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gasoline as a propellant might be feasible, and guess what? It's already been looked into
richwicks saysgasoline as a propellant might be feasible, and guess what? It's already been looked into
Thx, interesting. Was not aware of Combustion light-gas gun
I could kill people with potato gun.
RC2006 saysI could kill people with potato gun.
The time to reload is what will get you. You better have 6.
Quite interesting development. At this point it is only a curiosity, but in some time this may replace guns as we know it.
This is accurately identified as a gauss rifle, coil gun, or linear accelerator (although gauss “rifle” is a bit misleading, as it is a smoothbore launcher). It functions by using a series of coils energized to produce electromagnetic fields and pull a ferrous projectile down a barrel. Each coil accelerates the projectile faster, controlled by a series of optical gates that shut off a coil as the projectile passes beyond it. The GR-1 uses 8 coils, which use between 4000 and 16000 amps of electricity from 8 high voltage capacitors. These coils are able to accelerate a 1/2″ in diameter steel dowel pin up to about 75 m/s (240 fps). The most novel technology in the GR-1 is the hardware which allows the standard lithium-ion battery (25V) to fully charge this bank of capacitors in approximately 3 seconds.