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The closest thing to a real world plasma beam I can think of at the moment is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster magnetoplasmadynamic thruster], which have exhaust velocities of 15,000 to 60,000 m/s. |
The closest thing to a real world plasma beam I can think of at the moment is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoplasmadynamic_thruster magnetoplasmadynamic thruster], which have exhaust velocities of 15,000 to 60,000 m/s. |
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Latest revision as of 22:30, 27 March 2020
DeadButDreaming wrote: We should stop trying to decide the attack speed of the ballista since we don't know the mass of the argent particles so we don't know how fast they travel when shot. That being said it's probably hypersonic at least.
The closest thing to a real world plasma beam I can think of at the moment is a magnetoplasmadynamic thruster, which have exhaust velocities of 15,000 to 60,000 m/s.
There are plasma railguns like the MARAUDER, but those don't really fit how the Ballista works, given they fire extremely lightweight toroidal pulses of plasma at really high velocities.