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Originally Posted by Snowfire
As for railguns - which are not and never will be guass cannons (guass weapons are just a fancy name for coilguns, which operate on totally different princibles to railguns) - we have them working. Yes, they're experimental. But we've had numerous known test firings of models ranging up to 33 MJ.
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Excuse me for mixing up the terminology. In my experience "gauss weapons" was a catch all term for magnetically accelerated weaponry. I didn't realize there was a specific distinction.
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Originally Posted by Snowfire
Again, this is all vastly simplified, but I hope it gets across the basics.
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I understand the basics well enough. I made a "railgun" one summer for funzies. It wasn't even close to effective
