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Does a coilgun have any advantages over a railgun?

• ben_w 7y ago
  Amateur railgun builders comment about the projectiles welding themselves to the rails; that certainly doesn’t happen in a coilgun. I think there’s also a big problem with supplying extremely high currents, which you can circumvent a bit in a coilgun by having more turns of wire.
  • hanniabu 7y ago
    Interesting, makes me want to see a chart with the pros and cons of both. There's gotta be a reason they chose to go this route.
  • keiru 7y ago
    Speaking from ignorance, I would expect that official research would encompass military grade material science, to which amateurs don't have access realistically.