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Posted - 2011.05.27 09:52:00 -
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Edited by: Nova Fox on 27/05/2011 09:55:38
Depends on the laser design itself actually.
A chemical based laser would likely require not only venting but cycling the hot used gas with unused and cool gas, and deal with the gas' expansion this can be accomplised with a gas channeling methood in various ways similar to how guns use expanding gas from bullet powder explosion to reset the hammer, this would result in a recoilt similar to other guns. However some would argue having the catalyst gas in the barrels a stupid design however I have to say its alot smarter than having extremly toxic chemicals on the inside breaking though the seals where as in the barrels if it gets shot off, oh well out in space it goes.
An crystal based laser would 'fan the blades' after all the focaling of energy though the materials would heat it up and degrade it eventually, but letting the blades of base materials cool down or cycle out would allow for faster refiring rates, this however doesnt require recoiling back like a traditional gun but a opening vents on the side instead and possibly compressing forcing the blades to be exposed to a slightly cooler envrionment. So these lasers should look like an accordian when recoiling.
However in this day in age in eve we're likely dealing with the warhead lasers where you basically set off a nuke in a containment chamber and then focus all that energy down range. This however would create alot material, gas, pressure, energy, and excess radiation all which needs to be removed before refiring. The recoil can simply be a purge mechanism meant to deal with that readying the laser for the next nagasaki to go off in its chamber.
Either way as mentioned earlier physics would declare that shoving that much energy out would and should have nearly dissimilar equal counter energy on the giving end. Most of this will be heat however and less kinetic in a lasers case but who says energy waves cant manipulate objects to force them to move, I mean how else would an optical tweezers work or the xray scope for nanoconstruction in current real tech.
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