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The advantage of a plasma cannon is that it uses electricity as its energy source. The more energy that is supplied the faster the gases expand and the faster the projectile can be accelerated. This makes it possible to "dial-in" any velocity desired and allows the projectile to reach a speed at which it would be possible to "outrun" the burn ...
A magnetic weapon is one that uses magnetic fields to accelerate or stop projectiles, or to focus charged particle beams. There are many hypothesized magnetic weapons, such as the railgun and coilgun which accelerate a magnetic (in the case of railguns; non-magnetic) mass to a high velocity, or ion cannons and plasma cannons which focus and direct charged particles using magnetic fields.
A particle-beam weapon uses a high-energy beam of atomic or subatomic particles to damage the target by disrupting its atomic and/or molecular structure. A particle-beam weapon is a type of space-based directed-energy weapon, which directs focused energy toward a target using atomic scale particles.
A plasma railgun is a linear accelerator and a plasma energy weapon 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.
A possible evasion tactic is dodging the firing axis of the gun, ... plasma, e.g. plasma rifles, ... disruptors, and plasma cannons are a few of the many weapons of ...
Plasma cannon may refer to: 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
An antimatter weapon is a theoretically possible device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon.Antimatter weapons are currently too costly and unreliable to be viable in warfare, as producing antimatter is enormously expensive (estimated at US$6 billion for every 100 nanograms), the quantities of antimatter generated are very small, and current ...
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 ...