Re: Gauss Weapons

At 00:25 26/08/98 +0100, you wrote:
>This may not be all that new but friends in low places tell me that the
>British Army has a working Gauss artillery piece.
Hmm.. Is there any distinct advantage to a Gauss artillery piece
compared
to a standard chemical or binary propellant one? I can understand a
gauss
gun would have advantages in a tank - caseless ammo, less smoke on
firing
etc, but an arty piece is nowhere near the enemy and is only really
vunerable to counterbattery fire and air interdiction raids. Would a
Gauss
weapon have a longer range than a chemical powered one necessarily?
Higher
rate of fire? By definition they are going to be heavier of themselves
than
standard arty pieces because of the magnets, capacitors etc..

			TTFN
				Jon
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