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Gunpowder is self oxidizing when ignited. As long as they used a non-evaporating lubricant on the actual mechanical components like graphite, and included a barrel liquid cooling loop, the M2 would operate totally fine in space.
Now I want to see a space-ready heavy machine gun with a big radiator attached
A closed loop wouldn't work probably. You'd need an open loop, or a shit ton of radiators. I guess potentially it could couple to the ground and sink heat into it, but you'd need to be stationary.
What about barrel cooling? Getting rid of heat is a major challenge in a vacuum.
That's why I say you need to provide a closed liquid coolant loop around the barrel that would ve integrated with your ship's heat management system, to replace the air cooling of the barrel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Browning
space ready since 1933! We really were ahead of our time!
Will the blood of my enemies suffice?
Only if they are cold blooded
A little thick, but good enough.
Sugar is almost as corrosive as salt, so please make sure your enemies are on a sugar- free,salt-free diet, i.e., dying, saving you the trouble.
Way ahead of you there!
radiators work in space, just not as efficiently. fill 'em with ammonia, put more fins on for larger surface area, I'm sure the M2 could be adapted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Control_System
no because without gravity to pull them back down your bullets would just keep going up and up and over whatever you're trying to hit
Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired, they go straight out of the barrel, the barrel is just inclined because of the sight alignment. You just realign the sights, this isn’t a difficult problem.
yeah because of gravity
get rid of all the gravity and they'll go straight up
No.
don't come crying to me when your bullets go up so much they do a full loopdeloop and shoot you in the back of your head because you tried to fire them on the moon where there's no gravity
The moon has gravity.
i know we're on noncredibledefense but please take this seriously
But actually, if you had no gravity acting to change the velocity vector, the bullet would continue in a straight line. If you shot at the horizon it would be like drawing a straight line tangent to a circle. The bullet's not going to end up going in the shooters azimuthal direction, but it sure is going to gain altitude as the curvature of the body peels down way away from the straight line it's flying,
I bet all of them make a loud wooshing noise as they head straight up from the moon to earth.
you seem like an expert in moon warfare
just blow on it