RE: SG - New Israeli's _ Eureka Miniatures

Actually if you look at some of the research and developement work on
sound suppression (inverse harmonics?) that has been occurring over the
last few years you will be surprised at how close we are now to a
"silencer" in the layman's terms.

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> From: 	Steve Pugh[SMTP:mafb90@pop.dial.pipex.com]
> Sent: 	Monday, 1 September 1997 21:36
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: SG - New Israeli's _ Eureka Miniatures
> 
> Amongst the list of new goodies from Eureka was:
> 
> >Sniper (Gauss Rifle with Silencer?) 
> 
> Um, I don't think you could silence a gauss rifle if you tried.
> The firing mechanism is already silent by the fact that it's 
> electromagnetic not chemical, so you probably won't have any exhaust 
> gases to worry about. But the whole point of a gauss rifle is to 
> throw a very small penetrator at very high speeds. I don't think 
> you'll be able to do much about the sonic boom.
> I'm could be wrong, been a while since I read about this sort of 
> thing.
> 
> 
> And anyway, well all know there's no such thing as a silencer, only 
> sound suppressors. ;-)
> 
>	Cheers,
>		Steve
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