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Originally Posted by MageB420666
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.
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Yeah, from what I was reading, It's not a matter of handheld rail guns being impossible/too expensive to build and power, but the fact that firing somthing at that velocity would have some crazy recoil.. lack of arms and whatnot. Even somthing shoulder mounted would be suicidal to fire, no?
I thought this conversation would bring up somthing about 'needle guns'.. there's bound to be more than a few sci-fi junkies out there who would know what I mean. Same concept, only rather than firing somthing spherical it involves tiny metal.. well.. 'needles' that would vaporise on impact? Just wondering if there was any research into this sort of thing. It seems a lot cheaper/easier/lighter than what they're building at the moment.