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I was thinking about this when I was putting up a fairy statue I got my wife before we got married with my 2 Enterprises to protect it from damage. Commenting how it's protected by the USS Enterprise and Megatron's fusion cannon.

Then I began to ask how would his fusion cannon realistically work?

Before we begin, I had to take out a $2500 loan to fix up both our vehicles. A $450 deductible for fender bender on my wife's car, between $1200-$1500 for a new subframe to get my car to pass inspection. Plus, there was a margin for error in the event the estimate was more than expected.

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Anyways, the first obvious idea is that Megatron simply detonated a fusion reaction, presumably by a deuterium/deuterium fusion reaction with energon powered X-ray lasers

The mini-nuclear detonation would have superheated the gases to a plasma and expand at supersonic speeds. His barrel uses superconducting magnetic coils to contain the plasma as it expands. But once it left the barrel's magnetic containment field, it was free to expand without anything holding it together.

Added even Megatron's super mass and stance would have to compensate for the recoil.

We've seen his reformatted version, Galvatron, use the fusion cannon as a rocket on Transformers: The Movie (1986) as it's a simple case of Newton's third law of motion.

For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

youtu.be/dzUU-aiDm-c?feature=s…

Even with a magnetic accelerator, it still has to fight the atmosphere, which could most likely dissipate the fusion blast, reducing his range.

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The next possibility is Project: Excalibur.

It was a part of the Star Wars Stategic Defence Initiative. Essentially, a nuclear detonation releases X-rays that's somehow focused into a laser beam.

youtu.be/GM6YdeYPo-A?si=bGVt6K…

It's possible Megatron's fusion cannon may have the necessary X-ray reflectors needed, along with a focusing lens that can withstand the energies generated by the fusion detonation. This, in combination with expelling the fusion product, gases out the barrel as well in order for Megatron to murder Ironhide, as seen on the 1986 movie.

youtu.be/MhKfCpX_8zI?feature=s…

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A third possibility is having a tungsten shell that's propelled by a nuclear detonation. As one would imagine, a tungsten shell is propelled by the expanding gases from the nuclear detonation at high velocities, especially if it's in a sabot that separates from the shell, and it becomes a prolate spheroid -- football shape.

The fusion detonation could also power a helical rail gun.

youtu.be/Xll9rIzZPeQ?si=klWxY6…

But that would be less like a fusion cannon and more of a fusion powered helicoil rail gun. This also limits the amount of shots Megatron can fire before needing to re-arm.

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There's an idea from Spacedock about a laser coupled particle beam..... I don't know.

youtu.be/YXwlOmD9_xA?si=SuJV25…

So Megatron's fusion cannon may start with a fusion reaction with both intense light and radiation and high speed and temperature particles. The particles are accelerated out the barrel with electromagnetic coils and cooled down. The intense light is somehow reflected to nudge the particles back to centre, extending the range of the fusion cannon

I say "somehow" as they're X-rays. Added this technique is more in line with propulsion than a weapon.

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Going back to a projectile with nuclear fusion "gunpowder," metallic hydrogen "bullets" or other gases that can be super compressed or super cooled to metallic states. It's still a fusion cannon, but it would be more like an ice bullet. And as we found out on Mythbusters, it ain't gonna work.

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On the same video from Spacedock, it might be possible to have a phased array laser, but with X-rays from the fusion reaction. Large barrel, smaller point, laser with a modified variation of Project: Excalibur.

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But those are just ideas about how Megatron's fusion cannon may work realistically. And open to other possibilities that maintain the concept of fusion cannon where fusion takes a major role, and not a small part.

The images are from the Transformers episode, "War Dawn," where we're introduced to Orion -- Optimus Prime -- and the Superman episode, "Destroy the Defendroids," from 1988.

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I was thinking about this when I was putting up a fairy statue I got my wife before we got married with my 2 Enterprises to protect it from damage. Commenting how it's protected by the USS Enterprise and Megatron's fusion cannon.

Then I began to ask how would his fusion cannon realistically work?

Before we begin, I had to take out a $2500 loan to fix up both our vehicles. A $450 deductible for fender bender on my wife's car, between $1200-$1500 for a new subframe to get my car to pass inspection. Plus, there was a margin for error in the event the estimate was more than expected.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

www.paypal.com/paypalme/newdiv…

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Anyways, the first obvious idea is that Megatron simply detonated a fusion reaction, presumably by a deuterium/deuterium fusion reaction with energon powered X-ray lasers

The mini-nuclear detonation would have superheated the gases to a plasma and expand at supersonic speeds. His barrel uses superconducting magnetic coils to contain the plasma as it expands. But once it left the barrel's magnetic containment field, it was free to expand without anything holding it together.

Added even Megatron's super mass and stance would have to compensate for the recoil.

We've seen his reformatted version, Galvatron, use the fusion cannon as a rocket on Transformers: The Movie (1986) as it's a simple case of Newton's third law of motion.

For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.

youtu.be/dzUU-aiDm-c?feature=s…

Even with a magnetic accelerator, it still has to fight the atmosphere, which could most likely dissipate the fusion blast, reducing his range.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

The next possibility is Project: Excalibur.

It was a part of the Star Wars Stategic Defence Initiative. Essentially, a nuclear detonation releases X-rays that's somehow focused into a laser beam.

youtu.be/GM6YdeYPo-A?si=bGVt6K…

It's possible Megatron's fusion cannon may have the necessary X-ray reflectors needed, along with a focusing lens that can withstand the energies generated by the fusion detonation. This, in combination with expelling the fusion product, gases out the barrel as well in order for Megatron to murder Ironhide, as seen on the 1986 movie.

youtu.be/MhKfCpX_8zI?feature=s…

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A third possibility is having a tungsten shell that's propelled by a nuclear detonation. As one would imagine, a tungsten shell is propelled by the expanding gases from the nuclear detonation at high velocities, especially if it's in a sabot that separates from the shell, and it becomes a prolate spheroid -- football shape.

The fusion detonation could also power a helical rail gun.

youtu.be/Xll9rIzZPeQ?si=klWxY6…

But that would be less like a fusion cannon and more of a fusion powered helicoil rail gun. This also limits the amount of shots Megatron can fire before needing to re-arm.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

There's an idea from Spacedock about a laser coupled particle beam..... I don't know.

youtu.be/YXwlOmD9_xA?si=SuJV25…

So Megatron's fusion cannon may start with a fusion reaction with both intense light and radiation and high speed and temperature particles. The particles are accelerated out the barrel with electromagnetic coils and cooled down. The intense light is somehow reflected to nudge the particles back to centre, extending the range of the fusion cannon

I say "somehow" as they're X-rays. Added this technique is more in line with propulsion than a weapon.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

Going back to a projectile with nuclear fusion "gunpowder," metallic hydrogen "bullets" or other gases that can be super compressed or super cooled to metallic states. It's still a fusion cannon, but it would be more like an ice bullet. And as we found out on Mythbusters, it ain't gonna work.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

On the same video from Spacedock, it might be possible to have a phased array laser, but with X-rays from the fusion reaction. Large barrel, smaller point, laser with a modified variation of Project: Excalibur.

-----------------------------------------------------------------

But those are just ideas about how Megatron's fusion cannon may work realistically. And open to other possibilities that maintain the concept of fusion cannon where fusion takes a major role, and not a small part.

The images are from the Transformers episode, "War Dawn," where we're introduced to Orion -- Optimus Prime -- and the Superman episode, "Destroy the Defendroids," from 1988.