wondering if anything like this is possible...

[Rokudon]

i was wondering, is there any material created in this world that can withstand 800-900psi internally, BUT shatter the second it comes in contact with a compression force? ex. it holds a gas at 900psi (a tension force? gas pushes outwards, applies tension to the structure) and completely demilishes itself upon contact with compression force (it drops, it shatters into harmless pieces that injures no one)? and from this, anybody guess what i'm thinking of?

[ScatterPlot]

Paintball bullets... but I dont know how you would have that.

[Rokudon]

lol no not realy, bullets arent self propelled, and why in the world would we need a hollowpoint paintball? lol, i might as well explain, i'm too bored to do anything else... i'm thinking a paintball RPG, or rocket propelled grenade. the material would house a bunch of gas within a chamber in the back. have a special launcher for it, with a 12 gram piercing pin. the RPG is also filled with paint, in another chamber infront of and around the gas chamber. the pin would pierce the gass supply, and the thing would fly forwards becasue "every action has an equal and opposite reaction". then, the second it hit anything, ex.a person or a tree, it would harmelssly shatter against it, letting all its paint fly around and marking anything within the vicinity. not sure what would happen to the gas after that, but i'd think it would amplify the spread, and the advantage i see is, it would increase distance like crazy and make grenade launcheer acctually useful.

[ScatterPlot]

Oh, I was thinking like use these things as individual bullets/cartridges/whatever, so that each paintball would have it's own teeny air supply.

[Rokudon]

lol i thot along those lines before, but i doubted the air supply inside it could do much for the size (plus it would limit marking capacity) and plus, it defeats the paintBALL idea, because you would need clips from that point on, have to be oriented in one direction, yada yada. i said grenade launcher because you get a larger package to work with, meaning more paint to make it useful, + a larger gas supply for longer distances. just imagine... a scenario game with something like that, slap a scope ona bazooka type launcher, take aim, and fire on that now defenseless castle.... or, you could be like Doc nickel and take out your nifty 6.8 caliber paintball mortar launcher....

[wolfwood_is_here]

1. If there was a material, it is probably expensive. So much that there would be an even greater diminishing return. Meaning that the performance would be great, but nobody would be able to reasonably able to afford it.

2. Paintballs are not actually subjected to that much pressure when they are fired. The internal pressure of the gun may be 8 or 900 psi, but after it goes past the valve, the volume it has to fill increases dramatically. Pressure is determined by the amount of stuff you have packed into a volume. By firing, you create a lot bigger volume.

IE, The "low pressure" that people seek is more for efficiency of the gun itself, meaning it does not have to be at such a high internal pressure to do the same things, because there is higher gas flow. So technically, you could completely ignore whether low pressure would make you shoot better or not, because from the paintballs end of it, it is all the same.

3. Why such a small supply of air? If you were to have a rocket launcher for paintball, you would want to have the standard ASA, and an adapter for using 12g cartridges, so you would not limit your target crowd.

4. Because the RPG as you put it would be subjected to the same rules as other paintball markers, a scope would only be good for finding a target downfield, not for actually shooting. It would definitely intimidate those who didn't know that little tidbit.

5. What would be the difference between this and the mortar/grenade launcher that Tippmann had made? It worked off the idea of a paintballoon with packaging to protect it from the rapid acceleration and intense pressure

So, hope this helps. Like the sig says, correct me if I am wrong...

[Rokudon]

true material would be expensive... but hey, its deep blue, not the workshop. doesnt mean it would be made
yes well, i'm saying that if the gas supply were held internally, it would have a self contained propellant system, and not having to rely on only initial thrust. think of it this way, a standard apintball is like a bullet, only initial thrust from cartrige untl it hits a target. my idea is like a cruise missle minus the guidance systems, a self contained propellant system to increase range and deliver a package. add a few fins to it, and you'd get some good accuracy and range compared to a regular paintball.
eg. real world sniper, max effective range is around a mile at 0.25 MOA
cruise missle range is MUCH longer than a bullet, excluding guidance systems it still has good long range potential.
besides, would you rather use a tippmann flatline, or a finned paint grenade with an integrated air supply to hit a target at the same range?