Rail guns info

3 posts ยท Apr 25 2000 to Apr 25 2000

From: Jeremey Claridge <jeremy.claridge@k...>

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:36:49 +0100 (BST)

Subject: Rail guns info

ok all this talk of rail guns and so forth is very interesting but are there
any good articles on the net that explain the principles behind it and other
weapons?

not to technical mind you not all of us on this list work for defence agencies
:)

From: Popeyesays@a...

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:42:56 EDT

Subject: Re: Rail guns info

In a message dated 4/25/00 11:37:22 AM Central Daylight Time,
> jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk writes:

<<
ok all this talk of rail guns and so forth is very interesting but are there
any good articles on the net that explain the principles behind it and other
weapons?

not to technical mind you not all of us on this list work for defence agencies
:)

 Jeremey

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:56:42 -0400

Subject: Re: Rail guns info

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:36:49 +0100 (BST), JEREMY CLARIDGE
> <jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk> wrote:

> ok all this talk of rail guns and so forth is very

Not sure how technical/non-technical you really want it, but I got these
URLs from a friend the last time this subject came up:

:Base page at U of Texas:
:    http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/sd03/el.html
:
:Includes phrases such as "true tactically configured EM gun".
:    http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/rd/rd02/02.html
:
:Now go to the page:
:    http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/rd/rd01/01.html
:
:A real treasure - and Canadian to boot. Reports, links, details,
:and a railgun mailing list.
:    http://www.perpetual.net/kyle/railgun.html
:
:A nice list of abstracts - yes, someone has broken 10 km/s...
:    http://www.sover.net/~geoffk/abstract.txt