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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Particle Beam Gun
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Date: 18 Oct 89 02:49:51 GMT
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From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Tony Wallis)

cerebus@bucsf.bu.edu (Tim Miller) :
| I rather like the idea brought up by some military s-f writers:  rather
| than a laser or other beam weapons, what about a small pellet moving at
| .7c or some such insane velocity.  They call this type of weapon a
| 'relativistic BB-gun.'
|  Comments?                                       -  Timothy J. Miller

Not in the atmosphere.  The pellet would be vaporized by Mach-1000000
heating before it reached the target. (Or the muzzle of the gun !)