3/30/2024 0 Comments Artistic licence physicsWell I'm no nuclear physicist but I feel the need to dispel a myth right here. As for nuclear explosions in Gundam, well since most MS are nuclear powered -anytime something gets blow should produce nasty consequences -most of which have been omitted in the majority of series Nacho-wan wrote:I would say crap per se, because crap is put in most shows by ignorant writers. ![]() I thought this might be an good discussion starter. ZAFT's next countermeasure is the Neutron Stampeder, which somehow prematurely detonates the warheads before they're launched. Then N-Jammer Canceller technology is discovered and they go back to launching nukes. Gundam SEED has ZAFT remove nukes from the equation of war with the N-Jammer, a device that completely cancels nuclear reactions in its radius. However, they still fail in that in order to make a casaba howitzer that small without blowing up the GP-02 in the process, it would have to be made of a material much MUCH stronger than anything currently known to man, and since mobile suits of all makes and models are getting torn apart by simple energy and kinetic weapons, this probably isn't the case. This suggests that the bazooka is actually a casaba howitzer, a directed energy weapon that utilizes a nuclear-shaped charge to generate a high-energy gamma ray laser and is essentially a hypothetical real-life Wave Motion Gun. The GP-02's atomic bazooka doesn't seem to be a conventional nuclear missile launcher, as instead of a missile flying out of the shaft, an intense beam of energy emerges. which did not behave much like actual nukes would (most horribly: the Physalis Gundam's nuclear bazooka looks like it fires some sort of beam rather than a projectile). Both Stardust Memory and Char's Counterattack also prominently featured nukes. How averted this is is debatable, as Amuro is shown he has to slice the missile apart in a certain way to keep it from exploding. ![]() Slicing the nuke does not cause it to explode, but fall to pieces harmlessly. Amazingly enough, Mobile Suit Gundam averted this: a nuke is launched in one episode, and is then sliced apart by the eponymous Gundams beam saber.
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