Re: Weapon Naming Madness!!

As an aside go to this page to see working models of Railgun/ mass
driver type weapons being used by highschool students...
 http://www.glubco.com/weaponry/railgun.htm

Los

David Brewer wrote:

> In message <000401be6f09$e85f48a0$bb4eaecf@u4g8g4> "Daulton James
> Whitehead III" writes:
>
> Long time ago from some 'net source that I've long forgotten I
> heard that a railgun (as described above) could be used to propel
> a projectile, the plasma pushing at the back of said projectile.
> What was proposed was that the projetile be about a gram of
> plastic, which could be handily accelerated to about, say, one
> hundred kilometers per second. The resulting kinetic energy of the
> teeny pellet would be five megajoules, enough to toast a tank. The
> pellet, on striking a surface would instantly disintegrate into a
> plasma and continue burning its merry way through whatever was in
> front of it.
>
> I somehow doubt this would work in an atmosphere, though.
>
> --
> David Brewer