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lenidog

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Sat Apr-23-05 01:44 AM
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8. Actually a rail gun is a whole different kettle of fish

The hammers you just drop and let gravity do its thing. While rail guns use magnetic forces to propel an object at hypervelocity. Instead of using explosives you just use the impact to do damage. In the early 90s the army actually got a rail gun to work. The only problem was that you needed one M-1 tank chassis to carry the thing and another to carry the generator to power it.

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