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electromagnetic pistol
- Thread starter RabidMoose
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Neat curiosity, I guess. I kind of want to build one just for kicks, but I think I'll let the technology advance a bit.
He claims a muzzle velocity of 33 m/s, which is just over 100 fps. In other words, useless.
He claims a muzzle velocity of 33 m/s, which is just over 100 fps. In other words, useless.
Ya that seems like it's good to annoy people with and leave a welt. Now a Rail gun.... I'm game for that.
I always wanted to make a rail gun style artillery piece. It's not too difficult to do, and you could probably get some pretty awesome velocity and range off 220V house power.
Now what would I do with an electromagnetic artillery piece that relies on 220VAC? No idea.
Now what would I do with an electromagnetic artillery piece that relies on 220VAC? No idea.
CWJones411
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..or better yet- keep neighborhood cats out of your neighbor's yards.
Why? so you can have more moving parts? This thing is entirely solid state. Caseless ammunition firing weapons have by and large been failures... often due to complexity.
What does caseless ammunition get you that a coil gun, that can produce muzzle velocities on par with chemical propellants, cant?
What does caseless ammunition get you that a coil gun, that can produce muzzle velocities on par with chemical propellants, cant?
It gets you a gun that, in my mind, won't set off a metal detector. It was random, but I was wondering if it was even possible.
Maybe a weapon that won't run out of batteries in a gunfight?
Would a coilgun achieve a good spin on the projectile? I could do all kinds of right hand rule thumbpointing, but 6 months in Quantico and 6 months in Pensacola have rotted out both my EMag memory and my Give-a-Damn sense.
Very possible, it's been done before, but as other said before was a failure because of how complicated the mechanics of gun were.
H&K G11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_G11
H&K G11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_&_Koch_G11
Pill_Hacker said:
Rail gun =/= coil gun. I think with a rail gun there is contact between the projectile and the "rails" and electric current is passed directly through the projectile which make it an electromagnet. The coil gun doesn't include any contact with the energized parts of the mechanism. The projectile is already ferromagnetic. I could be way off, but so far that's my understanding.
The idea behind caseless ammunition is that it's smaller and lighter, and it removes the two steps of extraction and ejection and hence simplifying the operating cycle.
The G11's problem wasn't complexity, it was ammunition cooking off. As it turns out the ejected brass carries away a lot of thermal energy (as well as providing some measure of insulation from a hot chamber).