Scott Ruggels Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 Duke Bushido and pinecone 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 I greatly anticipate the 10mm anti-materiel version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 Big as a surboard as you'd expect and slow to charge, but cool anyway. 75m/s isn't very huge muzzle velocity yet and a 20 ounce payload isn't very impressive. There's also probably some cubing effect of power to weight that's limiting its payload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted February 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 11 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said: Big as a surboard as you'd expect and slow to charge, but cool anyway. 75m/s isn't very huge muzzle velocity yet and a 20 ounce payload isn't very impressive. There's also probably some cubing effect of power to weight that's limiting its payload. Listening to the video, the manufacturers are confident in the battery technnology. THe problem, they say, is the capacitors, and that technology is not as advanced. As Ian says, it's a 1903 Wright Flyer, in terms of the techy, but they expect Capacito0r technology to improve that that will increase the muzzle velocity in future iterations of the weapon. Right now it's basically equivalent to a wrist rocket in terms of muzzle energy, but will improve with time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted February 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 Here is the "on the range" video, of the gauss gun, firing out in the desert near Tucson (after a lengthy technical explanation.) Interesting to note, that I , myself, can never own own or operate this device, as I have a pacemaker, and the energy dump into the coils generates 5 times the magnetic field of an MRI machine, and would, to put it delicately, cause problems. So I guess I will stick with powder activated slug throwers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 Why do I suspect the next generation of pacemakers will include EMP shielding? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted March 26, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2022 They added a pistol to the product line up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 Rapidly paced development. It'll be interesting to see where they stand in a decade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted August 6, 2022 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 53 minutes ago, L. Marcus said: Rapidly paced development. It'll be interesting to see where they stand in a decade. Yes, that has been since February. So around a 6 month Development cycle. Still, the Muzzle Velocity is in a Paintball range, but the use of commercial Batteries out to 300 shots, to me says that the bottleneck isn't in the batteries, but still in the Capacitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 Man that is pretty puny for a rail gun, but its just starting out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 5 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said: Yes, that has been since February. So around a 6 month Development cycle. Still, the Muzzle Velocity is in a Paintball range, but the use of commercial Batteries out to 300 shots, to me says that the bottleneck isn't in the batteries, but still in the Capacitors. Accuracy is also a problem, since the projectile isn't stabilized in any way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 Probably eventually go with finned or drag stabilized flechettes. Should be enough to get them sufficiently accurate for a few hundred meters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cowan Posted August 6, 2022 Report Share Posted August 6, 2022 1 hour ago, Christopher R Taylor said: Man that is pretty puny for a rail gun, but its just starting out. Coilgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun not a railgun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun yes a nitpick but the tech is not the same Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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