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by bluGill 167 days ago
The real problem is weapons often have power and weight limitations that don't apply to trains. So you can build large, power hungry prototypes and test them on a train. Once you work out the bugs found there you then start the miniaturization and lower power versions for where you really want it (or save a lot of money by not doing that work for something that you know can't work anyway)