Message from @Paladin308
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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 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
Dude
literally what would they use that for
most private sector research done for that type of weaponry is contracted by the DOD
There are so many private sector use cases
civilian stuff tends to move relatively slowly
Manufacturing processes for one
because that generally costs less and does the same job
well yeah but not that fast
you want instantaneous burst of enough energy to kill some shit
Civilian market stuff develops faster because it's not based on bureaucratic procurement chains
true that aspect is ineffecient