[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;26625627]So is the muzzle flash just friction with the atmosphere?[/QUOTE]
Yes, earlier tests have had the projectile disintegrate in an extraordinary flash.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;26625627]So is the muzzle flash just friction with the atmosphere?[/QUOTE]
It's a sheath of plasma generated by the tungsten when the friction starts to vaporise it.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;26625627]So is the muzzle flash just friction with the atmosphere?[/QUOTE]
That's the electric arc ionizing the air.
:pcgaming:
[QUOTE=bravehat;26625680]Why was this rated dumb?
A totally silent electrical gun than launches chunks of iron, or a battery of massive electromagnets that propels solid blocks of iron and tungsten blocks through an armoured target like a hot knife through butter.[/QUOTE]
They'd both be fucking cool.
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;26623648]So instead of putting more money on NASA, general science research, schools e.t.c, they spend it on finding better ways to bomb the arabs?[/QUOTE]
With large and scary weapons systems we will hardly have to fight wars with Infantrymen in the future. The US is an extremely militaristic nation, understandably.
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;26623648]So instead of putting more money on NASA, general science research, schools e.t.c, they spend it on finding better ways to bomb the arabs?[/QUOTE]
You mean that's a bad way to spend the money?
Well, cool, but stop spending all your money on war.
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METAL GEAR?
[QUOTE=Snapzies;26626373]You mean that's a bad way to spend the money?[/QUOTE]
Yes, that is precisely what I mean.
The current US public education system is shit. NASA and scientific institutions are getting less and less funding. But instead of fixing this, they just keep pumping more money into the military.
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;26624322]Reminded me of this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLpgxry542M[/media]
Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch [b]anywhere[/b].[/QUOTE]
I remember that, isn't there an achievement for listening to it?
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;26623648]So instead of putting more money on NASA, general science research, schools e.t.c, they spend it on finding better ways to bomb the arabs?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States[/url]
The US sure are spending their money wisely :downs:
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;26625656][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mobpTrl7cA[/media][/QUOTE]
A coil-gun is not a rail-gun. In a rail-gun, the projectile itself produces the magnetic field which accelerates it.
Ah the military, advancing the science of killing people ever since World War 1.
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Only a matter of time[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck that is awesome. I'm actually tempted to get out my lego again to build something like that.
Anyway, before I die there had better be handheld railguns
There's been numerous tests for this already.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l9GvZrl-1A[/media]
So this is basically a tactical ICBM?
[QUOTE=paul simon;26626392]Well, cool, but stop spending all your money on war.[/QUOTE]
War drives science.
Better was to find and get to people to kill them in ever more awesome ways has a trickle down effect.
Fuck DARPA gave us the internet after all.
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[QUOTE=tier56;26628692]Ah the military, advancing the science of killing people ever since World War 1.[/QUOTE]
Since forever actually.
I always thought railguns were just spaceship pulse weapons, didn't think they were missiles :/
We can shoot aliens with this!
War (at this point) produces a lot of technology as war is a "worthwhile" drive for developing new tech. Lets face it, in our modern society, very little technology is developed unless it is capable of producing a profit in one way or another, War produces lots of profit for select people, the same select people that can invest.
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[QUOTE=RoBaDoB;26629125]I always thought railguns were just spaceship pulse weapons, didn't think they were missiles :/[/QUOTE]
They are not missiles. (well, they are in a literal sense, but so are bullets)
They use two conductive "rails" to produce an electromagnetic field, and propel a ferromagnetic (or just conductive) projectile down the rails at absurd speeds. Don't know what you mean by "pulse" weapon, but the projectile would get a rather "spacey" look at it moves so fast that it creates plasma behind it.
It's like a really strong catapult.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;26629212]It's like a really strong catapult.[/QUOTE]
Strong enough to punch a great distance into the earth and make a nice little crater.
This has to be deployed to afghanistan as soon as possible to deliver the fear to insurgents.
[QUOTE=bravehat;26629240]Strong enough to punch a great distance into the earth and make a nice little crater.
This has to be deployed to afghanistan as soon as possible to deliver the fear to insurgents.[/QUOTE]
When I'm rich, I'll totally make an orbiting railgun satellite.
[QUOTE=johan_sm;26629212]It's like a really strong catapult.[/QUOTE]
Well, not really. It's more like a gun, actually, but rather than being propelled by an explosion, it's propelled by a magnetic field.
With kinetic destructive devices, they generally impact so hard that they'll create a friction/energy explosion on impact.
Cool lets kill eachother more!
For everyone whining about this money going into research for the railgun-
Railguns are precursors to mass drivers. Mass drivers are a proposed method of propelling things into space. So yes, this contributes to your space exploration wet dreams.
[QUOTE=teh pirate;26629369]For everyone whining about this money going into research for the railgun-
Railguns are precursors to mass drivers. Mass drivers are a proposed method of propelling things into space. So yes, this contributes to your space exploration wet dreams.[/QUOTE]
heh, I was just about to say "they could probably use them to shoot probes into space"
Seems like it would be really useful for that, just shoot it in the general direction of where you want it to go, and you can conserve it's fuel for navigation in space.
[QUOTE=RayDark;26629270]When I'm rich, I'll totally make an orbiting railgun satellite.[/QUOTE]
Well in that case a tungsten rod the size of a telephone pole would be similar to a small nuclear warhead, Rods from God man, rods from god.
[QUOTE=BagMinge104;26623549]I was hoping it would be like a rifle or something you can run around with.[/QUOTE]
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