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Originally Posted by Kodega
Another big problem is that the rounds in a railgun have to be non-megnatic. So you couldn't use any metals. Even aluminum is to reactive. (Almost, if not everything, is magnetic if enough force is applied. I remeber seeing on the discovery channel about an some university making spiders float with VERY powerful magnetic fields.) The rounds would have to be made out of some sort of plastic. Course no plastic is strong enough right now, so you have a rail gun that works but the round shreds the second it comes out the barrel.
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Umm, don't they use tungsten to make the rounds? I could have sworn they did. Why would the rounds have to be non-magnetic? Wouldn't it just help the gun transfer more energy to the round? That way it's accelerating the round itself, along with the carrying case.
A handheld rail gun would be extremely impractical. You would have no real use for it, plus the recoil from firing would at least knock you on your ass and break alot of your bones, if it just didn't kill you. A convetional gun is much better for infantry use.