US navy Railgun How does it work ? (technical resources )

>>57449317
It uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles. Any other questions?

magnets

>>57449325
Magnets- okay, making magnets, collecting magnets-

>how does a railgun work
Nigger you fucking serious

If you're not retarded you can build one at home

Fuck out of here

>>57449353
monkey boi stfu

>>57449317
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a134873.pdf

>>57449323
>It uses electromagnets to accelerate projectiles.
>electromagnets

See the mistake?

>>57449317
We quake now?

>>57449317
>>>/k/
Wrong board, anon

>>57449861
If you think you can have a serious technical discussion in /k/ I have a bridge I would like to sell you.

Give it back, Artyom.

Each Zumwalt class destroyer has a level 5 electromaster on board.

>>57449317
>AFAIK it uses the Lorentz force generated by the current flowing in the projectile to accelerate it

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.

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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.

>>57450876
*Utron's, in case you were planning on searching.

>>57450876
>>57450927
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a462130.pdf

>>57450876
>he doesnt believe in the magic smoke

Have fun with that obsolete tech lel

This is my favourite video now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNLrQhn5nLo

>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.

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>>57450478

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

https://youtu.be/NJRDclzi5Vg

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.

another good use for it could be space. if and when we get to shoot eachother in the space ofc.

>>57452323
Wouldn't the acceleration be kindof extreme?

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>>57450876
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

>>57452730
isn't that the point? shoot shit fast?
and you can easily make way longer coils than on earth.

>>57452842
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.

>>57449317
Its like a coil gun but bigger

>>57452811
but the human eyes can only effectively see 29fps anyways

>>57449317
Nice try China

>>57449353
and yet billions have been spent developing them for mounting on military vehicles. Clearly very simple.

>>57453424
kek

>>57456473
They are simple, making them efficient is not.

>>57450835
These really aren't for other ships, they're for shooting down missiles, aircraft, the ISS, and maybe other ships that get too close

>>57452811
>fps
why is this legal