Hi, i'm studying the US navy Railgun and i was wondering if anyone as an interesting clue about it.
US navy Railgun How does it work ? (technical resources )
Lincoln Gray
Ryan Clark
It uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles. Any other questions?
Aiden Wright
magnets
Leo Foster
Magnets- okay, making magnets, collecting magnets-
Connor Smith
>how does a railgun work
Nigger you fucking serious
If you're not retarded you can build one at home
Fuck out of here
Isaac Miller
monkey boi stfu
Brayden Long
Brayden Carter
>It uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles.
>electromagnets
See the mistake?
Leo Bennett
We quake now?
Carson Green
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Aaron Moore
Wrong board, user
Evan Turner
If you think you can have a serious technical discussion in /k/ I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Carson Scott
Give it back, Artyom.
John Flores
Each Zumwalt class destroyer has a level 5 electromaster on board.
Owen Morales
>AFAIK it uses the Lorentz force generated by the current flowing in the projectile to accelerate it
Jonathan Clark
Doesn't modern ship to ship combat happen with missiles that hit stuff over the horizon?
I doubt that a projectile that doesn't propel itself could outrange such missile. My common sense tells me that in actual symmetric warfare this thing would be useless.
Evan Anderson
Railguns are fucking hipster tier.
The Navy fucked themselves when they didn't pick up Uton's (a company that's desperately trying to re-purpose their technology) combustion light gas gun, which achieved similar speeds with significantly less barrel erosion and more mature technology.
But the DoD basically said "MUH CAPACITORZ" and dropped it. Fucking disgusting.
Kayden Hughes
*Utron's, in case you were planning on searching.
Joshua Carter
Nathan Torres
>he doesnt believe in the magic smoke
Have fun with that obsolete tech lel
Christopher Ramirez
This is my favourite video now.
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>lower cost per kill
Damn, someone actually writing satire couldn't write something as poignant as that. If I could find a sentence to describe the US military, that's it.
Austin Jones
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Chase Martin
The bullets for this gun must be made of a special strong steel, and only steel. This thing can shoot up any modern rockets and any modern planes. But the lack of it is very high power sypply
Andrew Peterson
Cooper Young
Bullets of it can't be made with electronics and navigation inside. But they can be made of thousands small like a coin bullets, that shoot all together.
Christian Evans
another good use for it could be space. if and when we get to shoot eachother in the space ofc.
Adrian Bell
Wouldn't the acceleration be kindof extreme?
Alexander Ortiz
The nasa already uses those for testing impact on satellites and ISS modules. They fire a tiny aluminum projectile at 23,000fps (5.56 out of an AR-15 is around 2500fps and that's already fucking fast) They're like a piston pellet rifles but using a powder charge instead of a spring and using compressed hydrogen. Pretty cool
Eli Baker
isn't that the point? shoot shit fast?
and you can easily make way longer coils than on earth.
Nathaniel Gomez
First of all I thought you meant to shoot stuff into space from earth.
Secondly, the forces would work both ways, using a gun to fire heavy objects in space is a really bad idea, it's far better to simply drop them off and use some sort of on board propellant to drive them, that way you don't end up shaking the entire station when firing.
Luis Peterson
Its like a coil gun but bigger
Julian Gonzalez
but the human eyes can only effectively see 29fps anyways
Jose Lopez
Nice try China
Carson Rivera
and yet billions have been spent developing them for mounting on military vehicles. Clearly very simple.
Caleb Taylor
kek
Jack Ramirez
They are simple, making them efficient is not.
Camden Ross
These really aren't for other ships, they're for shooting down missiles, aircraft, the ISS, and maybe other ships that get too close
Ryan Sullivan
>fps
why is this legal