*★★★ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO ★★★* *1) How did a camera track a projectile at Mach 7* - A lot of people asked this questions, so I did a follow up video showing how it's done - ruclips.net/video/b72ZWM4c94s/видео.html *2) What is the smoke coming out of the railgun* - That is metal on metal contact from the round going down the shaft of the gun, hence why shooting this gun starts tearing apart the barrel. *3) At **0:50** I say "a velocity of 45 hundred mph". But the comparison photo at **1:05** show 5,600mph* - The information in my narration was from my research, the animation in the video was from an older video, I actually did not notice the speed difference in the animation. if I had noticed it during editing I would have fixed it. my mistake. *4) In the video I say “Using only energy as it’s propellant“ people are confused by this as even gun powder is a form of energy* - True, but when I wrote that line in my script it seemed logical to say that energy aka *(electricity)* is it's propellant. it may have been a poor choice of words, but it seemed right at the time when I was writing it. we all make mistakes. I am sure won't be my last :) *5) What a waste of $500 Million, that money could of been used on Schools, Hospitals, Veterans or the homeless* - Yes it could have, but it wasn't, and never will, because the Government will always spend money on the military and Research and Development projects. No matter how much the general public does not like it, no matter who they vote into office, that will always stay the same. You cannot be the most powerful military in the world without spending money on R&D.
Like really, We're basically modernized "Throwing Rock at your enemies" Shoot the missile from plane? Nah, it's just throwing a huge mass on above us. Doesn't know how to throw it in underwater? Submarine throw it with full anti ship missile with no effort. You're crash and doesn't wear a seatbelt? Well, shit got thrown out that's for sure.
You can see why this weapon is such a wet dream for sci-fi gun nerds, especially when it comes to concepts for handheld versions. That's an anti-tank rifle that does damage exclusively with the power of momentum. No fancy metals, no explosives. Just a metal dart or ball that moves extremely fast. That's insane.
Basic laws of physics. With enough velocity, a paint chip can be as destructive as a nuclear weapon. This is the basis for how the weapons work in Mass Effect. In effect, nearly all the Mass Effect guns are various scales of railguns (at least the ones that aren't energy weapons), combined with using a mass-reducing field to minimize the amount of power required to propel the slug (which are each the size of a grain of sand at their largest, which is why there's no conventional reloading in the Mass Effect series).
@@mintos9499 If it were AT light speed it would have enough energy to destroy the whole universe. Infinitely many times. Literally. That’s what makes light speed so impossible.
Ship 100 miles out in the ocean: "Wow it's really nice to be all alone out here, enjoying a nice peaceful day on the ocean without a railgun in sight."
Yeah this guy honestly really didn’t know what he’s talking about lol. He basically just recited a bunch of info you can find on the internet; what’s worse is that he recited some of it incorrectly. The video itself was pretty unoriginal.
@@haggenfar the ones using it, because unlike usual shells where there is literal explosives that could explode when hit, compared to a railguns ammunition which is literally a hunk of metal
Simple fix: Only use the gun at high firing angles and change how powerful it shoots rather than the elevation, resulting in steep dives into the target or, if u miss, into something close to the target. To achieve its maximum range at full power I'm guessing this thing has to fire at a 45 degree angle anyway.
Actually... Ask a Physicist how much kinetic energy that projectile loses mid flight. If you look at the slow-mo there's a 2ft wave-cone trailing behind the projectile. If you take the speed of the projectile before and after 100 miles, and divide by a cone of 2 ft, you get a grenade's worth of energy in that cone every 2-3 feet. And it's not even loss as heat (nothing on thermal videos), that's a grenades worth of energy dissipated as pure shock wave trailing behind that projectile.
These use rotating mirrors to keep the projectiles in focus during slow motion - makes it s lot easier than having to physically move the camera itself!
Phil Capone You’re wrong. Hypersonic is Mach 5+ (roughly 3,860mph+ at sea level), this railgun has a muzzle velocity of 6,700mph (roughly Mach 8.7). This is 100% hypersonic
Mhmmm. Though my biggest question is that since the casing is shed immediately after it leaves the barrel. Would there be a way to fill that casing with a ton of massive shotgun pellets instead? Allowing the railgun to be converted into well a massive shotgun for anti aircraft, or anti riot purposes cause god knows cops are gonna want one.
@@awesomechainsaw I like the idea of an AA shotgun! throwing out a rail-gun velocity cloud of 5# ball bearings in the direction of an incoming plane...can you imagine one or two getting sucked into a jet intake? or perforating a wing? wowsers!
@@just-dl You would have to get around the rate that you can turn the barrel but I just can't stop thinking about if you shot this thing at 45° with bird shot you would have pellets landing in like 20 different counties...........
“Literally tears itself apart”, reminds me of the super cannon the Ottomans used at the siege of Constantinople, that thing blew up after too many uses.
The German super guns of WWI and WWII used shells of increasingly larger diameter because each firing wore out the inner surface of the gun significantly.
@@JosefK2275 They need the metal barrel to induce the electromagnetic field, so for now, replacing it with electromagnetic levitation to hold the ammunition in is still a sci-fi idea.
Just remember this is a general purpose test gun. Covers a broad range of possibilities. Doesn't show you the developed models. And those are insane in capabilities. I just remember 4 kilometers per second limit. Past that and ordinance disintegrates in atmosphere in tests. And the sheer violence the gun goes through. Coil gun would be the solution,and I'm betting they exist already. And are the actual result of this development.
A railgun is much simpler technology than a railgun and a railgun also can produce more power since a direct contact whereas for coil guns, the projectile basically floats. Only problem is "muzzle flash" on the railgun isn't an explosive, it's literally the gun tearing itself apart.
@@Ripa-MorameeCoil guns are actually much better, more efficient and powerful. In theory. If they had this 9 years ago, they 100% have powerful coil guns arleady.
If it had to viable as a space weapon, then we would have to advance to the point, where we start to mine astoroids, as transporting the things needed to built it and a power source to space, would simply cost to much. But it you had an orbital weapon, that worked on kinetic energy projetiles, there are no need for any kind of extreme propellent as in this one, you could just have a ship drop a rod behind it, and on the end of the rod have a small engine to push it in direction of Earth, and some correction engines to hit the target. Way better and cost effeceint space weapon.
@@jamescriscuolo830 I'm thinkin the same too, or they could have it like Reach where there's much smaller Cannons on the planet, still derived as defense platforms
Seriously, the Space Force has to have one of these. Besides, the military is working on a project to launch troops to orbit and deploy them anywhere in the world within two hours. We need a MAC annon to go with our ODSTs.
Just imagine your on some remote island living it up and all of a sudden your house just gets erased from existance by something that was shot like a whole ocean away
Fun fact: that fire and smoke from the barrel is not necessarily from firing the weapon. The projectile is generating so much friction in the air that the air is literally catching on fire.
Technically not "fire" as there is no combustion occurring. It's just compressing the air so quickly and intensely that it ionized the gas around it creating a plasma sheath around the projectile.
"Total cost (of research over a decade) exceeding 500 million dollars." That's...actually quite cheap when you think about it, compared to a certain shitty jet.
"4) What is the smoke coming out of the railgun - That is metal on metal contact from the round going down the shaft of the gun, hence why shooting this gun starts tearing apart the barrel." WD-40?
WD-40 at those temperatures would add a nice glow to the smoke, that is all. The scifi solution to this friction problem is to replace the barrel with magnetic fields. I hear the timing problems are extreme at those speeds, and any timing problem in your mangetic field pulses would be the equivalent of a bent rifle barrel.
@@bramvanduijn8086 yeah I guess you are right- it would be dumb to use lubricant for a piston moving in a berrel because it reaches metal melting Temps due to friction and no lubrication an.... Oh wait isn't that what's been done in internal combustion engines for more than a 100 of years?
You can't use lubricant because the electrical current has to pass through the projectile casing via direct contact between the casing and the rails. If you used lubricant, it would cause excess resistance causing even greater heating and requiring more power to fire for less projectile energy.
While there’s no way to stop the rails from destroying themselves, one potential solution (by no means cost effective) would be to design the charging rails to take as much of the stress from the firing cycle as possible, and be removable, so that the rails can be replaced, potentially mid-combat. The friction force from the shot needs to go somewhere, so if you can isolate the friction and wear to the rails, you have a clear cut component that can be used as a sink and replaced. Obviously, the rails are extremely heavy and in a combat situation would be extremely hot, which is why I think if there was some way to slide the rails out from the end of the barrel and replace them by way of a mechanical crane or some such device, it could extend the service life of the final deployed weapon. Seeing as the rails last about 10 shots, any ship that was armed with this gun even in a more advanced state of development would need to be kitted with an extensive array of equipment and personnel entirely devoted to the gun, similar to the Schweyer-Gustav railway cannon from the Second World War. I am no expert, and I have no way of assessing how such a modification could be achieved as I have no information on the cannon’s design, but I think this may be somewhat plausible.
@@MrShirial Implying all three put together could make it across either ocean. You don't understand the sheer disparity between the US and the entire rest of the world when it comes to military power. In a hypothetical scenario where sheer military capacity was the only thing that mattered the US could actually fight every country on the planet at the same time and win. That's before even considering the nuclear option.
Pretty much anyone in this comment section can say that. I have never lived in an era where science fiction concepts have not been completed and anyone under 51 can say the same thing.
People on youtube already done it, you can do it with supercapacitors and coils, of course this is the simplificated way of explaining it. Search it up on youtube, its more entertaining learning it yourself!
Marcel Rodriguez The Convenant don't like MAC rounds. The Arbiter don't like MAC rounds. The Prophet of the Truth don't like MAC rounds. But the UNSC like MAC rounds
My friend: "So, how do railguns work? What does a gun have to do with rails?" Me: "It's like this: when you shoot sometone wit' a railgun, a pair of train tracks appear underneath him with a signal and everything, and suddenly a big-ass intercity train comes and smashes him to bits!" My friend: "...you must be pulling my leg..."
Hello Wonder World, since no one has answered the "What Happened in One Piece 1039" question i guess i'll try to myself: To sum up the current One Piece Arc & Chapter to a non-fan (i'm assuming) some characters are facing off against 2 of "The 4 Emperors", kings of the sea that have ruled for decades, the pirates Eustass Kid & Trafalgar Law faced the Emperor "Big Mom", and in short words both Kid & Law showed off some crazy attacks, Kid delivered the final blow with his "Damned Punk" which is a Railgun he created using his Magnetic Power.
andy chauhan clearly you didn’t get the joke. It’s from command and conquer there’s a tank called the mammoth tank and it is equipped with 2 rail guns.
smeghead666 Its still useful research. There will be advancements in technology and they will trickle down to civilian technology some time in the future.
WoW featuring WW II Warships, or were being built at war's end like the USS Midway! _Looks at Russian warship build dates._ 1955!? I thought you said WW2 Warships!?
@@EdoSetyo The $64,000 question is: Did they add decade later ships to be OP... or is that what it took for the Russian NAVY to fight on a level playing field?
At 0:40, the direction of the electromagnetic field along the sliding metal armature is in the wrong direction. Relative to the viewer's point of view, it should be clockwise, not counterclockwise, in order to satisfy Lenz's Law.
All these know-it-alls : "you said it uses energy, everything that moves uses energy", if you watch the video and quit being a smartass he clearly states it uses ELECTRICAL ENERGY AS OPPOSED TO CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL PROPELLANTS
@@axxjazz. she could control magnetic feilds so that's enough to explain how she can be a railgun, but Accelerators Vector control is more OP he could just Change the vector of the coin
Hollywood is used to condition the public decades in advance. I remember watching them talk about the rail gun as science fiction on an entertainment tonight segment for the release of that film, we all said "yeah right, they definitely have that shit hidden somewhere"
The concepts of electromagnetic guns have existed since the beginning of the 20th century with the first ever patent for such a weapon being in 1904. Even Nikola Tesla had his own proposed version of such a weapon back in the 1930's. In other words railguns as a concept predate Hollywood movies.
ship captain: our railgun is the most accurate and devastating weapon ever. after few shots: our guns are so devastating we need to head back to our base for barrel replacement
Rapi if you hit someone he probably wouldn't notice because it happens so fast. But the real problem is that they don't allow metal projectile otherwise you be fine
This is one of the most powerful gun ever designed. Developed in France the first time during 1918, thig gun can launch a projectile to Mach 7 at a range around 200km. Americans: we can't spend more over this project, it's unrealistic. Chinese: we have already made functional prototypes, we're going to produce the final mass-producing version of it. When the difference between success and failure is a matter of money and who have more decide to fail no matter what. I feel pity for the American engineers that are exploited by corporations and discredited by the American armed forces. 😑 They deserve definitely more credits for their work, and more money to finish it. As Furlan, there's no things that upset me more than an unfinished work.
The railgun is pretty cool and even more cool that the navy was able to build a full scale working one. But the technology still needs some break throughs that are simply not there yet. One of the biggest problems is the barrel starts to get micro fractures and can't take the stress for very long.
I think they'll eventually find a way to use an electromagnetic field to float the sabot in a way that it never touches the barrel of the gun. A modification of mag-lev train technology might be the solution. It would give nearly friction-less operation; which should extend the life of the gun significantly.
The projectile has to make contact with both rails for the lorenz force to be generated, otherwise there is no place for the energy to flow. The lorenz force is generated by the SABOT which you see gets ejected with the projectile.
It's not a rail gun if the projectile/sabot isn't touching the rails. Current must flow from one rail via the projectile to the other. The induced magnetic fields are what propels the projectile. I guess you are thinking about gauss guns, which kind of work like linear particle accelerators. Gauss guns are not rail guns. Granted, terminology tends to get mixed up in sci fi. Generally: two parallel rails -> rail gun. Stack of donut-shaped electromagnets -> gauss gun. (if gauss gun is the correct term...)
@@MikeSmith-vb8ul that's not how it works but ok. The idea is use the taxes we already pay to fund everything we need, so you pay for your's and other's wellbeing.
@@luciofurlan696 Except that is how it works. Your taxes will just get squandered and only the most basic care will be "freely available". And in the US, even the most basic care is already pretty expensive -- so the notion of "free healthcare" here is *an even bigger joke* XD lol
Except that the US hasn't installed any workable railguns on ships, a manga/anime/light novel is an inconsequential work of fiction, 40mm, if SK can even do this, does not solve the weapon's fundamental issues, and developing the same type of weapon is not the same as copying. And no, your comment certainly didn't seem like a joke, more like the same old lazy "China can't innovate" meme.
God no dude... I think he is going off of what Russia did the last time the US made a super weapon, which was to make an even stronger version of it (hydrogen bomb)
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*★★★ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO ★★★*
*1) How did a camera track a projectile at Mach 7* - A lot of people asked this questions, so I did a follow up video showing how it's done - ruclips.net/video/b72ZWM4c94s/видео.html
*2) What is the smoke coming out of the railgun* - That is metal on metal contact from the round going down the shaft of the gun, hence why shooting this gun starts tearing apart the barrel.
*3) At **0:50** I say "a velocity of 45 hundred mph". But the comparison photo at **1:05** show 5,600mph* - The information in my narration was from my research, the animation in the video was from an older video, I actually did not notice the speed difference in the animation. if I had noticed it during editing I would have fixed it. my mistake.
*4) In the video I say “Using only energy as it’s propellant“ people are confused by this as even gun powder is a form of energy* - True, but when I wrote that line in my script it seemed logical to say that energy aka *(electricity)* is it's propellant. it may have been a poor choice of words, but it seemed right at the time when I was writing it. we all make mistakes. I am sure won't be my last :)
*5) What a waste of $500 Million, that money could of been used on Schools, Hospitals, Veterans or the homeless* - Yes it could have, but it wasn't, and never will, because the Government will always spend money on the military and Research and Development projects. No matter how much the general public does not like it, no matter who they vote into office, that will always stay the same. You cannot be the most powerful military in the world without spending money on R&D.
Anyone know (if it is publicly known at all) of percentage efficiency..?
The one stat that matters me thinks 🤔
Jesus is the only way to heaven ✝️
What's even better is the soviet bear
Mmmmm no its not pneumatic, it uses the electric current as a magnet to propel the projectile, pulling it rather than pushing it
I think that you stole the idea of Hitler for this weapon
This just proves that we haven't really evolved out of throwing stones at each other.
We just became really good at it.
I... I just love this comment
Like really, We're basically modernized "Throwing Rock at your enemies"
Shoot the missile from plane? Nah, it's just throwing a huge mass on above us.
Doesn't know how to throw it in underwater? Submarine throw it with full anti ship missile with no effort.
You're crash and doesn't wear a seatbelt? Well, shit got thrown out that's for sure.
This is literally the definition of evolution what are you talking about?
The essence stays the same, just the technology has changed
Well we have laser guns
40000 bc: man throws stone
2020 ad: man throws stone faster
Fire cracker added*
I like man throws stone really, REALLY hard
Man makes stone throwing stone
@@peanutgallery5427 hehe boy
😂😂😂
"Ripping a hole through whatever it was aimed at"
*aims it at a hole*
Wait that's illegal...
He's too powerfull to be kept alive!
Bow chicka bow wow
It was ripping shit out of dark matter 👍😂
*accidentally creates black hole*
So powerful it rips a hole inside a hole
You can see why this weapon is such a wet dream for sci-fi gun nerds, especially when it comes to concepts for handheld versions. That's an anti-tank rifle that does damage exclusively with the power of momentum. No fancy metals, no explosives. Just a metal dart or ball that moves extremely fast. That's insane.
Basic laws of physics. With enough velocity, a paint chip can be as destructive as a nuclear weapon.
This is the basis for how the weapons work in Mass Effect. In effect, nearly all the Mass Effect guns are various scales of railguns (at least the ones that aren't energy weapons), combined with using a mass-reducing field to minimize the amount of power required to propel the slug (which are each the size of a grain of sand at their largest, which is why there's no conventional reloading in the Mass Effect series).
If a piece of sand went to earth at light speed it’s like setting off a nuke
reject fancy ammo, return to powered barrel
@@mintos9499 If it were AT light speed it would have enough energy to destroy the whole universe. Infinitely many times. Literally. That’s what makes light speed so impossible.
@@jasonbarr819 it wouldn’t have enough energy to fully destroy the earth
"With only energy as its propellant"
I know what you're saying; but that's the description of everything that has and will ever move ever...
Frowlinian I think he means kinetic or magnetic energy, not explosive energy
@@Bevsworld04 he means electrical energy
Kann mir einer erklären wo der qualm herkommt beim schiessen.
@@noctisumbra2749 that's what I'm thinking, rather than an actual propellant. Just thought it was kinda funny to me the way it was worded.
Flycatcher wee wee baguette
Ship 100 miles out in the ocean: "Wow it's really nice to be all alone out here, enjoying a nice peaceful day on the ocean without a railgun in sight."
If I got hit from 100 miles away I'd just be upset.
Not that I'm dead, just at the actual fact that they were 100 miles away
@@ShriKaav it’s the fact you never even had the chance
Ascending to heaven: "fucking bullshit hackers and their aimbots!"
lmao
God is really just an admin
"Most powerful railgun they're allowed to show us"
Ahhh, has ur mum been talking about me again.
Canada has better
@@TheELITEDEVON yeah right
They cant show the Neo armstrong cyclone jet armstrong cannon, its too powerful
@@neoaoki3451 Is that a Gintama reference?!
Can we talk about that insane camera for a second? Tracked the projectile through the air at mach 7 perfectly smooth with extreme slow motion?
Hey, it's the military. They probably have cameras that record light or pc's that uh.. idk
It's interesting how they do this actually. Using a rotating mirror
perhaps it was a large frame, and digitally panned
@@Stoneman39488 They already recorded the speed of light.
That projectile speed was warping there. 1:11 That is insane to capture. 😳
"The greatest advantage of an EM railgun... is the safety aspect"...
That's definitely "not" what the guys on the opposing end of that cannon said.
Fair point.
Well, I imagine they don't have a lot to say being on the other end of the cannon.
The projectile is more blessed to give than receive.
Yeah this guy honestly really didn’t know what he’s talking about lol. He basically just recited a bunch of info you can find on the internet; what’s worse is that he recited some of it incorrectly. The video itself was pretty unoriginal.
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"The greatest advantage of an EM railgun... is the safety aspect"
As it literally vaporizes its internals on use
Safe for who? Haha
@@haggenfar the ones using it, because unlike usual shells where there is literal explosives that could explode when hit, compared to a railguns ammunition which is literally a hunk of metal
@Robert Rasmussen try saying useless when it turns you into pink mist.
@@jace8785 woooshh
When you miss the target your aiming for and end up hitting something 2 country’s away
you’re p
Simple fix: Only use the gun at high firing angles and change how powerful it shoots rather than the elevation, resulting in steep dives into the target or, if u miss, into something close to the target. To achieve its maximum range at full power I'm guessing this thing has to fire at a 45 degree angle anyway.
@@DualDesertEagle sure
GET READY AMERICA
Actually... Ask a Physicist how much kinetic energy that projectile loses mid flight. If you look at the slow-mo there's a 2ft wave-cone trailing behind the projectile. If you take the speed of the projectile before and after 100 miles, and divide by a cone of 2 ft, you get a grenade's worth of energy in that cone every 2-3 feet. And it's not even loss as heat (nothing on thermal videos), that's a grenades worth of energy dissipated as pure shock wave trailing behind that projectile.
@The New NKVD Who gives a shit
That one Japanese kid with a coin: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power
Misaka mikoto
@@whatwhatwhatwhat4408 a certain scientific railgun reference huh? I hated the omniman reference though.
I come for this
@@hassanabbas5926 Omniman?
I just thinking that this comment will here
The camera systems that track/record these supersonic or even hypersonic projectiles is impressive.
These use rotating mirrors to keep the projectiles in focus during slow motion - makes it s lot easier than having to physically move the camera itself!
Supersonic yes, hypersonic no, not even close.
@@philcapone2859 anything above Mach 3 is Hypersonic & that projectile leaves the barrel at Mach 7.5 & hits it target at Mach 5
@@JohnH20111 Hypersonic is Mach 5 and Upwards bro, also wouldn't they have declared this weapon as hypersonic if it could achieve that?
Phil Capone You’re wrong. Hypersonic is Mach 5+ (roughly 3,860mph+ at sea level), this railgun has a muzzle velocity of 6,700mph (roughly Mach 8.7). This is 100% hypersonic
imagine being a fish just doing fish shit and then all of a sudden a projectile from two oceans away just obliterates you.
God I think about that every day
Sick.
Imagine being the seagull that shat on the generals car then thaught the island in the distance was refuge.
eees gonna get turned into plasma.
I love imagining the captain of a ship being *that* spiteful
Thinkin about all that fish stuff I'd love to be doing. But too worried about railguns.
"MAC rounds? In atmosphere?"
"It's one way to get their attention."
Hang on to your teeth people
Hell, tell me this is not happening
I read this in his voice, damn that was an incredible game
Source?
@@komiks42 halo reach
“Those can put a round clean through a Covenant ship.”
-Sgt.Johnson
awwww, an eco friendly death machine!
Eco friendly? It uses TONS of electricity.
@@kosmas173 So? You just need a shitload of solar cells, and a good supply of wind turbines ... :laugh:
@@OriginalGriff
*cough* Nuclear power *cough*
@@OriginalGriff Actually, you only need a certain scientific railgun. ;)
They’re just looking out for the environment while killing those commies
Make the barrels out of old Nokia phones and it should be good to go.
What do you think their using for ammo
Dokterjack an older Nokia phone obviously
A 3310 would be suit to destroy a warship, indeed.
Those would be rails..
Why, Nokia just used to break all the time?
"Develop a railgun that uses less power"
That's not very American of you.
Why not just develop an automatic railgun instead?
@@snowman2635 ask bae systems why they didn't do that
How about a railgun that uses so much power that it doesn't NEED to be put on a ship, it can shoot from a single location and hit anything
@@itskoby woah
@@itskoby Might as well blow up entire continents with that much kinetic energy.
finally a video that explains it concisely without screaming in your ears for 10 minutes, ty :)
The best aspect is actually the fact that the ammo is about a billion times cheaper to make than conventional projectiles.
I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate!!
Mhmmm. Though my biggest question is that since the casing is shed immediately after it leaves the barrel. Would there be a way to fill that casing with a ton of massive shotgun pellets instead? Allowing the railgun to be converted into well a massive shotgun for anti aircraft, or anti riot purposes cause god knows cops are gonna want one.
@@awesomechainsaw I like the idea of an AA shotgun! throwing out a rail-gun velocity cloud of 5# ball bearings in the direction of an incoming plane...can you imagine one or two getting sucked into a jet intake? or perforating a wing? wowsers!
The gun itself, on the other hand...
@@just-dl You would have to get around the rate that you can turn the barrel but I just can't stop thinking about if you shot this thing at 45° with bird shot you would have pellets landing in like 20 different counties...........
“Lieutenant! Get aboard! We have to get the hell out of here!”
“Negative. I have the gun, good luck sir.”
“Good luck to you spartan.”
69 likes, make a wish!
69th like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
THIS IS SPARTA!
rest in peace six, thanks for your sacrifice
420 likes
Nice
“Literally tears itself apart”, reminds me of the super cannon the Ottomans used at the siege of Constantinople, that thing blew up after too many uses.
The German super guns of WWI and WWII used shells of increasingly larger diameter because each firing wore out the inner surface of the gun significantly.
@@jmchez doesnt matter if the gun stops firing after the enemy is already dead is their reasoning I presume.
the cannon could just float in there using magnets or some type of electromagnetic design.
@@JosefK2275 ODP like from Halo
@@JosefK2275 They need the metal barrel to induce the electromagnetic field, so for now, replacing it with electromagnetic levitation to hold the ammunition in is still a sci-fi idea.
Superconductors are definitely in the future of practical railguns.
Not gonna lie, these Railguns are an excuse for battleships to make a comeback, massive warships dedicated to railgun use.
Bandit and if they make a portable one like a sniper rifle anti tank rifles will make a comeback as well
@@Meme-o-Taur unlikely unless fallout fusion cores are invented. Modern batteries suck.
Δeltα xbox yeah I know with current technology it probably better to use a slingshot than a portable railgun
They should bring back the F14 (upgraded) before they bring back a BB
@@Meme-o-Taur Especially something that Joerg came up with
2:56 Looks like a low-poly model you’d see in the background of a video game.
Lmao yeah
Fallout 2 loading screen lookin shit
Its the tesla cyberboat
@@Dr.Slime_ lmao 😂
Goldeneye 64 Frigate
The real question is...
How many lemon batteries would it take to fire this thing at full power at least once?
or potato batteries
100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000trillion lemon batteries
@@lazydino2264 That explains why all those Sci-Fi ships are so big
They need all that space for the lemons.
I’ve got one that uses hamsters in a wheel.
arcanum players spotted
Just remember this is a general purpose test gun.
Covers a broad range of possibilities.
Doesn't show you the developed models.
And those are insane in capabilities.
I just remember 4 kilometers per second limit.
Past that and ordinance disintegrates in atmosphere in tests.
And the sheer violence the gun goes through.
Coil gun would be the solution,and I'm betting they exist already.
And are the actual result of this development.
A railgun is much simpler technology than a railgun and a railgun also can produce more power since a direct contact whereas for coil guns, the projectile basically floats. Only problem is "muzzle flash" on the railgun isn't an explosive, it's literally the gun tearing itself apart.
@@Ripa-MorameeCoil guns are actually much better, more efficient and powerful. In theory. If they had this 9 years ago, they 100% have powerful coil guns arleady.
That ship literally looks like it’s texture is missing
Looked like a mid 90's CG animation
Lmao yeah, but that works with advantage, it’s angled like that to deflect most bullets and radar
No really i thought it was bad CGI
@@harlow7895 it also confuses people, bc it's harder to know exactly where the ship is facing when seen from a far distance
How does it account for the curvature of the earth?
If the ships have flex tape.. the rail gun has no chance..
U right man
If the railgun has flextape, the ship has no chance
To show you the power of flex seal! I'm going to repair this destroyer shot with an electro magnetic railgun!
@@swedishpikedayz8251 THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE
Corzappy the ship has no chance anyway lmao
Big Mom is eating this now
Sorry, NAVY.
This one's got SPACE FORCE written all over it.
Why put it on a ship when you could put it on a SHIP.
I’m thinking the orbital macs from halo lol, this has that written all over it
@@jamescriscuolo830 same I was thinking of the frigates aswell during the video
If it had to viable as a space weapon, then we would have to advance to the point, where we start to mine astoroids, as transporting the things needed to built it and a power source to space, would simply cost to much. But it you had an orbital weapon, that worked on kinetic energy projetiles, there are no need for any kind of extreme propellent as in this one, you could just have a ship drop a rod behind it, and on the end of the rod have a small engine to push it in direction of Earth, and some correction engines to hit the target. Way better and cost effeceint space weapon.
@@jamescriscuolo830 I'm thinkin the same too, or they could have it like Reach where there's much smaller Cannons on the planet, still derived as defense platforms
Seriously, the Space Force has to have one of these. Besides, the military is working on a project to launch troops to orbit and deploy them anywhere in the world within two hours. We need a MAC annon to go with our ODSTs.
Can I buy it for concealed carry?
people have made small rifle railguns, i guess you could make a pistol railgun, but you would probably need a battery backpack
Tony J have you quarrelled with your mother-in-law?
Tony J yeah if your american you can hide it in your fat stomach
Unkept Northern Bloke lmao take a look in the mirror slag look at ur country
The recoil would blow a man off his or her feet coil guns are better
"using only energy as its propellent"
Newtonians: duh
Umm so does every single weapon XD
@@gjumper9871 ....
@@gjumper9871 well everything is energy so..
@@mr.j1003 Yes, he uses energy as opposed to chemicals/fuel, makes sense. I've always thought of chemical energy as energy, but whateves
Yeah, it wasn't the best wording. Should have just said electricity, or magnetism.
Railgun in America: well this is wholesome, what an Amazing invention.
Railgun in Japan: Yamete Kudasai.
>///
An amazing invention they discontinued in favor of other weapons sadly...
This is the equivalent of “how dead do you want your target?”
I say overkill?
'yes'
@@mashable8759 was about to write that aswell
hole dead
Mission accomplished. 100%
Just imagine your on some remote island living it up and all of a sudden your house just gets erased from existance by something that was shot like a whole ocean away
Can relate 😔
give weapon_gauss
@@Xamyak-ld2nk you forgot to do sv_cheats 1
give weapon_gauss
@@ishthefish1st what
This is the exact equivalent of “he aint dead enough yet”
Well, I mean they are shooting through feet of armour.
@@peanutgallery5427 The typical battleship has 3 hulls each about 1/2 thick, so no.
@@Hunter-gw9vg You saw the numbers of thickness of those steel plates the projectile was penetration though, right?
Fun fact: that fire and smoke from the barrel is not necessarily from firing the weapon. The projectile is generating so much friction in the air that the air is literally catching on fire.
Thank you, I was hoping someone would explain why does it "fire" if there's no traditional powder in it
Technically not "fire" as there is no combustion occurring. It's just compressing the air so quickly and intensely that it ionized the gas around it creating a plasma sheath around the projectile.
@@zbubby1202 Good answer, I like that 👍🏻
there is always harvard phd's among us in the youtube comment sections 😂
"I need to get me one of these for home defense"
- Texans (probably) 😂
Can confirm. am texan. have railgun.
Gotta protect ma family I need a rail gun - Texan
I'll take two please.
Gotta be prepared incase an enemy ship enters your AO
Confirmed.
"Total cost (of research over a decade) exceeding 500 million dollars."
That's...actually quite cheap when you think about it, compared to a certain shitty jet.
what kind of jet
*B U R N*
Yeah, the problem is if this can be mass produced and the amount of energy it consumes to fire
Lookin at you, F35
I mean nuclear bombs are millions of times more powerful
"4) What is the smoke coming out of the railgun - That is metal on metal contact from the round going down the shaft of the gun, hence why shooting this gun starts tearing apart the barrel."
WD-40?
WD-40 at those temperatures would add a nice glow to the smoke, that is all. The scifi solution to this friction problem is to replace the barrel with magnetic fields. I hear the timing problems are extreme at those speeds, and any timing problem in your mangetic field pulses would be the equivalent of a bent rifle barrel.
@@bramvanduijn8086 yeah I guess you are right- it would be dumb to use lubricant for a piston moving in a berrel because it reaches metal melting Temps due to friction and no lubrication an.... Oh wait isn't that what's been done in internal combustion engines for more than a 100 of years?
@@vygag If the piston in your engine is moving at mach 6 you would be deaf. Also, it would make your engine explode.
You can't use lubricant because the electrical current has to pass through the projectile casing via direct contact between the casing and the rails. If you used lubricant, it would cause excess resistance causing even greater heating and requiring more power to fire for less projectile energy.
@@vygag Something tells me the engineers who made this considered lubricant...
While there’s no way to stop the rails from destroying themselves, one potential solution (by no means cost effective) would be to design the charging rails to take as much of the stress from the firing cycle as possible, and be removable, so that the rails can be replaced, potentially mid-combat. The friction force from the shot needs to go somewhere, so if you can isolate the friction and wear to the rails, you have a clear cut component that can be used as a sink and replaced. Obviously, the rails are extremely heavy and in a combat situation would be extremely hot, which is why I think if there was some way to slide the rails out from the end of the barrel and replace them by way of a mechanical crane or some such device, it could extend the service life of the final deployed weapon. Seeing as the rails last about 10 shots, any ship that was armed with this gun even in a more advanced state of development would need to be kitted with an extensive array of equipment and personnel entirely devoted to the gun, similar to the Schweyer-Gustav railway cannon from the Second World War. I am no expert, and I have no way of assessing how such a modification could be achieved as I have no information on the cannon’s design, but I think this may be somewhat plausible.
Dear Santa....
I want an 18 inch dildo for Christmas
Not So Anonymous lmao
Lmao = Laughing my anti-aircraft off
Not So Anonymous launching my anti-air outward
Ryan M. Fp
misaka mikoto looking different than i remember
Nice
Lol
china enter the group.
china: ok i will duplicate that 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@pakonektv5979 w h a t
@@pakonektv5979 explain
Is this nail gun available at home depot now ??
Honestly everything you need to make one is there
Omar Garcia no I think that’s only at best buy
Walmart have a few left...
Only 999,999,999 million and 95 cents at your nearest military testing facility.
Make sure you're authorised though.
Stopped and given up 2 years ago by the US Navy !! Semper Fi
Imagine a 21st century battleship with 9 of these bad boys in 3 turrets lol
You would need a power plant for each ship.
Meh. I want cool lasers.
@@casewhite-954 Railguns that shoot laser cannons
@@Red_Salmond Today's aircraft carriers have nuclear reactors in them so thats not to far off
@@PvPMasterX i tried imagine that, it caused severe mental damage seeing a laser cannon flying at mach 7.5
If this is the cool shit they're allowing us to see, imagine the even cooler shit we cant see.
awwww, an eco friendly death machine!
Hope it's still cool while it kills and destroys entire countries
@@mioali3674 as long as we have it
This was developed back in late 90’s and just implemented when I was retired from service in 2018 with the DDG 1000’s
@@queenkale3027 it shoots toothpicks instead of bullets
Home defense
When the bad guy is threatening your family from across the Atlantic ocean c:
Sounds like US foreign policy
Then traitormurica would be invaded by nato, russia and china
@@MrShirial
Implying all three put together could make it across either ocean. You don't understand the sheer disparity between the US and the entire rest of the world when it comes to military power. In a hypothetical scenario where sheer military capacity was the only thing that mattered the US could actually fight every country on the planet at the same time and win.
That's before even considering the nuclear option.
I think you mean PACIFIC ocean, and I think you mean CHINA
@@The_Crimson_Fucker lol nope traitormurica cant fight every country in the world
Every time this fires I just imagine a soldier saying "CEASE"
We live in a time where we can say: "Yeah remember this from science-fiction? It's reality now."
Remember Light Saber ??
Yeah some dude already made one that works exactly like on the sci fi movie
Pretty much anyone in this comment section can say that. I have never lived in an era where science fiction concepts have not been completed and anyone under 51 can say the same thing.
@@throttlebrah Wasn't that just a big plasma cutter? It's not like you could bang two of them together in a sword fight.
@@ALifeOfWine hey, at least it was close, right ??
@@ALifeOfWine they made 3 light sabers, one that is retractable the other 2 are realy hot metal rods
now if they can compact it so we can get a halo railgun
Patrick S
Unrealistick the gun needs both a shit ton of coolant for the magnets and a shit ton of power to fire
People on youtube already done it, you can do it with supercapacitors and coils, of course this is the simplificated way of explaining it. Search it up on youtube, its more entertaining learning it yourself!
Patrick S technically we can do the big macs though, although i think firing a 3000 ton tungsten slug at 20% lightspeed is a bit far off.
Marcel Rodriguez The Convenant don't like MAC rounds. The Arbiter don't like MAC rounds. The Prophet of the Truth don't like MAC rounds. But the UNSC like MAC rounds
Ritchy Vampaire Bloodriver lol yea meanwhile the forerunners laugh at the puny mac rounds lol
Normal people: War never change
Weebs: good now do it with a coin using your fingers...
biribiri
@Bubba It's no longer about nations, ideologies, or ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by mercenaries and machines
That's a bloody good anime
coin using your vag
Or your booty
My friend: "So, how do railguns work? What does a gun have to do with rails?"
Me: "It's like this: when you shoot sometone wit' a railgun, a pair of train tracks appear underneath him with a signal and everything, and suddenly a big-ass intercity train comes and smashes him to bits!"
My friend: "...you must be pulling my leg..."
That damn uncatchable mouse has no chance once I get one of these.
Stuart Little will be evading his taxes no more
www.GPcarAudio.com
That damn uncatchable mouse has no chance once I get one of these.
'
hi G P A...
oh i like to listen the deadmau5 music
That road runner is done for too!
EMP-resistant?
That will show that spider.
Damn the projectile is fast but the cameraman running alongside it and filming is just built different I guess
lmao, but its probably a camera pointing at a mirror controlled by a computer
@@hgplaying5629 r/woosh
@@hgplaying5629 You missed the joke entirely buddy
@@shadowkillz9606 No i didnt
Murked
0:17 "Using only energy as propellant."
Nonsensical if you think about it.
lol you're right any gun or cannons use energy as propellant
Yeah this is just a big shitty electrical gun. We want a fucking laser cannon.
For those that do not understand physics, his comment was hilarious.
@@areyoujelton There already are those and in use too.
true. No shoot without energy.
Imagine playing arrow roulette like in grown ups with this bad boy
-How is this hi tech weapon powered?
-taxe...lectricity!
*slaps roof of the railgun*
"this bad boy can fit so many MW's in it"
@nerf triple Megawatts i think
@nerf triple its a megawatt
Nokia* phones in it
"Their most powerful cannon"
You mean "Their most powerful public cannon"
I see what you did there
if factoring in explosive rounds, the most powerful naval gun will still be the nuke rounds designed for iowa class guns.
@@711jastin well it would not take out a whole enemy fleet and the fallout would relatively small compared to operation crossroads
*area 51 intensifies
It's the most powerful laboratory toy. Unless a weapon has been taking into the field of battle I don't count it as real.
Hello Wonder World, since no one has answered the "What Happened in One Piece 1039" question i guess i'll try to myself:
To sum up the current One Piece Arc & Chapter to a non-fan (i'm assuming) some characters are facing off against 2 of "The 4 Emperors", kings of the sea that have ruled for decades, the pirates Eustass Kid & Trafalgar Law faced the Emperor "Big Mom", and in short words both Kid & Law showed off some crazy attacks, Kid delivered the final blow with his "Damned Punk" which is a Railgun he created using his Magnetic Power.
Thanks for that mate
The truth Railgun is Misaka Mikoto
us: we have the most powerful railgun
misaka: hold my coin
Weebs are everywere lol wait i forgot....
Death comes to all oh look a rude edgelord
That means kamijo is pretty strong
look at them with their anime pic xD
Stick two of these bad bois on a tank and we got ourselves a mammoth tank!
LegendaryURZU 7 that was the idea for the landkreuzer p.1500 monster.
And where would you stick the accompanying powerplant?
andy chauhan clearly you didn’t get the joke. It’s from command and conquer there’s a tank called the mammoth tank and it is equipped with 2 rail guns.
@@andychauhan6544 nope the landkreuzer was going to have a turret from the Bismarck not a railgun
@@andychauhan6544 in a fusion core, duh. just go find one in a suit of power armor
Attack on Titan would've turned out rather differently with these on top of the walls
(Colossal Titan appears)
Rail gun-bang
Credits roll
@@maxvickers6196 Lmao Skip to season 4
@@seomahazuri8999 just make a bigger railgun with an explosive warhead
@@theprincipalityofbelka4646 imagine the cart titan with this thing
Or an AC130 patrolling above.
Imagine if the US spent even one quarter of its military budget on healthcare and helping homeless ppl. Man they'd be yrs ahead of everyone
32 mega juuls? The FDA will not be happy
Chase Collins 👑
mega juuls lmfao
*laughs in misaka mikoto
the EPA won't be happy either-- exceeds tier4 emissions!
The the high military owns this
So who can stop them
Me:
RUclips: wanna see a big ass electric gun?
Me: meh, why not?
Veri funi original comment
I Know a teen girl who can do this with a coin
Onee-sama???
@@estherr4637 😂😂
This is exactly the comment I was looking for
It'll be funny if they develop an accelerator weapon
LoL the weebs are everywhere, so proud of them.
Eustass Kid brought me here
500m for a decade worth of R&D and a semi functional weapon at the other end of it? that's a bargain in the grand scheme of things.
smeghead666 especially when you hear that obummer gave Iran 150 BILLION dollars ;)
smeghead666 Its still useful research. There will be advancements in technology and they will trickle down to civilian technology some time in the future.
You got keep in mind though the shell destroys the barrel everytime, so we still need some more development to go.
He gave Iran 150 billion dollars?
Source, what a load of shite.
Taylor Albaugh I don't think you comprehend how much money that is.
Seems a bit to big to fit on a Warthog...
Jonathan Long make the warthog bigger and call it apocathog !
It would blow ut out of the sky
I think I like the BURRRRRT better
Jonathan Long warthog is still Powerful
Maybe an AC-130
Thanks for spoiling an upcoming update to World of Warships.
Only the Russian ships will get them.
WoW featuring WW II Warships, or were being built at war's end like the USS Midway!
_Looks at Russian warship build dates._
1955!? I thought you said WW2 Warships!?
A sneak peek at the newest installment of stalinium railguns mounted on everyone's favorite line of ships: Russian DDs!
@@Ivellios23 noone can beat their lovely motherland warships
@@EdoSetyo The $64,000 question is: Did they add decade later ships to be OP... or is that what it took for the Russian NAVY to fight on a level playing field?
At 0:40, the direction of the electromagnetic field along the sliding metal armature is in the wrong direction. Relative to the viewer's point of view, it should be clockwise, not counterclockwise, in order to satisfy Lenz's Law.
*Halo fans would like to know your location*
MAC armed and ready Captin Keys!
Sosic 😭😭
Thought I'd try shooting my way out, mix things up a bit.
Fackin same
Quake fan.. *oh hi there
America: We have a Railgun
Japan: We have Misaka Mikoto
nah, they have accelerator
@@fl0da117 Yeah, but that was before Miss Railgun.
"Both are indeed quite impressive," says Misaka, showing just a hint of pride in her sister.
The problem is that the US can make a lot of RailGuns (well, when they'll work!).
@@fl0da117 yes, with the first nuclear weapons, things have advanced considerably in the past 80 years lmao
All these know-it-alls : "you said it uses energy, everything that moves uses energy", if you watch the video and quit being a smartass he clearly states it uses ELECTRICAL ENERGY AS OPPOSED TO CONVENTIONAL CHEMICAL PROPELLANTS
if I had thought people would have taken it the wrong way, i would have said it your way, but it seemed obvious to me, to say it the way i did.
@@WonderWorldYTC absolutely, they want to try to show off their "scientific knowledge"
Oh, we get it. The way it was phrased was funny, that's all.
and if it uses the gravitational pull of a black hole to launch its projectile, it the black hole considered energy???
@Lalrivunga Hnamte don't know-my google university certificate expired yesterday....
Eustass captain kid must’ve seen this
Me: Misaka Mikoto's power isn't that great
*sees how raiguns work
Also Me: Ok... What, The , Actual, Fvck
@@axxjazz. she could control magnetic feilds so that's enough to explain how she can be a railgun, but Accelerators Vector control is more OP he could just Change the vector of the coin
I am more surprised that her hands aren't chiped away with the recoil
I am more surprised that people are talking about Misaka in a US military video.
@@axxjazz. the same, man, the same
@@Voldrim359 If science were taken account in fantasy, then there would be no fantasy.
Apparently you’ve never seen “Eraser” , they’ve had rail guns since the 90’s
Hollywood is used to condition the public decades in advance. I remember watching them talk about the rail gun as science fiction on an entertainment tonight segment for the release of that film, we all said "yeah right, they definitely have that shit hidden somewhere"
The concepts of electromagnetic guns have existed since the beginning of the 20th century with the first ever patent for such a weapon being in 1904. Even Nikola Tesla had his own proposed version of such a weapon back in the 1930's. In other words railguns as a concept predate Hollywood movies.
Just an FYI my comment was satire
@@stellingbanjodude dude we know - we know
liked the movie btw - solid b
Average American citizen:
Why do I have to pay taxes?!!
The government:
Only 3.45% goes to military
@@sangwoohan1177 Yeah right
@@thevigilant266 is actually about 15 to 20%
Edit: my bad that was just on defense its
more like 54%
@@Sirkamisori yea we pay taxes mostly to fund the US bullying small nations in the middle east and africa. prove me otherwise lol
@@jerryfan8378 Why would you support that?
ship captain: our railgun is the most accurate and devastating weapon ever.
after few shots: our guns are so devastating we need to head back to our base for barrel replacement
We are a step closer to space cruiser.
>Space Cruiser required:
Blueprint(tech level 20) current TL:12
...time to grind,it seems.
You can use "Orion Drive" tech to bypass this requirement, actually.
Imma too lazy to farm
can i have one for an airsoft game?
Rapi if you hit someone he probably wouldn't notice because it happens so fast. But the real problem is that they don't allow metal projectile otherwise you be fine
Fair and balanced
i mean,if you had a metal bb sure you could
Yes for sure !
Find a field that accepts 32 Mega Joule and you'll be fine
Germany: I created a rail gun!
USA: hold my blueprints.
British Aerospace: Cheers for the contract, old boy.
Robert Holloway except the American subsidiary did all the work
@Tom Dick and? You forgot to say anything substantial/relavent
This is one of the most powerful gun ever designed. Developed in France the first time during 1918, thig gun can launch a projectile to Mach 7 at a range around 200km.
Americans: we can't spend more over this project, it's unrealistic.
Chinese: we have already made functional prototypes, we're going to produce the final mass-producing version of it.
When the difference between success and failure is a matter of money and who have more decide to fail no matter what. I feel pity for the American engineers that are exploited by corporations and discredited by the American armed forces. 😑 They deserve definitely more credits for their work, and more money to finish it. As Furlan, there's no things that upset me more than an unfinished work.
oh so thats how Misaka shoots her enemies
The railgun is pretty cool and even more cool that the navy was able to build a full scale working one. But the technology still needs some break throughs that are simply not there yet. One of the biggest problems is the barrel starts to get micro fractures and can't take the stress for very long.
My thought is why not try to use magnetic levitation w a superconductor projectile?
So if we have MORE rail guns to divide up the use, problem solved.
@@goldenoreo9171 That would take a lot more energy, but it may be worth the efficiency.
No shit genius. That's why he said exactly that in the video.
We need a breakthrough in energy and energy storage, first.
I'm gonna call it what it is, a Magnetic Accelerator Canon other wise known as a MAC gun
Costa Govan macs are Gauss guns, not rail guns
Or a high velocity projectile canon. HVPC.
Or as I like to call it. A slingshot touched by the hand of God and given a battery
@@jb76489 Guass guns use coils but they are still magnetic accelerators
@@bruceweiner5306 did I say ashy thing to the contrary? The us navy has a rail gun, Mac guns are coil/gauss guns, they’re different things
It's more a mass accelerator so it's still a MAC
BAE Systems really is a pioneer in defense technology!
I want one for my Schwinn beach cruiser
to shoot pesky Sea Gulls?
Lets make it happen people!
Hoo rah
If you shot it you'll go flying.
Insomnia Poltergeist🚀 😂😂😂
I think they'll eventually find a way to use an electromagnetic field to float the sabot in a way that it never touches the barrel of the gun. A modification of mag-lev train technology might be the solution. It would give nearly friction-less operation; which should extend the life of the gun significantly.
The projectile has to make contact with both rails for the lorenz force to be generated, otherwise there is no place for the energy to flow. The lorenz force is generated by the SABOT which you see gets ejected with the projectile.
It's not a rail gun if the projectile/sabot isn't touching the rails. Current must flow from one rail via the projectile to the other. The induced magnetic fields are what propels the projectile.
I guess you are thinking about gauss guns, which kind of work like linear particle accelerators. Gauss guns are not rail guns. Granted, terminology tends to get mixed up in sci fi. Generally: two parallel rails -> rail gun. Stack of donut-shaped electromagnets -> gauss gun. (if gauss gun is the correct term...)
Thats what I was thinking to. Just suspend the shell in the air and therefore no friction exists to wear the gun down
...and no contact, therefore no closed circuit, no Lorentz force and - most important of all - no rail gun
Could float the projectile but have it connected with disposable wires or something to still have lorenz force in use
2:39
I must admit this is so much cooler than free health care
Seems legit
@@ayowhat998 Well it's definitely a lot more legit than saying doctors are magically gonna work for free XD
@@MikeSmith-vb8ul that's not how it works but ok. The idea is use the taxes we already pay to fund everything we need, so you pay for your's and other's wellbeing.
@@luciofurlan696 Except that is how it works. Your taxes will just get squandered and only the most basic care will be "freely available". And in the US, even the most basic care is already pretty expensive -- so the notion of "free healthcare" here is *an even bigger joke* XD lol
@@MikeSmith-vb8ul here in Argentina it's absolutely free, and it works pretty well, so the problem is the administration, not the idea
Railguns: Using electricity to fire projectiles.
EMP weapons: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
USA:We can install at the destroyer
Japan:Toaru kagaku no railgun
Korean:We can make just 40mm
china:copy!copy!!copy!!!
Relate4ever
UK: Not without us you can't (BAE Systems slapped on the side).
Except that the US hasn't installed any workable railguns on ships, a manga/anime/light novel is an inconsequential work of fiction, 40mm, if SK can even do this, does not solve the weapon's fundamental issues, and developing the same type of weapon is not the same as copying.
And no, your comment certainly didn't seem like a joke, more like the same old lazy "China can't innovate" meme.
@@neutralino1905 What do you want to say?Don't you know it's a joke?
*Casually talks about safety* -while breaking through everything in front of it.
USA:Railgun is most powerful weapon
Russia-hold my vodka.....
I chuckled :)
Drunk russian: Behold! The tsar railgun. It shoot train sized projectile @ mach 7.
@@1Deejay7 Does that even exist?
God no dude... I think he is going off of what Russia did the last time the US made a super weapon, which was to make an even stronger version of it (hydrogen bomb)
@@1Deejay7 dead😂
Big Mom stood no chance LMAO