Navy's new gun prototype

[pokerandpucks]

http://news.yahoo.com/navy-railgun-test ... 03095.html

It's a rail gun. Instead of using explosive to push it down a barrel, they use a series of electromagnets to pull it down. I want one.

[KaPluie]

Awesome! The rail gun has been a standard textbook elecromagnetics problem for a long time, but there has never really been a practical implementation of it. This looks pretty sweet though. I love the pressure waves when that bolt is bursting through the air in slow motion. I wonder what all the fire and smoke is though. There isn't supposed to be anything combustible in a rail gun.

[thatptkid]

Awesome! The rail gun has been a standard textbook elecromagnets problem for a long time, but there has never really been a practical implementation of it. This looks pretty sweet though. I love the pressure waves when that bolt is bursting through the air in slow motion. I wonder what all the fire and smoke is though. There isn't supposed to be anything combustible in a rail gun.

I wondered this same thing my best guess would just be air combusting because of the extreme heat and pressure generated by this thing.

[Rightwinger]

I've been playing rail guns since quake arena.

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