Modding Convention Proposal: Explosions

[Fanger]

the problem kingraptor is that unless it can still have an enormous amount of heat when it it hits the target it will barely burn away the outer armor before it dissipates rapidly, again it is superheated gas, plasma is even more excited than regular stuff and as such it would have a tendency to rise upwards and expand, so you would have to somehow condence it and contain it as it flys to the target, well the only way to do that is with a magnetic field, but if you have a magnetic field strong enough to be projected a mile and still contain enough plasma to burn through 6 inches of steel, what the hell are you using it to project plasma for.. make a fecking rail gun or just use the field to fling the object your targeting.. putting plasma in a bubble inside a missile again would not be useful.. inside an atmosphere there is nothing to keep the plasma contained unless you bottle it with a magnetic field this means you would just have a vastly expanding cloud of rapidly cooling atoms.. this would have nearly no range and little effect.. and penetration is critical to destroy hard armored targets.. which is why we dont use flamethrowers on tanks..

Essentially what Im saying here is that plasma weapons as portrayed in sci fi, movies or video games will never be useful, maybe as a beam weapon or as a short range heat cutter, but as a glowy energy ball format there IS always something more practical the tech required to make something like that could easily be used to make a more convential slug throwing gun, that would be more than likely superior..