No country's armed forces ever adopted his electromagnetic cannon, but the technology has since been adapted and extended to make "railguns" (electromagnetic mass accelerators) for the American Strategic Defense Initiative --- the so-called "Star Wars" Defense. ❋ Unknown (2001)
And of course lose different body parts when shot with railguns, missiles or laser! ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)
For example, the protagonist is usually an innocent, sometimes a child, rather than a fully-trained killing machine armed with railguns and automatic shotguns. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)
Her packet plasma cannon used a terawatt generator to supercompress helium and then magnetic coils, similar to her railguns, to instantly accelerate that packet to .3 of lightspeed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Btw where are the cloning facilities, and the big anti-matter power generators, and the Ion guns, pulse cannons and railguns. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Those left home lived on an increasingly poisonous landscape, operating the deep mantle mines and the enormous railguns that spat the bones of their world into someone else's space. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)
He thought he could picture them with pistols rather than railguns, but that was equally absurd, particularly the fact that they'd both missed. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)
It's designed with enough power overhead to potentially replace the main 155mm guns with electromagnetic railguns ❋ Unknown (2010)
There's nothing quite like the rush of running, falling, jumping and crawling your way toward the release switch whilst under fire from rockets, railguns and lasers ... then jabbing that switch and rel ... ❋ Bj? (2010)
Rank: not rated yet your rigged system wants to control you, of course things like this won't hit the market, if you get this you can defend yourselves with homemade railguns that actually work. report abuse ❋ Unknown (2010)
Both Ellis and Carr expect fully functional railguns on the decks of U.S. ❋ [email protected] (2010)
There's also a cost and logistical benefit associated with railguns. ❋ [email protected] (2010)
The US Navy has built railguns that can achieve those types of speed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A windstorm blows dozens of swaying cables stretched between the cramped, detailed buildings as giant railguns blast enormous lightning bolts at ships above. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She has the ability to control electricity and magnetism, allowing her to create instantaneous railguns using coins as projectiles. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yours is one of five ships in a fleet that, courtesy of a strange meteor, end up crash landing on the planet and getting into all sorts of trouble with the local wildlife - which mainly consists of animals that are somehow resistant to railguns but vulnerable to most melee attacks. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Notably more common than fighting alien robots with frigate-mounted railguns, however. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That's the nice thing about them: unlike chemical propulsion, railguns scale upwards quite easily. ❋ Unknown (2009)
