Thursday, August 8, 2013

The Future Arrives in Baby Steps

Someone has made a hand-held railgun, also known as a Gauss rifle.


At this point in its development, it's less impressive than a 13th Century Chinese handgonne. No doubt that Alco and Baldwin weren't too impressed just over a century ago by the first few diesel locomotives. So for now, the gun manufacturers probably aren't too worried.

But the electric rifles are coming, nonetheless.

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3 comments:

  1. w3ski8/08/2013 11:42 AM

    I can see that the power requirements would be a bitch at this time but new battery teck is just around the corner. It might do better with an electromagnetic firing mechanism instead of solenoids also.
    I LOVE the idea of buying ammo at the hardware store.
    Science Marches Onwards
    Yea
    w3ski

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  2. Phil8/08/2013 3:35 PM

    Where do you hook up the jumper cables?

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  3. hans8/08/2013 3:49 PM

    they'll have to soon use ceramics for ammo cuz even tungsten will deform at the klicks-per-second velocities that are coming.

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