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Posted by: Count Rolland
Posted by: Po0f MoNk3y
Posted by: xAssault12x
Posted by: AK 47625714
AKA the Gauss Rifle.
No. The gauss rifle people like to talk about is some BR wannabe or just another type of sniper. This is a completely different gun. Also, gauss rifles just fire really big bullets really really fast. My gun uses magnetic acceleration. Very different.
So you mean a Coil Gun, also known as the Gauss gun because of Carl Gauss' study of magnetic acceleration.
Also known as NOT a "very different" gun..
Exactly. Only difference that coilguns use a series of magnetic coils making no contact with the projectile, while a railgun requires contact with polar rails and an electric current to create a magnetic field which accelerates the projectile. Simply, no contact vs. contact.
Interesting to note that in Halo, the Gauss cannons on the warthogs are very loud..but since the magnetic projectile requires no contact with the magnetic coils, you'd think there wouldn't be any sound...Unless the projectile was faster than the speed of sound and created a sonic-boom....0.o
The rounds splode on contact. I always found this odd, as I've always seen Gauss Cannons/Rifles as surgical anti-material weapons.
[Edited on 10.04.2009 10:45 PM PDT]