chunkblaster

I know, thats a problem I suffer from now XD but i have enough to keep me from completely deorbiting as long as I dont leave the gun running on accident lol

I havn't got the reloading mechanism fully working yet, but I imagine it haveing a small drone that will attach to the I Beam that caps off the rounds on the end (it can separate thanks to docking ports), undock from the ship and pull it away a bit, then another drone brings in and docks the rounds, undocks, and then the magazine is slid back into place and docked back up. Then your ready to fire again! EDIT: it may be even more effective to just redesign the receiver a bit, and ship up whole magazines and dock them up that way, skipping a step. I will explore this in the Mk2 version.

Ahoy there fellow KSP peoples! It's been a while since I've managed to get a finished enough project worth posting, but I've finally got something up in orbit worth sharing. I give you, the Balder Mk1 Frigate! The hull itself is mediocre at best, an OK amount of fuel, not the best visuals from the frontal bridge, forgot to add RCS, the escape pods have a hard time leaving the ship and can't re-enter atmosphere, but- oh, why yes, that's a Railgun at the front of the ship! Meet the Mjolnir Mk1 Railgun. It's a 4 shot weapon with a Muzzle Velocity of ~150m/s. Not super amazing, but I didn't want to go overkill on my first operational version of it. I also designed it so it can be reloaded in space (always a win) I have tested it against other craft, and it's great fun to blow stuff up with it. The railgun is very reliable and the rounds are sufficient to destroy at least part of another ship, sending the debris flying in all directions. Its not a railgun in the truest sense of a magnetic accelerated weapon (Stock KSP doesn't support that as of yet) but it works off of the same principles. The idea of the thing came from the old mass relays or "kerbal cannons" people used to build. I simply said "hey, if 1 booster makes the object fly away at this speed, what happens when it's accelerated by multiple boosters?" the concept definitely works when Applied correctly. I'm also working on a new lifter for craft like this, based off the one I designed for the Baldr: This one is pretty rough and inefficient for what I usually can do, but I rushed it together at 2 in the morning last night. It is however very reliable and capable of the task (you will have to use the Baldr's own engines to finalize your orbit though) now, how to operate the railgun: 1) press 2 to turn off main engines. 2) put throttle to max 3) decouple the first round from the rest of the stack, and wait for it to drift to the center of the barrel 4) press 1 to fire the railgun. Remember to quickly press 1 again to toggle off the railgun. 5) press 2 again to activate your engines when your ready to move again oh, and 3 toggles solar panels Here's the Download: http://www.4shared.com/file/7R1rTbrL/Baldr_Mk1.html And with the Lifter: http://www.4shared.com/file/OUKIJn1I/Baldr_Mk1_W_Lifter.html

This thing is awesome! I love the P-51, one of my most favorite fighters of all time. Unfortunately, I had to use a dang Russian proxy just to watch the vid, and was very dissapointed to learn SHOWTUNES of all things led to this video being blocked in the US. Its too ironic that I had to use a Russian proxy to bypass such a communist act. =(