Talk:Electromaster/@comment-24.85.140.107-20140528064040/@comment-121.200.7.24-20200226062822

Mikoto's railgun has a muzzle velocity comparable to a regular rifle, and her projectile is very small - similar to a bullet, actually. So with the given statistic of 1,030 m/s, her railgun would do barely anything. It would have less penetration ability than a bullet due to its shape, and have a similar amount of energy behind it. So it is basically inferior to a gun. At such a slow speed, the coin would also probably not melt or ablate after 50 meters.

There would be no issue if the coin was simply stated to travel at a much higher velocity, such as mach 10 (it would still be far, far weaker than a real life railgun since the mass of the coin is so tiny - real railguns fire ~20kg projectiles while coins weigh like, 10 grams).