Re: Railgun Research: Barrrel Design or Power Supply

From: SPHINX Technologies (sphinx_at_TheWorld.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:43:56 +0000 (UTC)

In article <d0pv5o$pkp$1@rainier.uits.indiana.edu>,
Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>Wow. But I suppose there's little use for a coil gun that destroys itself
>when it fires.

It's pretty limited, unless destroying the one target is AWFULLY important.

Besides, there are much less clumsy ways of accelerating things. Railguns
are pretty much obsolete.

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