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The ability to keep a ball of high-temperature gas together and project it at high speed opens up interesting possibilities for weapons. One of these was studied under a project called MARAUDER in 1993 at the USAF’s Phillips Laboratory8. Marauder stands for Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation – surely a prize-winning acronym. Utilising the awesome Shiva Star power system, experiments spat out toroids (donut-shaped rings) of plasma9. Other experiments have involved containing toroids (in strong magnetic fields) to produce hot nuclear fusion, but the aim of Marauder was to project a minute plasma toroid at high velocity.

As with lightning, the tiny, hot core of the toroid would be surrounded by a glowing ball of excited air. On striking a solid target, the toroids produced “extreme mechanical and thermal shock” and a pulse of electromagnetic radiation.

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ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar

But indeed, using this logic, shouldn't High Velocity Guns Cannons be a pre-requisite to Carbines ?

But most important : Realism is good to have, but what about the gameplay ?

Oh, in case you'd like to have your own (gauss/coil)gun :
https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/#
[image]https://arcflashlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Small-rotated-e1593152993456.jpg[/image]

Oh, also, I had no idea that "plasma guns" even existed IRL, or that you could have a railgun where the rails and/or the projectile aren't solid, but they do and they're one an the same !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER

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The ability to keep a ball of high-temperature gas together and project it at high speed opens up interesting possibilities for weapons. One of these was studied under a project called MARAUDER in 1993 at the USAF’s Phillips Laboratory8. Marauder stands for Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation – surely a prize-winning acronym. Utilising the awesome Shiva Star power system, experiments spat out toroids (donut-shaped rings) of plasma9. Other experiments have involved containing toroids (in strong magnetic fields) to produce hot nuclear fusion, but the aim of Marauder was to project a minute plasma toroid at high velocity.

As with lightning, the tiny, hot core of the toroid would be surrounded by a glowing ball of excited air. On striking a solid target, the toroids produced “extreme mechanical and thermal shock” and a pulse of electromagnetic radiation.

Oh, and one thing that was bugging me :
For "Charged Gauss Small Arms" the +50% velocity improvement says to be coming from "using a magnetic acceleration system".
But what were then the "non-charged" "Gauss Small Arms" using ??
(As a reminder, "Gauss" comes from Gauss's two laws about electric flux and magnetic flux.)