What will be the official "U.S. Space Force" gun?

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am very excited about this. Finally, us Air Force guys have a shot at a branch of service we can make fun of...:rofl:

I have a friend who is a 20 year air force member stationed at "Seymour johnson". There is no way I'd even try to make fun of anyone else if I were stationed at a place with such a name. If stationed there....I'd hold my tongue to the space rangers or whatever they go by. Lol
 
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I have a friend who is a 20 year air force member stationed at "Seymour johnson". There is no way I'd even try to make fun of anyone else if I were stationed at a place with such a name. If stationed there....I'd hold my tongue to the space rangers or whatever they go by. Lol

I wish I could double like that one. :rofl:
 
How much noise will firing the gun make?

In the vacuum of space orbit?

In the thin atmosphere of Mars?

What effect will the shock wave create by firing a gun on Mars? Could it harm anything living on the planet? Could it alert aliens that live on the planet and cause them to believe we are hostile invaders? (Actually a reasonable assumption based on our treatment of Native Americans).
 
Bullet trajectory should be nice and flat in a vacuum regardless of what they're armed with. Someone fact check me here...in a vacuum there no means to transmit the shock wave of sound so no need for a suppressor ever?
The trajectory is governed mostly by the gravity. Velocity will remain very close to the muzzle velocity, but there will be drop depending on the nearest mass.

And there will be a shock wave. The gas exiting the barrel will expand creating a pressure wave, positive on one side and near zero on the "ambient" side. It will dissipate very quickly.
 
On vacuum welding, it happens mostly where one metal is an allooy of the other, where the surfaces are finely finished, and in bare contact. A simple oxide coating, or simple knurling will tend to prevent cold vacuum welding.

Now, combustion gasses in microgravity could be an issue, as the fluids are going to try an contract to their smallest surface area sphere, and potentially dissolve into component pats. Particulate matter as a result of combustion is likely to float into places where it is not wanted. Murphy is a female dog that way.
 
Guns can be fired underwater. Plenty of demos. Glocks can be had with specific firing pins for such. IIRC, 17s were used in Australia for sharks. Bang sticks fire shotgun shells. The oxygen is part of the chemistry of the powders.

That's the funny thing. I'm a scuba diver and I forgot about those, partly because I mostly dive in fresh water.
 
Velocity will remain very close to the muzzle velocity, but there will be drop depending on the nearest mass.
Velocity will increase depending on the nearest mass due to gravity.

Inside atmosphere, bullet slows down from muzzle velocity (horizontal velocity) due to friction with atmosphere but velocity towards Earth (vertical bullet drop) increases.
 
Velocity will increase depending on the nearest mass due to gravity.

Inside atmosphere, bullet slows down from muzzle velocity (horizontal velocity) due to friction with atmosphere but velocity towards Earth (vertical bullet drop) increases.
Shoot straight up it will slow down, same with any trajectory with a positive vertical component.
Not if you are in orbit.

Assuming you fire the gun straight away from the center of Earth, the obit velocity and the additional velocity of bullet may be enough to escape Earth's gravity which then may put the bullet in a larger elliptical orbit around the Sun - https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/what-would-happen-to-a-bullet-fired-in-space/
 
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My guess is the space force will not carry weapons, and depend on the other branches for local security or security contractors. I can’t see the space force being forward deployed anywhere. Office workers mostly with computers I would imagine.

I think we are a few years off from light sabers and phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range, or any range. Lasers and rockets to shoot down satellites aren’t exactly personally carried weapons, if they even exist.
 
My guess is the space force will not carry weapons, and depend on the other branches for local security or security contractors. I can’t see the space force being forward deployed anywhere. Office workers mostly with computers I would imagine.
I think we are a few years off from light sabers and phased plasma rifles in the 40 watt range, or any range. Lasers and rockets to shoot down satellites aren’t exactly personally carried weapons, if they even exist.

The U.S. has shot down satellites in space from land based weapons. So has Russia, China and India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-satellite_weapon

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-p...with-lasers-to-shoot-down-missiles-its-insane

But right now no government really wants to start a war with the U.S., openly anyway, in space or on the earth. Proxy wars maybe. But not in space yet.
 
I didn't think this was about a gun used in actual outer space. Rather, a futuristic gun that was used in a space station.

Hopefully it won't be those poor, beautiful Browning 2000's that were hacked in Outland. img1.jpg 600px-OutlandHitmanshotgun6.JPG.jpg
 
Hmmm. Hadnt really considered a shotgun. Not a bad choice though since you only need to punch a pinhole and range would be multiplied. Definitely want a comped model. Maybe an 835 ulti-mag or a KSG with a cutts on it. Plenty of those have been sawed off to give them.
 
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