F-302's projectile cannon armament

[ckwongau]

F-302's most powerful weapon are the modified Earth air-to-air missiles .But they can only carry so much missile payload , in the battle of Antractica, they run out of missile quickly ,and they could not return to Prometheus for reload in the middle of the battle.

But F-302s are also apparently armed with a pair of projectile cannons (though of an unspecified caliber and type), seen in the Stargate Atlantis Season Two episode "The Intruder".

many situation in Pegasus ,when a F-302 has to go up again a hundred of Wraith Dart.like S3 "No man land"

The projectile cannon must be powerful , an extremely high rate of fire and and the projectile ammo must last a long time .

What kind of projectile cannon is use on a 302?

Are they similar to railguns ? or replace with the Earth's plasma base energy weapon Dr Lee and Sam use in episode S10 "Bounty"

more similar to the traditional simple ordinary Earth fighter's Cannon armament?but in sapce there is no air for pneumatically driven cannon arment ,or air to cool the gun.

[monkey_man132]

I think they could be some sort of high caliber gun. I think those would work in space. I don't think its a rail gun.

Who knows .

[ascendedancient42]

It can't be a standard weapon, however, as bullets require oxygen to function.

Either the weapon has an Oxygen tank, or the bullets have an oxidizer already mixed into their propellant.

[Gen. Nuke]

Prometheus at the beginning use also standar CIWS guns used by the Navy...

It is possible that the gun on F-302 was a modified Mauser BK-27 cannon... it coul'd be a Vulcan cannon because there was a pair of gun fired from the F-302..Vulcan has more than 3 times the rof of the 27mm.

[jds1982]

It can't be a standard weapon, however, as bullets require oxygen to function.

Either the weapon has an Oxygen tank, or the bullets have an oxidizer already mixed into their propellant.

Yeah the bullets have oxidizer mixed in, as far as I know all bullets do, so it could very easily be a standard weapon.

[ascendedancient42]

Yeah the bullets have oxidizer mixed in, as far as I know all bullets do, so it could very easily be a standard weapon.

Thank you. I didn't know that.

[morrismike]

Gunpowder is basically nitroglycerine impregnated cellulose and contains it's own oxygen for combustion.

[Gen. Nuke]

Gunpowder is basically nitroglycerine impregnated cellulose and contains it's own oxygen for combustion.

That's why the Navy Seal's can shoot underwater...

[2ndgenerationalteran]

in the siege II they introduced the stationary rail guns. They said it was made for the promethius, but it looks like it could be fitted into the F-302s as well, maybe with a little modifications. The difference in color could be explained by the friction heating the air around the projectile, if i remember right oxygen burns purple explaining the purple color it had when they were protecting the city. Space doesnt have air so it's color could be completely different. The new colonel said the standard mag holds 10,000 shots i think, so the fighter mounted mags could probably hold more.

[fugiman]

I am pretty sure they are rail guns but I could be wrong

[Gen. Nuke]

I am pretty sure they are rail guns but I could be wrong

It could'nt be railguns because the projectile are much smaller than a railgun...

and the barrel of the railgun is a lot bigger to fit to the 302 and also the magazine.

[2ndgenerationalteran]

the real bulky part of the rail gun in the siege was the chair the opperator sat on to fire the gun, the barrel is long but it still seems small enough to fit into the wing of the F-302. and the projectile for the rail gun isnt large, its very small rather, if memory serves.

[Exiled Master]

I am pretty sure they are rail guns but I could be wrong

Railguns would be a massive drain on a 302's power plant. Chemically propelled projectiles, on the other hand, don't have the same electrical demands (even if they were electrically fired, as is the case with Metal Storm)

[kvasir 2.0]

A rail gun is very big, like 2/3 the size of an F-302, and they appear to have two such cannons, so it could be a scalled down version of the rail gun but not the same as the ones on Atlantis, or the 304s

[Gen. Nuke]

Thejectile of the railguns is faster about 2 times that of the chemical propelled bullets.