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Anonymous
kenetic weapons are a nice idea, you dont need explosives... but, you do need some method of accelerating the projectile. railgun's are the current fashion, the (shown above) dread is a centripital force device that spins metal balls and releases them in a devastative volley. the problem with the railgun, even on a nuke ship they will suck down every bit of power on the ship and still want more, the dread takes ages to spin up and it has to stay spun up to be ready to use... more electricity, so they want to transfer all their weps from explosives (an ak can reputedly be dunked underwater and still be useful) to battery powered weps. the ones being considered for satellites may require (illegal) nuclear power plants or some demi-illegal radioactive battery, essentially we might go to kenetic but it just means electric.
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