Does anyone jave any info o rspecs on these types of weapons. I know that they are not yet deployed on the battle field, but they will. Also if there are any pictures I would be happy to see them. Thank you.

Also I do know that the guns use a magnetic pulse to fired a metal shell at high mach speeds.

(fictional of course)... ERASER (Schwarzenegger flick). Also, see Quake III (I believe). Basically they use electromagnetism to accellerate the projectile to incredible speed. Nice thing about it, is that at such speeds, it's less affected by factors that would alter the trajectory of a standard shell, not to mention, it'd be easier to hit a fast moving target...like a jet, or another incoming missile perhaps....

I am not sure but I think I posted the plans for how to build a rail gun and a few others as well. If I didnt do this let me know I will go and search for it and post it again.

Falcon

Interesting, thanks for the link.

During WW2 the Germans experimented with this concept as an anti-aircraft weapon. Two seperate designs were underway and built but never became operational. Monster rail guns were on the drawing board by which balistic missiles and their payloads would be boosted into orbit. The problem was that this technology took a tremendous amount of electric energy and so would never have been effective as an A-A weapon except for spot defense. There are two papers on this. One post war in English based on German a translation and the other more detailed treatment which was penned during the war and in German. It didn't take a "Manhattan Project" to do this and we could have been using this technology instead of the shuttle for low orbit payloads long ago if we had been willing to do so.

Can you imagine what a 1 gram object would be like hitting a tank at mach 45, now thats the kind of speed the Sandia National Research Laboratories' 6mm Hypervelocity Launcher is capable of.

and to think people were complaining of over-shoot with the main gun of an M-1 battle tank.

Frankly, most tlak of using railguns to send useful payloads into orbit is a little far fetched. It's bad enough that we used German balistic missile designs for the first rockets, and have never since had the sence to reduce the G-forces involved. The forces involved in trying to send objects into space off of any surface mounted acceleration system are so great you'd have a VERY hard time not crushing every payload you try to send up. (yes, even if you build a mile long accelerator) While moving raw materials into orbit this way might seem practicle, expensive satilites and manned missions are another matter, requiring a gentler approach.

about the rail-gun it has already been deployed on ships but are not used, they basicly use 2 electromagnets and a high explosive warhead to accelerate it to mach-18 speeds and it can also be used to fire nukes and non-explosive slugs

its primary use is for destroying opponent ships or fortreses