05-18-2016, 07:02 PM
(05-18-2016, 06:26 PM)kawaiiChiimera Wrote:In the 33rd century I'm sure that singularity would be achieved or resources would be much too sparse, and a gauss weapon would be looked af how we look at slingshots today, a toy...(05-18-2016, 04:54 PM)Rahizel Wrote: That's like asking "how fast do cars go"This is 33rd century tech, so a lot of it is pretty much artistic license. Its more for close range (2m-100m) so accuracy is not much of an issue. The barrels would be made of dense, durable metal (think titanium carbide), about half a meter long, and would probably have four to six EM coils of extremely low resistance on each.
Show me a design brief complete with specifications of coil size, barrel length, slug size, and materials used.
Any info is better than nothing.
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The projectiles would probably be small, more for puncturing armor than rending flesh (which it'll do anyways), optimized for coilgun use and supersonic velocities.
edit2: Also, we have warm (not hot) superconductors and super capacitors far exceeding the energy density and output of modern explosives.
Assuming that the idea of toys even lasts that long.