Dumb Question

I built one yesterday. Want to buy it?

>>34701149
A plasma railgun is hard to build because you need a secondary source to generate and inject the plasma before firing the railgun.

>What happens to the plasma when it comes out of the barrel?
It quickly disperses. Some containment methods have been attempted, but they're not effective enough to make a practical weapon.

>Moreover, why do no civilian hobbyists who build railguns/coilguns whatever ever build anything like this?
Plasma quickly destroys any material. Its way too expensive for something that only makes a tiny fireball.

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Here's a picture I found a week or so ago. All the examples I've read about seem to say the plasma comes out like a toroid. This makes the picture seem at least a plausible design.

>tfw MARAUDER went silent the year you were born.

Theres a vid on YT of some university proff with a small scale working plasma gun

>>34701149
the only concepts that I know of for something like this that were worth exploring were devices that superheated the projectile via electromagnetic forces while it was in the process of firing. Not necessarily plasma so much as it would be molten metal usually but still cool none the less. This concept was used for the MAC cannons on the ships in the Halo universe.