Will we ever escape cartridge weapons?

>>32099107
Maybe

>>32099129
I remember some scifag on youtube saying it's a lack effective batteries.

Just not man portable.

>>32099156
Until we find unobtainium or break into another universe, we're a loooooooooooong way off.

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Not likely, they are literally and figuratively the best bang for the buck.

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this has a range of 300m

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this, if it worked, would have a range of 269 miles.

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>>32099156
Batteries is one part, this will probably be the first problem to be solved as there's a ton of RnD money going into it thanks to mobile electronics development.

Effective pulsed power is another. It's hard to go from zero to 100% and back again quickly, reliably, controllably, and cheaply when dealing with "Kill a man dead" levels of energy.

Heat is another one. Without the ability to quickly dump cartridges full of waste heat, that instead builds up in the weapon causing bad things. In the case (or caseless) of the G11, it manifested in the thing becoming unusably hot very quickly and risking cook-off of the remaining rounds. In the case of energy weapons, this probably results in the same not-human-usable temperatures, also causing melting of the expensive and delicate internals and causing the battery to explode/combust.

This is all assuming that they can match the universal application of hitting something with a chunk of metal for destructive potential. Making a practical energy weapon doesn't accomplish much if it can't break shit and kill people better than high velocity metal.

>>32099212
I fucking loved the levergat in FO4

>>32099212
>repeater from 1860
.45-70 makes up for it.

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Microwaves!!!!!

Nothing can stop them!!!!

I know the original E-11's had cartridges, not certain on the First Order version.

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>>32099489
I'm talking bout bullets JIMBO.

We're still using technology from over 100 years ago.

'the project appeared to be in the early experimental stages. The weapon was able to produce doughnut-shaped rings of plasma and balls of lightning that exploded with devastating thermal and mechanical effects when hitting their target and produced pulse of electromagnetic radiation that could scramble electronics.'

>>32099600
Why the fuck would we be using tanks on the moon?

Wheels are superior every way for light vehicles and even a fucking Super-Heavy Tank would be as light as an Stryker on the moon.

>>32099107
For small arms: probably never
for vehicle guns: probably soon

maybe next jump is more powerful or efficient chemical propellant?