Rail gun

Autobots gave a rail gun to the humans in the movie.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 2 comics

During her time working for Cobra, Doctor Sidney Biggles-Jones developed a rail gun that was powerful enough to launch its projectiles with so much force that they could still exceed gravitational escape velocity after travelling through several layers of matter. This type of rail gun was installed atop Cobra's HISS tanks, Realignments while the doctor advanced her invention into the portable stages. When the Cobra base was infiltrated by Baroness and Destro, Sidney Biggles-Jones went after them in the hopes of getting a chance to test her hand-held version of the rail gun. She didn't get one, Unfoldings! but an attack by Megatron did allow her to show that alien technology wasn't necessarily better than human technology. Megatron was indeed impressed and agreed to a deal with Cobra Commander. Cobra would receive all the technology stored in the Ark and Megatron would get a new body, designed by Biggles-Jones and equipped with a rail gun, Realignments and unbeknownst to, the brilliant doctor herself. Biggles-Jones didn't trust Cobra, Megatron or both though and had a virus of her design installed in the rail gun's operating system. Megatron discovered it well in time and secretly had it deactivated. Final Transformations

Revenge of the Fallen film

About the only thing S7 did right.

Based on studies of N.B.E.-1 by Sector Seven, the rail gun is an advanced anti-N.B.E. weapon which fires a steel projectile at Mach Seven, currently used only in secret trials by the United States Navy. Revenge of the Fallen

After realizing that Devastator was trying to get to the star harvester inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, former Sector Seven agent Seymour Simmons took a radio from a downed Jordanian helicopter and managed to contact the U.S.S. John C. Stennis. Speaking with Captain Wilder, Simmons informed the Captain of Devastator's presence, and said that the rail gun would be the only weapon capable of taking out Devastator. After Wilder said that the rail gun's existence was classified, Simmons screamed not to talk to him about classified and told him to relay a ready order to the properly equipped ship. Wilder contacted the U.S.S. Kidd and got them linked to Simmons frequency. After Simmons relayed the coordinates, the personnel on the Kidd aimed and fired the rail gun. The weapon struck Devastator and instantly severed his right arm and punched a hole through his head, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the top of the pyramid to his death below. Revenge of the Fallen

In the Revenge of the Fallen novel, the rail gun was located on the Zumwalt, not the Kidd. Additionally, Wilder was captain of the Theodore Roosevelt, not the John C. Stennis. In both the novelization and the comic book adaptation, the rail gun is fired on Devastator as Optimus makes his aerial attack on the pyramid. And no, none of the three versions of the story explain why it wasn't fired on the harvester itself.

Notes

• Megatron's Generation 2 toy bios still call his weapon a fusion cannon despite it being replaced by the rail gun in the comics.
• Rail guns are totally real, and their existence is not at all a secret. A model as advanced as the one in Revenge of the Fallen, let alone Generation 2, is still many years beyond current technology, however.
• The Revenge of the Fallen video game adapted the idea of the rail gun into the Axiom Gun.

External links

• Railgun article on Wikipedia