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To: polemikos
wow head scrater huh? anyone know anything about railguns?

I've put some really clean holes in some pretty thick steal with 12.7 x 99mm (nato) before but much still gonna be thicker than a pinky finger??
19 posted on 11/18/2003 3:05:02 PM PST by rightofthefairway
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To: rightofthefairway
anyone know anything about railguns?

You'd have to divert most of the Iraqi electrical grid's capacity to charge the capacitors in any reasonable amount of time.

21 posted on 11/18/2003 3:07:14 PM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Major Vic Deakins, USAF)
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To: rightofthefairway
I've put some really clean holes in some pretty thick steal with 12.7 x 99mm (nato) before but much still gonna be thicker than a pinky finger??

Not all of them.

The Chinese Type 84 armour piercing discarding sabot round for the Soviet 12.7x108mm AA tank heavy MG, for instance. Or these:


41 posted on 11/18/2003 4:02:45 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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