[jhayward]

Yah, that's a railgun, but it's not what everyone around CEM called the railgun.

The difference being one between a .50 caliber machine gun and something that can sink a ship from 100km away.

I worked across the street from CEM at the time. Firing the railgun was a big deal. The mechanical stresses on the electrical systems were pretty severe.

The vast proportion of what UT CEM was doing in that era was with the big gun, for Navy and SDI type projects.