Re: Yeah, but can they get it on a mammoth tank? [message #315027 is a reply to message #314895] |
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EvilWhiteDragon
Messages: 3751 Registered: October 2005 Location: The Netherlands
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It's not hard to build a railgun, the difficult part is in firing large projectiles at high speed.
Also, the "barrels" of these kinds of guns wear fast due to the massive energy passing through them.
[Note that I might be mistaking between 2 kinds of (possible) weapons, one being a railgun, which I think works on Lorentz forces, and the other being .... which works with electro-magnetic forces to give the bullet it's forward speed]
Getting the power is relatively easy, with capicitors. The hard part on it is create wiring in such away that it doesn't fry itself , due to the massive amounts of energy released in a matter of nanoseconds.

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