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Archives Archive 1 - Archived October 7, 2006

Contents 1 Dual Freq- 2 Rail gun = 'directed energy?' 3 Railgun

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[edit] Dual Freq-

Hi. I'm new to Wikipedia and someone is hacking onto my account. I'm sorry for the trouble my account caused on the SDI page, and I've dealt with the persons responsible.

[edit] Rail gun = 'directed energy?'

Is it really appropriate to call a hypervelocity rail gun a directed-energy weapon? Granted, you're directing a hell of a lot of kinetic energy at the target, but to my understanding the term is only used for 'death ray'-type weapons. -Toptomcat 03:39, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Railgun

The explanation of the mechanism of a railgun isn't how a true railgun works, check out the railgun article on wikipedia. What has been described is the mechanism of a coilgun. I'm not changing it because I am not entirely sure of the type of system that was tested.