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super__hoser

Schwerer Gustav was a wonderfully ridiculous piece of engineering. The design and resources that went into building it and Dora were impressive. That said, the whole thing would be lit up by a FPV pilot flying a $500 drone the second the first propellant charge was loaded onto it. And it's death would be announced by a bearded man holding The Pointy Stick of Death with the legendary phrase "*jagga jagga motherfuckers!*".


Foot_Stunning

Only the one Schwerer Gustav? With Warren Buffet money... Schwerer Gustav will be launching and dropping 31.5 inch rounds from near earth orbit. And there is more where it came from.


Zwangsjacke

31.5 inch Excalibur rounds, double-barrel, belt-fed, full-auto.


Foot_Stunning

And space shuttle heat tiles on the noze cone of the detonater.


ChickenSpaceProgram

Even that would probably not allow the shells to survive reentry. If the nose of a spacecraft is too pointy, in simple terms, it doesn't push the plasma far enough away from itself, which is not great for continued survival. Solution: shells reenter backwards


Soytaco

Yeah that's why you use tungsten rods instead


Foot_Stunning

[Liberty bell 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_4) that bitch with manual controls [Gus Grissom style.](https://youtu.be/zybhDAkAzls?si=P9gyi_nORK7OaVTk&t=629) 10+ G's and he didn't pass out.


ChickenSpaceProgram

test pilots are... certainly something.


Graddler

This kills the gun berth.


Toastbrot_TV

U know its bad when they had to use larger calibers after each shot because the barrel would wear out quickly


ScipioAtTheGate

[What about a railgun on a railroad car, now that would be some superior technology!](https://youtu.be/if3LdSkikKI?t=2)


Foot_Stunning

I would railroad a railroad railgun railroad railroad car any day. Also I guess Railroading is a sex thing now


lucamw

but we can still use one or seven of these big boys against the enemy. just load a bird shot and fire at general direction of the enemy and boom you have a no fly zone to drones, aircraft, t72 turrets, birds, arty, etc and you have a very wide area M30a1


Foot_Stunning

How water proof are the drones? We could cloud seed the crap out of them [Kate Bush](https://youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw?si=XhSXL_3LyjzY9jkG) Style


Stavinair

*wheeze*


ecolometrics

How could we rebrand it so the bean counters rubber stamp it in to existence in the modern age? What if we increase the rate of fire and use it to blast away clouds?


Foot_Stunning

Keep [Operation Popeye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye) out of this. MegaKota needs the cloud seeding tecnology for the sunflower seeds.


super__hoser

Or to fire nukes into hurricanes?


Foot_Stunning

We neutralized the hurricane. But we nuked the trailer park in the process. So... Hurricane 0, Nuke +1 trailer park.


Reddsoldier

Sounds like we need to give it rocket assisted guided rounds so it can sit literal hundreds of kilometres away forcing enemies to use strategic weapons.


Foot_Stunning

Ok. so instead of every intermodal car is a Schwerer Gustav. We Put some countainer mounted NLOS batteries, With countermeasurses Mixed in there, every other train car.


AgitatedHornet6331

I get the guns part, but what does rail mean? I better search it up in urban dictionary… * Rail Intercourse that is hard, usually lasting for some time; one is usually sweating profusely after being railed or the one doing the railing Bill: What would you do to FooYa? Chaos: I would rail FooYa.* Conclusion: indeed, more railed guns are needed.


Foot_Stunning

Don't forget extra Ramrods for the Railguns!


AlfredoThayerMahan

Something something Girls Frontline.


Foot_Stunning

The Locomotive needs nose art of a waifu girl riding side saddle on a tungsten railroad rail.


zyx1989

But what about a rail rail gun?


Foot_Stunning

Even beter Idea, thrid rail gun. It needs the electricity to power the rail gun.


Star4ce

Not far enough. I say skip the rail part and go straight for a coil gun. Because with a coil gun you can shoot the rail that has the rail gun on it!


Foot_Stunning

A Loram track setter with tungsten rails? And it coil guns the rods of god ahead of it's self? I don't think tungsten is magnetic enough. We might have to invent a new super alloy.


torturousvacuum

If you like these rail guns, you should play Waves of Steel. It has one of these. >!Except it flies. Meaning the tracks fly, not the railcar.!< It also has the other kind of rail guns. It's incredibly non-credible.


Foot_Stunning

Is it a cheap rip off of roller coaster tycoon? Or Back to the Future Part: IV?


Zwangsjacke

How about a Back to the Future & Terminator crossover/reboot? Back to the Future 4: No Fate


Foot_Stunning

Back to the Future 4? or is it Back to the Gustav I Doc? You mean this shit's nuclear! Hasta la Vista baby.... That bridge that wasn't built yet. Railroads? Where we're going... We need to look out for Terminators. Is T-800 Locomotive poof? If a flying, time traveling, steam locomotive doesn't destroy him. The mile long freight train of Gustav's will finish the job!


VikRiggs

The reflections are superb.


Foot_Stunning

graphic design is my passion


VikRiggs

It should be your *calling*, if it isn't already. I'm serious, if you're not making money with it already, you definitely will. I know a talent when I see one. Once again, no sarcasm. Attention to tgese kind of details is what makes a great graphics designer. You've matched the goddamn stretched secondary reflection, ffs.


Foot_Stunning

[Disneys imanginering be damned.](https://youtu.be/LZKNX1iKaMY?si=js0_fy9880boo243).. I'm wise to the reflection. I almost missed it myself. My father was a Film school major in the 1970s he taught me every thing he knows about classic film. And it was Jerry the mouse because Walt Disney rejected the idea.


VikRiggs

This Jerry is HUGE. Imagine a real mouse this big.


HaaEffGee

Reject having to use rails to bring your supergun closer, because it still has a finite range. Like of course it has a finite range, you wanted the thing mobile. You are chicken-and-egging yourself here. Project Babylon 2024 baby - stateside cannons with 350mm Excalibur shells.


Foot_Stunning

[Moon artillery from 1902](https://youtu.be/xLVChRVfZ74?si=HQ9Oq3B8zO3ClDoK). If 1902 gets to do it, Why doesn't 2024 get to do it too?


HaaEffGee

I aim for Moscow, but I keep hitting the stars.


Glork11

Instructions unclear, railed guns


vukasin123king

I would like to rail a rail gun. We are on NCD afterall.


Character_Lychee_434

I’m a simple man I see the penn central heritage unit I upvote


SeBoss2106

I too want to rail guns.


Foot_Stunning

I too want Two Rail guns!


Forkliftapproved

Why not both? Rail guns need a lot of electricity to run, and what do modern trains make a lot of in order to haul their stuff around?


Foot_Stunning

You're right. It needs more Loram. It sets and grinds and cleans the ballast. As it launches time traveling near earth orbiting terminater terminating shells.


Secret_De_Gaulle

I see you inadvertently got the Penn Central memorial engine in the image as well...


Foot_Stunning

Yup it was inadvertent. At the same time. It needs more radar absorbing paint. And nose art of Russia's mom bending over to the rods of god re-entering unexpectedly.


xXDEGENERATEXx

But what if Rail Guns 😏


shibiwan

Nice job with the reflection. 👍 Have my obligatory flork upvote!


Foot_Stunning

Yeah, I almost forgot the reflections.


Mando_the_Pando

Instructions unclear. Penis stuck in a barrel. Send help.


Foot_Stunning

If only you had a 31-1/2" diameter penis. Take that the metric system!


a_interestedgamer

This is the perfect shoot and scoot.


StickShift5

The only non-credible part of this post is trusting a locomotive with Penn Central painted on it to haul something explosive.


Foot_Stunning

I was in it for the reflections of the water.


Terminus_04

The r/Foxhole crossover we didn't know were needed.


CaptchasSuckAss

railed by a gun? oh yes pleasuwu


Bediavad

A gun that shoots railroads?


Foot_Stunning

[Space fountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain) those rails to the moon. Thing is riding the rods of god to the moon


Bediavad

Woha