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Originally Posted by Platapus
But can a rail gun be used for indirect fire? I don't think so. I think it is a direct fire only weapon. Great for the ocean, but unless you want to bombard a beach at 150 miles, I don't think a rail gun would work for long range inland bombardment.
Still way cool technology.
Always had a thing for kinetic weapons.  |
Why couldn't it be used for indirect fire? What goes up must come down, right? A projectile using kinetic energy delivered by an electric current should move in the same manner as that deriving its kinetic energy from a chemical explosion, in other words, ballistically, with a quadratic arc.