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A clear disadvantage of the plasma cannon is its weight. Even a small plasma cannon with only the firepower of an air gun weighs about 20 kg (44 lb) (without current supply). A foot soldier thus could not carry a plasma cannon powerful enough to be useful. It would have to be mounted in a stationary position or on a vehicle.
The MARAUDER (Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed-Energy and Radiation) used the Shiva Star project (a high energy capacitor bank which provided the means to test weapons and other devices requiring brief and extremely large amounts of energy) to accelerate a toroid of plasma at a significant percentage of the speed of ...
A plasma railgun is a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature. However, in a plasma railgun, the armature and ejected projectile consists of plasma , or hot, ionized, gas-like particles, instead of a solid slug of material.
Plasma gun may refer to: Plasma weapon, a type of directed-energy weapon that fires a beam, bolt, or stream of plasma; Plasma torch, a device for generating a directed flow of plasma; Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature
While based in fiction, research into energy-based weapons inspired by past speculation has contributed to real-life weapons in use by modern militaries sometimes called a sort of "death ray", such as the United States Navy and its Laser Weapon System (LaWS) deployed in mid-2014. [5] [6] Such armaments are technically known as directed-energy ...
Plasma weapon, a type of directed-energy weapon that fires a beam, bolt, or stream of plasma; Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature MARAUDER, a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning the development of a coaxial plasma railgun
Get your turtlenecks ready, it's time to talk vampires. If you're fascinated by creatures of the night, the kind that prey on human blood, you aren't alone.From dressing up in vampire costumes on ...
An electrolaser is a type of electroshock weapon that is also a directed-energy weapon.It uses lasers to form an electrically conductive laser-induced plasma channel (LIPC). A fraction of a second later, a powerful electric current is sent down this plasma channel and delivered to the target, thus functioning overall as a large-scale, high energy, long-distance version of the Taser ...