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Originally Posted by mvassek
correct me if I am wrong but there should be no recoil from a rail gun. The recoil from a conventional powder actauted gun is due to the explosion that moves the round. The rail gun is in its basic terms a magnetic field being moved froward along a rail thus dragging the projectile down the rail until it clears the end of the rail no explosion just an object being dragged.
If anyone has information to the contrary please say so i would like to know for sure.
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No, railguns do produce recoil from the look of it. Aside from Newton's 3rd Law, and just thinking about it, I looked it up on numerous sites (some scientific, some speculative, etc) and they all said the same thing; recoil will be produced.