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In my understanding, railgun development is physics and engineering. Can you expand a bit on the need for human life for testing ?
by petra 7y ago
In my understanding, railgun development is physics and engineering.
Can you expand a bit on the need for human life for testing ?
- Balgair 7y agoLike, fire one of these railguns that are ship-based in rough seas at a hostile target that is shooting at you too. There's smoke, flak, little wires, mist, spray, etc in the air that can gum up the gun and jam. Does firing one of these things in a storm have interactions with lightining effects? How does that big of an EM field affect sailors over time, like the concussive blasts affected sailors previously? But that's already something that a person can think of. It's the stuff you cannot think of that are the main issues. When the panic sets in and the battlefield is very live, what happens that will affect the armaments that you did not think of?