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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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My mate in high school used to make these. He'd wind his own electromagnetic little tunnel thing, apply current, and the little metal projectile used to shoot through walls. Was pretty amazing.
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 ?
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That's pretty cool, and dangerous
The Venn diagram for those two things is just a single circle
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