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Originally Posted by malloyd
Is noise suppression even an advantage of EM launchers anyway? .
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All other things being equal yes. A great deal of the noise of chemically powered slugthrowers comes from the propellent gases. Eliminate the gasses you eliminate the noise that comes from them.
Note that is for coil guns rather than railguns. Railguns have a big plasma arc that will probably be of the same order of magnitude as propellent gasses.
Many people seem absolutely convinced that noise from gasses will be replaced by equivalent noise from something else. I see no reason thsi should be true. soem noise and some waste heat from parts conventional guns don't have? Certainly possible but not necessarily of the same order of magnitude.
Just as note, I was putting the big suppressors on conventional mortars. Possibly just as silly as the Nagant "gas-seal" revolver but probably also jsut as possible.