Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20141213171030/@comment-24142455-20141213184015

Marc, about the heating of the barrel

The railgun (not gatling) could fire well in space, you don't ionise air and fuse the rails when there's no air to ionise, so the railgun, along with being supercooled, can operate far longer and over many more shots without maintenance.

They even become, technically, semi-automatic when used in such circumstances.

NASA is already considering railgun technology as an alternative method of launching supplies into space, although at the moment costs remain prohibitively high.