Pulse Weapon rounds do a great deal of damage on impact, mostly due to the extreme thermal energy of the plasma mass and the speed with which the projectile impacts, which helps ensure that armoured targets are more heavily damaged. Vehicle-mounted Pulse Weapons are usually connected directly to a suitable power source, allowing higher rates of fire with sufficient heat dispersal and eliminating the secondary magazine. It is changed less frequently than the primary power pack, and can be recharged from the firer's suit or combat armour. The power required to generate these immense electromagnetic fields comes from the secondary magazine which is effectively a very powerful and dense rechargeable battery in the weapon's stock. As it is, residual energy and waste plasma, together with the heat produced by energizing the coil, necessitates two barrels to avoid overheating. Without the electromagnetic field, the fired plasma would all dissipate at the barrel mouth, producing a weapon with a range of approximately twenty centimetres. The weight of the bolt also serves to dampen the recoil from firing. Maintenance of the field is also aided by a bolt-like apparatus, which increases the field strength and therefore the range. Though this electromagnetic field continues to keep the plasma together until impact, residual plasma is expelled from the barrel to produce the weapon's considerable muzzle flash. ![]() The solenoid is then charged fully, propelling the newly produced plasma out of the gun at an extreme velocity while keeping it cohesive. On firing, a ferromagnetic, solid slug is chambered from the magazine and turned into plasma by electromagnetic induction, as it would be relatively easy to alternate the coil current at frequencies sufficient enough to heat the coil to an extreme temperature while keeping it in the chamber. In effect, it is a miniature mass accelerator. ![]() The Pulse Rifle works by electromagnetically accelerating a plasma shell down its barrel. A Pulse Rifle is the standard-issue weapon for Fire Warriors, and has a range and damage output that outclasses the standard weapons of every intelligent race the Tau have yet encountered. A Pulse Rifle is the main infantry weapon of the Tau Fire Caste, a Pulse Weapon that utilises pulsed induction fields to propel lethal micro-bursts of plasma over long ranges.
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