Re: Weapon Naming Madness!!

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> > Any effective research on the subject is probably classified, but I
> > wouldn't doubt that someone is trying to make it effective.
> 
> Yep. Two of the "someones" are the US and British armies.

i saw something on the telly a while ago (so it must be true) about some
over-advanced nation's military boffins developing railguns; i think it
was in the context of SDI. anyway, in their version, the round is
kevlar,
and has an aluminium foil backing. the current through the round
vapourises the aluminium, and the resulting plasma provides the path
needed for the current to flow, setting up the Lorenz effect and
slinging
the round down the track.

if you haven't looked at the glubco link someone posted (i forget just
who, but huge kudos to them), have a butchers:

http://www.glubco.com/weaponry/

the railgun is cool. the oxygen cannon (or, as they call it, the death
ray) is cool. the magnetron is very cool. the railgun has pretty good
explanations, too.

Tom