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This seems to have about the same energy of bullets as some slingshots, and is considerably more expansive and complicated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMu
by ajuc 12y ago
This seems to have about the same energy of bullets as some slingshots, and is considerably more expansive and complicated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMuI634RAYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMuI634RAYI
It also shares some problems - namely the lack of riffling, and the bad accuracy/bullet stability problems over long distances (but it also probably can't shoot with enough energy for it to matter).
I think till we solve batery problem - portable railguns and coilguns will be about as realistic weapons as slingshots.
- darkmighty 12y agoI think the military are already using coilguns but for mortars. With small munitions a very small fraction of the nergy deliverable by the batteries/capacitors is imprinted on the actual projectile -- a lot gets lost on the coils -- and there's not enough time to use a significant amount of energy. With mortars you can use bigger projectiles which have better magnetic properties and a lot more mass (more time to gain kinetic energy).
- desdiv 12y agoI think the military are already using coilguns but for mortars. It's still in early R&D stage unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective): http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA481646 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA481646 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA610358 http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA610358