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Note that while most [[Magnetic Weapons|magnetic acceleration weapons]] (railguns) have this kind of structure internally, they do not count. This trope is for energy or gas firing weapons... which could actually be something called a "plasma armature railgun" that's more interested in a plasma beam than using hot plasma to accelerate a projectile...
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* The larger energy weapons in the ''[[Macross]]'' series (and by extension ''[[Robotech]]'') are of this design. Some of the ships of the titular class even used ''the arms of a [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Transforming Mecha|mode]]'' as "prongs".
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** [[Gundam 00|Gundam Virtue]]'s GN Bazooka (pictured) would split and extend for its Full Burst Mode. Later on, the Gadessa sported a three-barrelled variant that could separate the barrels to form a weapon of this type.
*** so is Virtue's later generation, Seravee Gundam, which can launch an [[Energy Ball]].
* The Covenant Plasma Rifle and Plasma Pistol, and the Brute Plasma Rifle from the ''[[Halo]]'' series. As might be expected, their workings have raised quite a bit of speculation but one of the more prominent ones is that the prongs supercharge air molecules between them and accelerate the resulting plasma out with a magnetic field. Better to [[
** The "Seldom explained" bit is justified in that the Covenant have looted the remains of the extinct Forerunner civilization for their technology. The Covenant don't understand how it works because they believe the items to be of holy origin (they worship the Forerunner as gods.) The Humans don't understand how it works because they're not anywhere near advanced enough to have anything like it.
* Haken's [[Hand Cannon]] opens up like this during his [[Limit Break]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga: [[Endless Frontier]]'' Notable in that the actual barrel of the pistol remains between the prongs.
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