Answer by Richard Hansen for Multi staged relativistic projectile usable in...
First I want to say something about RailGuns in GeneralOne of the sites you linked to talks about Children of a Dead Earth, which takes a common view of hard-science space combat, so I will talk about...
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The ever handy Atomic Rockets site provides the sorts of details and tables to do the calculations you want, but there are actually several simpler ways to think about these things (before pulling out...
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It looks highly complicated and unpractical.First of all, you are stitching together multiple systems which are supposed to work one after the other, and an old motto among reliability engineers states...
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Following this question, in the exact same settingI'm making a world where sub-FTL interstellar travel is a thing, and so is interstellar war, but for the purpose of this question we'll assume the...
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