/15/01 5:08 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Spytap	2/15/01 5:39 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Nights	2/16/01 10:29 a.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Xero	2/16/01 10:47 a.m.
A way to eliminate recoil	foofoohead	2/15/01 8:35 p.m.
Re: A way to eliminate recoil	Nights	2/16/01 10:33 a.m.
Not no recoil, proper recoil	Jex	2/16/01 12:12 p.m.
Re: Halo weapons should not support recoil	Dead Glory	2/16/01 3:54 p.m.