[Spaceships] Conventional and EM Gun ranges in atmosphere?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Realistically, they shouldn't unless they have bullets with different ballistic properties or computed range is comparable to maximum vacuum range (for a 1 km/sec bullet, about 100 km at 1G).

I'm not sure, that would imply that an object will drop its kinetic energy to zero at the same distance regardless of the kinetic energy it had. How would that happen?