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Originally Posted by Tri-ring
One thing about orbital rail guns is that they are inherently in-accurate in targeting since the magnetic field around earth is always at flux interfering the projectile trajectory.
At a distance of three hundred miles going through variances within the earth's magnetic field makes it impossible to accurately target within a kilometer radius.
No good in usage for ground support.
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No. Not even remotely true. For one thing, the projectiles launched from a railgun don't have to be ferromagnetic, they only have to be conductive. A tungsten slug is diamagnetic, meaning it's as magnetic as a piece of wood. Furthermore, even if it was magnetic, it would not be profoundly affected by earth's magnetic field because it's so pathetically weak. The amount of energy required to create a magnetic field that would profoundly affect a hypervelocity ferromagnetic object is ridiculously high especially considering a magnetic field's strength falls off exponentially the further you are from the source.