Kinetics Warfare Doctrine

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Kinetics Warfare Doctrine
Military Science
researchResearch Cost: 2500
Summary
Military planners develop tactics around magnetic weaponry.
Description
The next frontier in space warfare is magnetic weaponry, lending velocity to a round not via combustion, but via electromagnetic acceleration. Even despite there being no air to slow a gunpowder-based bullet's passage, such rounds simply cannot reach the speeds required to effectively punch through an armored hull at great range. Magnetic weapons overcome this limitation (and replace explosive-based rounds with far cheaper, yet potentially larger, solid metal slugs) by 'pushing' their rounds through an electromagnetically-charged barrel, thus imparting far more kinetic energy upon their rounds at the moment of firing. The result is harder-hitting weapons, requiring only an electrical power source to function. With proof of this concept now established, additional breakthroughs in the field of magnetics will enable us to develop powerful, spacecraft-mounted railguns. Ultimately, we also hope to replace metal slugs with energy-based rounds.
Full List of Prerequisites.
Name Type Cost
Mission To Space Space Science 250
Principles of Space Warfare Military Science 1000
Orbital Shipbuilding Material Science 1000
Total researchResearch Cost (including itself)
Energy 0 Information Science 0
Life Science 0 Material Science 1000
Military Science 3500 Social Science 0
Space Science 250 Total 4750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs Projects
Railguns (100%)40mm Autocannon
Quote
"One would not send a swordsman to fight a tank. Neither should we voyage into the unknown armed with only the primitive tools of self-defense we cling to here on Earth."
Director Khalid Al-Ashgar, Project Exodus
From the investment pitch deck for FutureSpace LLC.
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