Have you seen the US railgun?
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Want.
Consumer version, of course.
If the ATF goes away, we might be able to have these, hehehe... I wonder how long before some genius figures out a way to 3D print one and plug it into a wall socket?
Listen to your mother. You'll shoot your eye out.
They're not hard to make, I made one when I was a teenager.
It's mostly a metals problem on the small scale. You need an alloy you're not getting from a commercial supplier for the rails.
Then you need some big honking capacitors to drive the slug down the rails.
The faster you want the projectile to go means you have exponentially less time it's in contact with the rail. So on the small scale arc gap becomes a big issue cause you can't crank the voltage or the rails arc.
You could by borrowing from welding tech. "Rail in gas" using a dielectric gas to reduce the arcing, but that's an added complication.
I can see it happening for tanks a lot sooner. Power plant and capacitors become less of an issue, and so what you pack a gas charge in the shell if youre reducing munitions size by 80% who gives a fuck.
Interesting, and I expect it will happen sooner than later.
I expect we'll see an artillery with one relatively soon. Being able to control the velocity of the projectile is a game changer for dropping munitions exactly where you want them on the angle you want them.
"If the ATF goes away..."
Please, God.
I believe the second amendment allows us to have one of these.
Quick search on new rail gun announcements on Grok yielded no results. Fake news. Pretty sure that first video was just AI and that I've seen it before somewhere else.
The pretty blue colours were an easy to spot tell.
Yeah, the real US Navy one from years ago just looks like a flamethrower, albeit briefly.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Railgun_usnavy_2008.jpg/1280px-Railgun_usnavy_2008.jpg
By far I would rather have my tax dollars spent on our military and constant improvements and technological advances, than a gaggle of Somalian learing centers.
Absolutely 💯
Or EU globalist sovereignty eating forums.
Looks like a better engineered version of the Big Bertha used by the Germans in WWI.
https://nitter.poast.org/FlagAndFire/status/2008970373359128643?s=20
One of the challenges with the rail gun is the amount of jerk and EM energy vs the electronics. That and the shell maker price per round was way, way out of line. One of my toys that I am hoping makes a comeback.
So cool looking like something from Science Fiction..
General Atomics has 1 version, BAE Systems & US Naval Surface Warfare and Japan all working on it, will they put this on the new battleships?
Just right for destroying satellites. Didn't the USN have these a few years ago?
TMTG TAE merger. Was the first thing that came to my mind.
So Pétanque is more than sport, now?🤭 Just don’t do like the West did by giving the secret of gunpowder to the Ottomans half a millenia ago and keep this for the God-abiding peoople.🙏🏻
Railguns already exist but this is AI slop.
ATF doesn't regulate anything that isn't made using an explosion. Railguns are not under ATF jurisdiction. And if you want to get constitutional/gritty about it, the ATF doesn't have jurisdiction over anything at all.... including guns, stocks, suppressors, and auto triggers.
ATF doesn't regulate pellet guns, slingshots, or rocks either.
This is almost like Final Fantasy 7's Sister Ray