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[Hit the Deck]

I guess those sparks are heated metal shavings from the rail/projectile.

[Dee Eight]

I prefer these guys...

[B0oN]

Hit the Deck, on 02 April 2017 - 03:06 AM, said:

I guess those sparks are heated metal shavings from the rail/projectile.

In the superslow-mo it looked a bit as if they were from the fittings around the projectile that get blown to pieces when exiting that barrel .

Also : That projectile when it flies by ... straight as a laser . Impressive barrel exit velocity, holy cow.

Thanks for the video

Edited by The Shortbus, 05 April 2017 - 05:51 AM.

[Karl Streiger]

yep rail guns might have some advantages of the coil gun - to have a better ballistic coefficient might be one of them - because the length of the coil gun depends on the caliber - bigger = shorter

however the disadvantage is the huge plasma plume and the life span of the rails... for both its energy so - i think we will keep for another hundred years with propellant.

Not that the plasma plume will go away for rail guns (it would be suicidal to mount it on a ground vehicle even if you have the energy.

[Dee Eight]

Binary liquid propellants and directed energy weapons probably are more easily put into operational usage than rail guns in the near term.