Plasma cannon may refer to:

  • Plasma weapon, a type of raygun that fires a stream, bolt, pulse or toroid of plasma
  • Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature
    • MARAUDER, a United States Air Force Research Laboratory project concerning the development of a coaxial plasma railgun
  • Plasma-powered cannon, an experimental weapon which uses plasma to fire a solid projectile

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