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Railguns designs for hand held rifles and spacecraft
I'm writing a book and I want to use rail-guns for advanced space age factions in warfare.
I would like to make them as realistic as possible so I did a bit of digging myself, but most of the ...
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What kind of protection system could be used against railguns?
What kind of system using modern technology would be able to counter a railgun projectile on a vehicle (both land and sea)? Would a think slab of angled armour in the shape of "<" work to cover the ...
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How to build a tank equipped with a 1 GJ railgun
Not a tank that could survive being shot with a 1 GJ railgun (pretty sure nothing can survive that), but a tank that can withstand the recoil of a 1 GJ railgun that's been mounted to it.
Obviously, ...
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