It is a futuristic/laboratory themed weapon with a rarity of legendary, a fast fire rate, medium damage, medium capacity, and low mobility that is obtainable from the Space lucky chest in the form of weapon parts. I noticed that PA's while able to take out modules the same, aren't exactly as reliable at it, like Rails. However PA's can take out shields quite quickly and can be used to soften up a target for finishing. I've heard railgun projectiles fired at hypervelocity act more like explosives than anything. A particle beam is actually a terrible weapon realistically. If a person gets hit by a gigajoule or terajoule particle beam they will be lucky not to be plasma or vapor (or if its relying more on mechanical effects, chunky salsa) long before the radiation would probably kill them. Classical explosion pumped lasers still work if there are anti-nuclear treaties in place, and they're still some of the meanest things in space. But since most modern RG designs use a conductive armature to carry the projectile to the aperture the risk of arcing should be minimized or removed entirely. I mean i did specify X-men from the movies. Figure 1: Diagram of railgun principle of operation (Harris, 2005).

If you can recover them fine. Also as an aside, would railguns ever have electricity arcing between the rails while it's charging like it does in many works of sci fi? I like plasma accelerator more.

To create this article, 15 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. A gigajoule is more than enough energy to cremate you. Better for close range brawling. Indeed she has been designed by Haimura to look like a model. It's potentially useful in a vacuum. That's not even getting into it's meaner cousin, the nuclear pumped laser, which has even better range and versatility. Under real physical laws, a particle beam is not a functional handheld weapon. A particle beam weapon can disable electronics at multi-light second ranges. A railgun is a device which uses electrical current to take advantage of Laplace forces and the Biot-Savart law in order to launch a projectile. Please help us continue to provide you with our trusted how-to guides and videos for free by whitelisting wikiHow on your ad blocker. Even the ones I've found don't say much about the effects of the weapon. First appearing chronologically in To Aru Majutsu no Index as an antagonist, he later becomes the second protagonist of the series and primary male protagonist of the Science Side after being defeated by Kamijou Touma. Plasma Accelerator or Rail Gun? Touma vs Accelerator round 1: Index vs Railgun comparison. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. She has soft tea-colored hair. With a name like "rail gun" images of Arnold Schwarzenegger, with an insanely big gun, blasting away the baddies are inspired. Railgun vs Particle beam Thread starter Wboyc; Start date Sep 17, 2017; 1; 2; 3; Next. Railgun has a charge time, but the projectile is very fast, so it's good for sniping. Depending on the environment of course. Au niveau vestimentaire , Accelerator porte au départ un tee-shirt noir à rayures blanches ainsi qu'un pantalon et des chaussures noires. Path of least resistance and all that. All of these are dependent heavily on variables ofcourse such as the enemy craft armor composition and I don't know if the craft themselves would have an effect, but some craft do have damage reductions like the FDL for example. ... Keep in mind the dmg over range decay is much higher on the rail-guns.

A high energy particle beam will cause explosions. Particle Accelerator Capabilities. And using either to damage sensors, point defense, engines, etc.

I'm still new to Elite, and wanted to get some community insight into these two weapons. Now, if you want to make things up, it doesn't matter how they work and either can do whatever you want and this thread is pointless.

It has both input and output delay meaning there will be a delay when switched from an output delay weapon and will give a delay to input delay weapons. While this is a good representation of a railgun, It is a futuristic/laboratory themed weapon with a rarity of legendary, a fast fire rate, medium damage, medium capacity, and low mobility that is obtainable from the Space lucky chest in the form of weapon parts. Energy projectile weapon on fixed mount. If you're firing a gigajoule+ particle cannon in atmo, the radiation would easily kill you yourself quite quickly, if you don't have some pretty potent shielding. It's potentially useful in a vacuum. Thanks for everyone's time.A particle beam weapon, in a vacuum, will on impact with a target have its particles interact violently with the particles of the target, releasing other kinds of particles and photons - for example, it can release hard x-rays in the target if it does not have enough armor to absorb the shot, hard x-rays are bad for electronics, as they can cause random electrical surges in the circuitry and throw off calculations, possibly putting the system in a nonfunctional state.