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Originally posted by seeuathemovies
Alright well, going off of what ShadowXIX said. It is hard to contain the plasma after it leaves the gun because the gas will expand in all directions. I was sitting in astronomy today and we were watching a video over the planets and I had the idea that what if there was a way to model the plasma gun after the planets. First have a iron core and spin the core until it gains a magnetic field (gravity) and either charge the particles of the gas to postive or negative ions. Next, take the gas and and reverse the charge and therefor it will attract to the opposite charge of the iron core. I would go with the magnetic field thing before I tried to spin the iron core fast enough to develop a pull of gravity (or however you make gravity I'm not to sure).
In the early 1990s, the US Air Force was preparing tests at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, designed to lead to a ground-based plasma-weapon in the late 1990s capable of firing plasma bullets at incoming ballistic missile warheads. The enabling technology was a 'fast capacitor bank' called Shiva Star that could store 10 million joules of energy and release it instantaneously. Officials anticipated firing bullets at 3,000km/sec in 1995 and 10,000km/sec - 3% of the speed of light - by the turn of the century. The tests absorbed little more than a few million dollars of annual funding (Jane's Defence Weekly 29 July 1998).