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Re: SG - New Israeli's _ Eureka Miniatures

From: "Steve Pugh" <mafb90@p...>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:51:05 -0400
Subject: Re: SG - New Israeli's _ Eureka Miniatures

> When I was living in Austin I had a friend who was at the Univ. of
> Texas there. He worked in the same building as the scientists and
> engineers who were working on "coil-gun" EM guns, and he said that
> they were enormously LOUD!! Now the caliburs that they were working
> with were larger than man-carry, but even scaled down the noise
> level would be higher than modern weapons. At this point I don't see
> where the noise reduction is going to come from.

Do you happen to know what produced the noise? Was it a sonic boom? 
Or was it somehow produced by the mechanism itself?

	Steve

My other .sig is a Porsche.

Steve Pugh.	  http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/estate/ax16/

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