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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:09 pm
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So we all know that plasma weapons, while awesome, are rather impractical. Energy needs aside, plasma itself doesn't fly very well in an atmosphere. Well, I came up with an idea for a slightly more practical plasma pistol. For convenience's sake, let's say that this design would be created sometime in the distant future, and the tech was available for all of this.
The idea is like this- effectively, it's a type of revolver. The cylinder would hold special "bullets", consisting of a magnetized tungsten core cased in a jacket of deuterium (solid hydrogen isotope). The gun would be operated using mass acceleration technology- using magnetized rails to propel the round down the barrel, which are powered by a cell in the grip and has no moving parts other than the cylinder. However, just inside the breech, a set of micro-lasers would super-heat the deuterium to near-fusion temperatures, converting it into plasma. When propelled down the barrel, the magnetized tungsten would generate a magnetic "toroid" to keep the plasma in it's shape in mid-flight. Upon impact, the plasma would deal it's damage, and the tungsten core would keep going through it's target, dealing additional damage.
In effect, it's more of a "plasma thrower". The tungsten core would be magnetized using some method (I don't exactly know how; I'm not Magneto, I don't know s**t about how magnets work), and would essentially generate it's own magnetic field. The reason for using tungsten is it's high melting point- the highest of any element, meaning that once the hydrogen starts burning, the core would remain intact. Effectively, you'd have the kinetic force of a mass driver weapon, combined with the high heat and electromagnetic properties of plasma. The magnetic field would allow the plasma to fly without air resistance stopping it (the biggest issue with pure plasma weapons), and the sheer velocity of the round would allow it to hit the target before the plasma dissipated. Even if it did (say, if the target is beyond a certain range), the tungsten core would still do serious damage.
So what do you think?
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:21 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 1:36 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:19 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:52 am
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:17 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:42 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:39 pm
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spoonz mcdoogle Recon_Ninja_985 wayyy too much effort when bullets work just fine? xp by that time in the future we'd have advanced soldier exo suits and the dudes would be carrying something like 20mm rifles to defeat other such armors ^this. I think we'd be much better off with some kind of laser type weapon as opposed to plasma.. The funny part is, if you use a whatever-color laser and clothe your army in the same color uniform, friendly fire incidents will become quite difficult, as you'd have to shoot someone in the head to cause harm to them. And this will also work in colors outside the visual spectrum, too.
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