0:20 This is a coil gun ([not a] Gauss cannon), it's very different because it uses the single force vector created by the coil you'll show later in the video. It's easy: if it has wire going around the barrel it's a coil gun, if it has wire on the back only, and a hollow rectangular barrel section (formed by the rails and the bullet containment) it's a rail gun
@FlamingElmo8 күн бұрын
A gauss cannon is also another different thing from a coil gun
@kino_618 күн бұрын
@@FlamingElmo oh thanks, I'll correct it 👍
@fredsmith22772 жыл бұрын
forgot to mention the barrel quickly tears it's self apart and you cant use it repeatedly without changing the barrel internals ?
@soujemn5 Жыл бұрын
you would need to replace the rails every few shots. not particularly difficult, but still an additional limitation.
@processingunit5321 Жыл бұрын
Yup, it's too strong for itself
@noneyaaa6288 Жыл бұрын
Not the new ones
@3elements6233 ай бұрын
This is a end it all weapon
@AlpaOmega-nb5jm2 ай бұрын
Not true you don't know what your talking about bud
@Omario94 Жыл бұрын
In 00:30 the gun shown is a Gauss gun aka coil gun not a rail gun. Its a completely different system, gauss gun uses a series of electromagnetic coils that activate in a syncronize order do propel the projectile. In a rail gun the projectile completes the circuit in between two rails, one rail being + and the other being - and the positive rail is fed by capacitors. This generates a huge magnetic force that pushes the projectile. Two completely different systems.
@Popzin1014 ай бұрын
Still electro magnetic….
@AlpaOmega-nb5jm2 ай бұрын
Wow you guys sound like uses made the gun give it a rest wow
@eliasmedina906015 күн бұрын
Thanks to this I now have some ideas for sci-fi railguns for a story I'm making.
@mxcollin952 жыл бұрын
From my research, they haven’t been able to create a rail gun that doesn’t tear it’s self apart after shooting just a handful of rounds. That’s why it was created awhile ago but is still not in service.
@MrElgate Жыл бұрын
Which makes sense. The projectile need to be touching both side at all time, for the current, providing a lot of friction.
@xl0002 жыл бұрын
Cool. I found one on craigslist and I wasn’t sure what it was
@CLIPZ5084 ай бұрын
Lmao
@PONTIANGOD10 ай бұрын
How do railguns taken consider curvature of Earth when you do your your math where's the to go when it doesn't account for
@gulfy098 ай бұрын
That's why I came here for. Flat earth
@TheDSasterX11 күн бұрын
Presumably, you factor in (using their example) 100s of gravity (200km at 2km/s) into the arc of your shot (in addition to whatever they add for air resistance).
@Graywolf1162 жыл бұрын
I wonder if we'll see more of the coilgun start to overtake railgun interest. IMO the main issue of the coilgun (synchronized switching and stabilizing the round in the magnetic field) is a *lot* easier to overcome than the rail ablation issue in railguns. Apparently the Chinese Navy has gone down the coilgun route and is test-fielding a naval gun? Research follows funding, so I guess we'll find out once the check-writers recover from the failure of the US Navy's railgun program.
@gabedarrett13012 жыл бұрын
2:30 This could easily be improved by using an electromagnet to establish an external magnetic field acting on the projectile
@abinodattil64222 жыл бұрын
They probably already know it’s
@hackmedia77555 ай бұрын
Rail Gun and Gauss Gun are two completely different types. Rail gun uses high voltage and two rails, with the projectile being conductive. Gauss gun uses magnetism to pull the projectile through the center of each coil.
@malcolmliang Жыл бұрын
Certainly a certain scientific railgun
@meverick6662 жыл бұрын
the picture from around 00:17 to 00:25 shows a gauss gun not a rail gun... just saying
@michaelfoye11359 ай бұрын
Looks like the guy in the video doing the pointing, the guy with three arms, needs a bit more time in the cloning tanks. He doesn't appear to be quite done.
Жыл бұрын
0:22 - coilgun...
@nillchen Жыл бұрын
25 MW are only needed for a brief time (during acceleration) and can be provided by large capacitors.
@Recoverys Жыл бұрын
I'm fascinated with the idea of railguns. Not just in sector of warfare but multiple other applications such as launching rockets for space exploration or like powering trains using railguns so it can get to it's destination faster
@altide8784 Жыл бұрын
Future trains?
@KK-ygh11 ай бұрын
Yep
@ledocteur770111 ай бұрын
The maglev system used in Changai is essentially a giant coilgun, different principle that a railgun. but if we can solve the ablation problem of railguns then a railgun train would be far cheaper to build than a maglev.
@mzamroni2 жыл бұрын
It should have 2 separate adjacent barrels. 1 barrel for the projectile and 1 barrel for linear motor, so that heat from linear motor barrel doesn't affect projectile and its barrel. Both barrel has lateral opening. Linear motor pushes metal that has leg in projectile barrel to propel the projectile. This will be fine as there is no explosive propulsion in projectile barrel. Projectile barrel can have holes to dissipate friction heat
@squartbotai1383 Жыл бұрын
Draw this. Can't picture what your saying
@randompeople7595 Жыл бұрын
I am picturing a barrel inside of a barrel in which the first one inside holds the projectile and the latter outside accelerates the projectile?
@mzamroni Жыл бұрын
@@randompeople7595 barrel inside barrel is too complex and expensive. It's simply 2 adjacent barrels with lateral openings to allow leg of moving conductor in conductor barrel to push projectile in the adjacent barrel. (*===+> ( : propulsion barrel * : metal conductor in propulsion barrel === : the leg of metal conductor + : the projectile > : the projectile barrel
@randompeople7595 Жыл бұрын
@@mzamroni thanks now I can picture it
@chuckaddison5134 Жыл бұрын
It's not friction that's destroying the barrels. It's the dead short created when 25 MW are applied to the conductors with the projectile contacts closing the circuit. The (nearly) instantaneous surge melts and vaporizes portions of the rails.
@archinsoni1254Ай бұрын
Super cool video.
@aamiddel8646 Жыл бұрын
Railgun uses 25MW as much as a lot of households uses.. Yeah in a split second. And the principle used in the past was different then used today. In the past they used coils, now rails. Only the magnetism is the same as being the propellant force.. So..
@kino_61 Жыл бұрын
A MW is a 1 000 000 J/s, time is already in the equation
@maalikserebryakov Жыл бұрын
@@kino_61we know, whats your point?
@kino_61 Жыл бұрын
@@maalikserebryakov he said "yeah, in a split second" as if the houses used the same power in less time, which has no sense since as I said power has time in itself. He might wanted to say energy but no one talked about that
@nillchen Жыл бұрын
@@kino_61 25 MW can be provided by caps. When they contain 1 kWh=3.6 MJ of energy, discharging them in 1/8 s will roughly amount to 25 MW during that time. Just a couple of cents worth. I think we all agree on that.
@mxcollin952 жыл бұрын
Dude your content is awesome! 👍
@johndobb8239 Жыл бұрын
Great channel, glad i found it
@pietrogarcia86482 жыл бұрын
Very nice, it explains a lot
@ianschuring4696Ай бұрын
''the power equivalent of 20,000 households" in one moment? an hour? a day?
@gopiveall49072 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@threethousandbees72607 ай бұрын
If only we knew how magnets work
@alcross2003 Жыл бұрын
He just showed us how to make one lol
@thomashawaii2 жыл бұрын
1:25is a mistake. It should be the left hand.
@fredsmith22772 жыл бұрын
i thought it was the right hand rule ?
@dominus38582 жыл бұрын
I would like to know more about the rail gun project from Germany, does anyone know the name of the project?
@Jasmohan3 ай бұрын
Batteries are the main limiting factor as always
@AcapellaNutella63 ай бұрын
25MW? GREAT SCOTT!
@sithlordmaster181 Жыл бұрын
Actually, electrons flow from - to + in a battery. You’ve got it backwards.
@just.someguy5145 Жыл бұрын
He's talking about current which moves + to - so he's right
@zilla87832 жыл бұрын
Holy shit this thing op
@jianbruce6774 Жыл бұрын
Like what is the rail gun for is it more powerful than gunpowder?
@shariqhasan6220 Жыл бұрын
It fires a projectile at very high speed much faster than a conventional artillery gun. At that speed, you don't even need gunpowder as the velocity of the projectile is enough to obliterate the target. This also gives it a high range. Only issue is that the heat produced literally destroys the barrel and cannot be re-used anymore.
@israelCommitsGenocide Жыл бұрын
it makes some guy rich and takes money from the slave class so it served its purpose.
@shao69812 жыл бұрын
funny physical Experiment。
@nilalohitadey9246 Жыл бұрын
And thank you
@sallom531 Жыл бұрын
umm, soo, which country are you invading with it?
@lelgame14 ай бұрын
The gun that you show about in the beginning looks like a Coil Gun, or Gauss cannon, not a Rail Gun
@aphiz4505Ай бұрын
Hmmmm 🤔... So, a railgun is pretty much like a slingshot that propelled a projectile? Errrr... Why can't they just use Maglev concept to propel a metal projectile?
@Zuconja2 жыл бұрын
The problems Germans had in WW2 with railguns didn't get solved.
@Homophonic2 ай бұрын
Had no idea these are real lmfao
@sorce53505 ай бұрын
"Do you know what could penetrate this armor?" sorry guys idk really know about a railgun
@thibs28372 жыл бұрын
Zumvalt destroyers are taken out of use, no ?
@night82852 жыл бұрын
they stopped the production at 3 ships, since it's too costly to make. So they've designed a new destroyer.
@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 Жыл бұрын
Guys, chill, the USS Montana will have rail guns, were not butchering the Iowa sisters,.. ..again,
@Alex-xh9kv Жыл бұрын
The mechanical voice is a turn off & the script excludes important details. For example, the voice says to use a hand to determine what direction the magnetic field follows the around a wire but not which hand. Thankfully, the video shows the right hand.
@atmacm2 жыл бұрын
Good video, but current flows negative to positive in a DC circuit.
@twertas2 жыл бұрын
It doesn't. Electrons do "flow" from - to +, but the direction of current flow is the opposite in physics
@qewqeqeqwew39772 жыл бұрын
That is a big misconception. Current flows from positive to negative, always. Electric current is not the same as "electron flow". It can be a flow of electrons, positrons, ions or any other charged objects.
@atmacm2 жыл бұрын
@@qewqeqeqwew3977 DC current absolutely flows from negative to positive.
@qewqeqeqwew39772 жыл бұрын
@@atmacm It absolutely does not. You either did not read what I wrote or have reading comprehension problems. Repeating same false statement and adding "absolutely" does not make it true.
@atmacm2 жыл бұрын
@@qewqeqeqwew3977 I read your response, but it’s wrong. Did you not read my comment where I told you accurate information that you could learn from? Apparently you didn’t. Current flows negative to positive but it’s mostly taught to be the opposite to not confuse people…. Like you
@derekpierkowski76412 жыл бұрын
Ya lost me when ya said it fired shells.
@ddxinthehouse Жыл бұрын
you do realize that all artillery use shells, right? my guy out here thinking shells only apply to shotgun ammo.
@derekpierkowski7641 Жыл бұрын
@@ddxinthehouse Well that's not true smarty pants. Some use projectiles with different loads of powder packs for distance.
@ddxinthehouse Жыл бұрын
@@derekpierkowski7641 you really had what i said fly over your head huh? also dynamic powder charges are still in the shells class. the "shells" in terms of artiliery refer to the projectile its self, not the casing. its why dynamic powder charged ammo is still called a shell when it has no case and is instead fired raw in the barrel... 5iq...
@derekpierkowski7641 Жыл бұрын
@@ddxinthehouse Ya wanna suck my WHAT!?
@ddxinthehouse Жыл бұрын
hell, even explosive cannon balls were called shells...