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Old 12-11-10, 05:09 AM   #5
Spoon 11th
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Originally Posted by MaddogK View Post
Am curious of the power required for this weapon as the article didn't even hint at it, but if it's 1:1 then 33 million AMPS/sec of power were needed to fire that bad boy.

Gonna need a battleship just to cart around the reactors needed to generate that kinda electrical power.
I'd assume they use large capacitors to produce the energy, since the firing procedure only lasts so little time. Then they recharge the capacitors while they replace the rails of the gun for the next round.
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