Stock guns

[EXTREME_GAMER_4]

I’ve tried and failed again, and again at making stock weapons and I was wondering if one of my fellow KSP players could help or recommend ideas.

[Kernel Kraken]

The structural fuselage makes a line barrel. Pit a rhino on max thrust behind it and make a projectile, Punch the rhino, and let it fly!

[fourfa]

 

[EXTREME_GAMER_4]

On 2/6/2018 at 11:20 PM, TheMadKraken2297 said:

The structural fuselage makes a line barrel. Pit a rhino on max thrust behind it and make a projectile, Punch the rhino, and let it fly!

Thanks, that would make a great canon, but I was thinking more along the lines of machine guns on airplanes.

[EXTREME_GAMER_4]

20 hours ago, fourfa said:

 

Thanks, but like I told someone else, I was thinking more along the lines of guns on planes.But I will try this.

[Kernel Kraken]

Oh, ok then! For that I use the radial decoupler attached to sepeartrons. Separatrons make awesome ammo.

[Fearless Son]

39 minutes ago, TheMadKraken2297 said:

Oh, ok then! For that I use the radial decoupler attached to sepeartrons. Separatrons make awesome ammo.

Seperatrons on radial decouplers are more like launchable rockets (specifically two seperatrons mirrored on either side of a radial decoupler) that you can stack on top of one another to make things like air-to-surface rocket pods on ground-attack craft.  Not really possible to make a friable machine gun in stock, but you can make things that look like they could be a machine gun in stock.  I have seen the M-Beam 200 I-Beam Pocket Edition used as a frame for weapons, with things like the Communotron 16 as a barrel.

[Matuchkin]

So you want fake machineguns? Because if you want to make actual stock, belt-fed 50 cals or something, that is impossible.

[Vanamonde]

This is going to end up being craft sharing, and so the thread has been moved to the craft sharing subforum. 

[EXTREME_GAMER_4]

2 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

So you want fake machineguns? Because if you want to make actual stock, belt-fed 50 cals or something, that is impossible.

I’m not an actual newbie but IT IS?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Matuchkin]

Was that supposed to be sarcastic? Obviously it is. There are mods that give you the possibility of using weapons:

Look at the parts in your unmodded save. Do you see any belts? Firing mechanisms? Parts that are twelve millimeters in diameter? Is your Communotron 16 bored through like a barrel? No, it's a perfectly average antenna. You can't make actual guns in unmodded KSP, so you have to stick with rocket propelled projectiles, or go the modding way.

[Servo]

2 hours ago, Matuchkin said:

So you want fake machineguns? Because if you want to make actual stock, belt-fed 50 cals or something, that is impossible.

Don't say that too loudly, @klond might hear you.

And it is possible to create a number of machine-gun like turrets. Most rely on dropping small parts (this one uses thermometers, but some use RCS balls instead) in front of a jet/rocket engine. However, it isn't practical to use a belt-feed system. Instead, they are typically hopper-fed.

This is a particularly good example:

https://kerbalx.com/klond/rapidfire-cannon

[eagle92lightning]

20 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

This is going to end up being craft sharing, and so the thread has been moved to the craft sharing subforum. 

So true, Any ways I have tried my hand at railguns that could possibly fire pretty large pieces of ammo (1.25m stack decoupers) and you could even apply a spin by rolling while firing (make sure the gun is centered for this)

[Azimech]

Stock shotgun, max spread.

 

 

Curious ... some gifs do load, others fail.

Click the link to see the shotgun with minimal spread.

https://gfycat.com/IgnorantAridBlobfish

 

[selfish_meme]

@swdennis  has built a cartridge fed gun, but it was a bit to big to be mounted on a plane, not sure if stock, pretty sure he used tweakscale