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Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel
(www.eurasiantimes.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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That’s a gauss gun, not a railgun. Still cool, though.
Ahhh ok. He'd do them with the capacitors from disposable cameras that the local camera store would give him.
I assumed they were synonyms ? how do they differ ?
They're pretty similar, in that both use electromagnetic forces to launch a projectile.
Gaus cannons use a field around the projectile, applied by wires wrapped around a tube, whereas railguns use two rails touching the projectile to conduct the magnetic field through the projectile.
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