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I wonder if a small railgun could be made portable for infantry, and how much power per shoot it would be. Because the home made ones don't seem that much power
by jokoon 11y ago
I wonder if a small railgun could be made portable for infantry, and how much power per shoot it would be. Because the home made ones don't seem that much powerful in term of muzzle energy.
- ryanmarsh 11y agoThe only thing that looked to me like it couldn't be made smaller/lighter was that capacitor bank. Are there smaller lighter capacitors that can produce the same?
- hatsunearu 11y agoCapacitors have really bad energy per volume figures. People underestimate how much energy chemical stuff has--gasoline, batteries, etc.
- hderms 11y agoWell they're being used by the Navy now to shoot down missiles, as far as I know. I think the tradeoffs are that they are super heavy and require a lot of energy but they can accelerate projectiles extremely fast. Very useful if you're trying to shoot down something that's also moving obscenely fast but not so useful if you just want to poke a hole in a living target running at 10 miles an hour.