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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin
<shrug> Same way you suppress any large weapon. You use a really large suppressor. It'd be rather inconvenient for the typical muzzleloading mortars.
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Is noise suppression even an advantage of EM launchers anyway? If you want a shot to be silent, it has to be [subsonic] which means range and damage is poor, and worse for the smaller sized projectiles people seem to want gauss weapons to fire. If you are shooting hypersonic needles, they're loud. For that matter waste energy even at the gun can emerge as sound as much as heat, so I'm not convinced even dry firing would be all that quiet.