and then you are going up against people with vehicle mounted miniguns because they can now easily do that

I think it would just be better to invent a new weapon instead of trying to rework something that is already being used

Cost isn't the significant factor with ammo on that scale

Weight is

and then improve upon the new creation

its guna be a while before powder gets outdone in terms of impulse energy generation

I mean we already use non-powder weps in the military

in terms of cost vs benefit anyhow

well i mean for small arms

afaik thats still mainly smokeless powder of some form

yeah I was gonna say at least stationary ones

but I'm sure they are working for portable versions

shit

they probably already have em

and we don't know about it lol

eh yeah but i mean

its mainly the air force that would have world ending prototypes

some super awesome man portable railgun is more on the very useful category

rather than the

ending the war in fifteen seconds category

As of yet we don't have man portable power systems that can drive rail or coil guns

well as engangered here pointed out

that we know of

mind you

its probably just not deployable if it exists

at this point in time

in terms of like cost

endangered*

The military almost certainly won't be the first to get that kind of power system

genpop is not going to know of any black projects that the military has developed. Civ tech is decades behind classified military tech

it depends on the technology but yeah

They don't do that kind of R&D

they can reach way past the commercial market if they are trying to do one specific thing and have money

they have money

also no they do in fact do plenty of black projects

yeah we have tons of money unaccounted for in the pentagon

The private sector also has money

associated with black projects

The applications for that kind of power system go far beyond military uses

well yeah but the private sector has pretty much no use for 800 joules in 10 nanoseconds

or whatever