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Another challenge by 
This time he wanted an artillery gauss gun [link]
So here it is, the Longbow Gauss Artillery, a mobile platform capable of throwing artillery shells at targets up to 20km of distance (or more).
It works with electromagnetic modules over the barrel, pulling and pushing the ammo as it passes over them, accelerating it at several miles per second until it goes of the barrel, without smoke, or explosion noise. The gun can be only detected when the shells go over the sound speed, leaving a trace and the characteristic sound of supersonic flight.
The model at right is a fix towable artillery gun, to be deployed in artillery fields away from the battlefield. The one in the left is mounted in a tower, to be added to a tank hull or ship.
This time he wanted an artillery gauss gun [link]So here it is, the Longbow Gauss Artillery, a mobile platform capable of throwing artillery shells at targets up to 20km of distance (or more).
It works with electromagnetic modules over the barrel, pulling and pushing the ammo as it passes over them, accelerating it at several miles per second until it goes of the barrel, without smoke, or explosion noise. The gun can be only detected when the shells go over the sound speed, leaving a trace and the characteristic sound of supersonic flight.
The model at right is a fix towable artillery gun, to be deployed in artillery fields away from the battlefield. The one in the left is mounted in a tower, to be added to a tank hull or ship.
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I've been meaning to ask something of someone who knows more about Gauss weaponry than I do. I have plans to design a weapon, a sniper weapon, that works by accelerating a tiny, BB-sized projectile electromagnetically until it reaches speeds so fast that it basically turns the air around it into a trail of plasma, and becomes superheated itself. It also moves so fast that, despite being tiny, it can penetrate almost any personal armor and produce considerable knockback. Basically it moves so fast and the projectile is so small that it blurs the line between hypervelocity projectile and particle beam. The projectile in the air is supposed to resemble a shot from the beam rifle from Halo, or this demonstration of hyper velocities (not the blue "beam.")
My question is, if you make the projectile small enough, will you be able to avert the loud bang caused by projectiles breaking the sound barrier? That is the reason for the BB-sized projectile. Also, would you be able to cause enough damage to the target with a tiny projectile, as long as you fire it at a high enough speed? Finally, I'd imagine the power requirements for such a weapon would be immense, and the sniper might need to wear a backpack power unit. I had someone else tell me it's a terrible idea for a sniper to wear something as heavy as a power supply backpack, but I really don't see any other way of powering such a power-intensive sniper weapon, unless there was some kind of miracle to miniaturize a device that produces large amounts of power. Even so, it'd be a miracle even to shrink said device down to the size of a backpack, which is why I suggested the backpack power unit in the first place.
My question is, if you make the projectile small enough, will you be able to avert the loud bang caused by projectiles breaking the sound barrier? That is the reason for the BB-sized projectile. Also, would you be able to cause enough damage to the target with a tiny projectile, as long as you fire it at a high enough speed? Finally, I'd imagine the power requirements for such a weapon would be immense, and the sniper might need to wear a backpack power unit. I had someone else tell me it's a terrible idea for a sniper to wear something as heavy as a power supply backpack, but I really don't see any other way of powering such a power-intensive sniper weapon, unless there was some kind of miracle to miniaturize a device that produces large amounts of power. Even so, it'd be a miracle even to shrink said device down to the size of a backpack, which is why I suggested the backpack power unit in the first place.