For those wondering why the Gauss rifle has a flash supressor...

[Knocky]

Here is a real railgun....that has a hellava flash when fired.


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...ntcmp=features

[Coreldan]

Not to mention Gauss rifle is still a combustion based rifle, it's just gauss technology boosting the projectile. This was even said in it's description in the original Planetside.

[DayOne]

but, how does it work?

[DviddLeff]

Pulsed electromagnets

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by DayOne

but, how does it work?

Sorry, best image I could find. You'd only get it if you've watched the Stargate SG-1 series extensively.

[lolroflroflcake]

Magnetically accelerated projectiles tend to travel so fast they generate a highly visible trail behind them, so that kinda does make a flash suppressor sorta pointless anyway. I'm assuming they are removing the trail for game play balance thus the inclusion of the flash suppressors for gauss rifles.

[Knocky]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

Sorry, best image I could find. You'd only get it if you've watched the Stargate SG-1 series extensively.

Temporal loop episode.

[Metalsheep]

Problem, science?

[That one noob]

Originally Posted by Metalsheep

Problem, science?

Just like Static in Static Shock.
God I loved the early 00s cartoons.

[DayOne]

Magnets eh? How do THEY work? Hmm?

[Hamma]

Nothing like a little ICP humor to lighten the mood.

[Knocky]

Originally Posted by DayOne

Magnets eh? How do THEY work? Hmm?

Two rocks are married....then one rock cheats on the other.

Now they repel each other....and a magnet is born.

[Biohazard]

Railgun =/= Gauss gun, I always saw it as having coils that pulsed to accelerate the projectile in addition to normal propellants.

[DviddLeff]

Yeah gauss gun is coils, rail gun is a sliding contact.

[exoteror]

I love that BAE systems have their name in bold to show that it's a british weapon

but that weapon was awesome.