Sci-Fi guns (Exotic & Futuristic)

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2004-07-01 07:04pm

Started reading Redliners by David Drake yesterday, the weapons he uses gave me the idea for this post.

So, other than lasers, lead bullets and particle beams, what can soldiers use in the future (near and far) for ammunition?
Let's hear your ideas for maihem and destruction!

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-07-01 07:08pm

Not my own ideas:

Ork Shokk Attack Gun (WH40K) : transports a bunch of snotlings (really small orks) into the target.

The Duke Nuke'm 3D Shrink ray.

Black Admiral · Post by **Black Admiral** » 2004-07-01 07:13pm

The Kai Gun (WH40K). It uses hate and malice as ammo.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-07-01 08:50pm

Flechette guns, plasma guns, deathwands

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-07-01 11:57pm

Force Staffs (Fires gouts of concentrated and Lethal magnetic force), various contact poisions and gases

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2004-07-02 12:23am

Railguns, with osmium hyperpenetrating rounds.

The ice gun from Paranoia has always been a personal favorite of mine... the evidence just melts away.

TK guns from Rifts for similar reasons: probably out of place in this forum, but I'm sure something similar could be devised with force fields.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-07-02 12:32am

Plastic slivers. From an aliens book there was a gun that shaved off slivers from a plastic block and shot them really fast.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2004-07-02 12:46am

neoolong wrote:Plastic slivers. From an aliens book there was a gun that shaved off slivers from a plastic block and shot them really fast.

Flechette gun variant.

A high-tech flamethrower could be useful. Low-powered laser to charge air, then a small gout of plasma (the ionization to prevent beam dispersal). Protecting the user from the heat would be the hard part...

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2004-07-02 02:07am

sonic weapons ( guns that use sound to destroy)

Electromagnetic Pulse Weaponry ( can take out electronics and destroy military hardware)

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2004-07-02 02:17am

The powerguns from Deathworld which fired explosive shells at a high rate were cute.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-07-02 02:24am

what did the railgun from Eraser used? Aluminum?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-07-02 03:06am

Photon blasters are used in a story I wrote. They fire bullets containing tiny amount of anti-matter. When they detonate they release very intense light and radiation.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-07-02 03:31am

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2004-07-02 03:56am

Given the usual sci fi, the weapons are either matter, force, wave or occasionally physics altering.....

My perfered weapon would be the cheese cannon, that kills its target by teleporting a trillion tons of cheese on top of it.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-07-02 08:10am

Line Guns, whatever they are, from Iain M Banks' novels. Or a single Lazy Gun.

Prozac the Robert · Post by **Prozac the Robert** » 2004-07-02 08:52am

I thought Lazy Gun! straight after reading SWPIGWANG's comment about cheese as well. I wonder if that was the intent?

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-07-02 09:52am

Air displacement rifles? Microwave guns? Some sort of ninja-star throwing thing?

Maybe instead of making exotic impractical weapons, you could just make them look superficially different? Or modifying on existing concepts. Like anti-personnel pistol bullets with HE enough to tear limbs off, or pasma guns with EMP or with wacky substances which give out a helluva lot of electricity, or a railgun which fires slugs which while in transit meets a chemical reaction which turns it to a semi-plasmatic and highly caustic state. Or low velocity weapons like muskets, but instead of balls of lead, you have balls of high explosives.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2004-07-02 10:47am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Air displacement rifles? Microwave guns? Some sort of ninja-star throwing thing?

Maybe instead of making exotic impractical weapons, you could just make them look superficially different? Or modifying on existing concepts. Like anti-personnel pistol bullets with HE enough to tear limbs off, or pasma guns with EMP or with wacky substances which give out a helluva lot of electricity, or a railgun which fires slugs which while in transit meets a chemical reaction which turns it to a semi-plasmatic and highly caustic state. Or low velocity weapons like muskets, but instead of balls of lead, you have balls of high explosives.

Oddly enough, that ninja star thing reminds me of the Eldar basic rifle from 40K.

Fires monomolecular edged shriukens at a rate of 3000-6000 rounds per minute. Though it requires reloading rather quickly on full auto.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2004-07-02 11:02am

Since lead bullets are prohibited I suggest that the soldier of the future uses an ordinary assault rifle and non-lead bullets, such as Lapua Naturalis (linky, see the hunting ammunition section) or Barnes Solids (linky). Sure they would cost more then common FMJ rounds, but they would still be a lot cheaper then developing a totaly new type of weapon.

The Nomad · Post by **The Nomad** » 2004-07-02 03:20pm

Well, I like the concept of overkill firearms.

By overkill I mean : bullets having their own thrusters, shields to fight PD lasers and interceptors, sensor jamming, molecular manipulators and penaids to get through shields and armor, the ability for each bullet to fire microdrones that can do secondary tasks. Rifles with shitloads of different ammos and firing modes, recoiless exhaust, which provide the initial thrust, have their own sensors to feed the bullets with data, auxiliary sensor jamming and defenses, off-axis fire, semi-sentient AI...

Mhh good.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-07-02 03:55pm

Gun of Command

Built by the Hapans in the SW galaxy, it is a mind control gun that once fired into a person, makes them highly prone to taking your suggestions.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2004-07-02 06:44pm

A gun that fires liquified metal slugs at several km/s, much like HEAT rounds. It only needs a strong firing chamber to withstand the detonation that forms the slug, and a even stronger barrel to prevent wear (a coilgun might solve this problem though, if the slug doesn't touch the barrel).

How about firing supercooled pellets of a substance at c-fractional speeds? Of course, if it's c-fractional, the mere air friction would heat them up enough to vaporization...

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2004-07-04 11:59pm

Bolter

20mm Rapid Fire RPG Launcher.
Something similer to this, all be it a bit less 40k uberwank could be made.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2004-07-05 12:20am

In one of the 'series' i wrote (Blackstar Chronicles) the Terran Hegemony developed recoiless 30mm Battle Rifles that fired fallout-free 'atomics', more precisely micro-nukes, that half-kiloton warheads. They were unguided, but rocket-assisted, with a range basically to the horizon.

Before everyone points out how 'wankish' tht is, yeah i know. But if you had to fight a race of hundred foot giants with metres thick armor and near-kiloton yeild pistols, you'll beg for one. In the context, it's perfectly logical

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2004-07-05 01:06am

Just blast their planet into smoke if one wants to fight such giants. Much easier.