Kinetics Warfare Doctrine
Kinetics Warfare Doctrine — Terra Invicta technology. Military planners develop tactics around magnetic weaponry.
About Kinetics Warfare Doctrine
Kinetics Warfare Doctrine is a Terra Invicta technology in MilitaryScience with a research cost of 2,500.
Military planners develop tactics around magnetic weaponry.
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.