Monday 25 March 2013

The science behind the U.S. Plasma "Guns".


Anybody who has been paying even the slightest attention to the most recent news will have heard about the American Plasma Weapons which have been developed and deployed in the deserts of Afghanistan. There has been thousands of blogs trying to figure out how these would work. Plasma, a highly energised form of gas, is able to pass through literally anything- walls, bodies, armour, and as such it is the perfect weapon. However, with these properties people have wondered what kind of barrel can direct the sheer force of the material. In the last three hours a press conference about the weapon has revealed how.

It is an unmanned weapons platform, and it does not need any maintenance. It is dropped from an aircraft, a bomber or a cargo plane with a hatch at the back, whereupon it embeds itself in the ground. By this point the battlefield has had all its soldiers retreated, leaving only guerrillas. A small tower then rises out of the ground and starts emmiting plasma. It has no barrel, it simply strikes plasma out like a Tesla Coil.



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