Stupid friggin' video! It's a compilation of 2 totally different videos, which have NOTHING to do with eachother.. The first shown gun is NOT a railgun, and the second video shows the US Navy railgun shot - obviously not the shot from the hillbillies "cannon".
i thought that rail guns look a little like bazookas, except it had two steel rods that would fire electric pulses that would shock the $#!# outta ppl... if they havent started working on that.... yeah.... i could probably invent a rail gun....
That isn't a friggen railgun. You got a bid of some guys homebuilt cannon or something and made a fancy looking projectile then used footage from a real railgun to show the REAL bullet. FAKE
@Dubsackjack to clarify, it was the ammo of the rail gun that they were testing here. the info for the video is a little misleading. funnily enough, though, the title isn't misleading in any way.
So this isn't a rail gun FYI. I'm seeing footage from two separate videos here. First one being some old cannon and the slow motion clip is from an actual rail gun test firing.
Hey any old artillery guy will tell you that the undercarriage is from an 8 inch (203mm) howitzer....yup...know that system only too well. We fired some mean stuff ourselves!
Extremely high speed kinetic rounds actually transition from the solid to the liquid and then to gaseous in a short period of time. This releases a tremendous amount of energy!
its a rail that generates massive amounts of energy in electromagnetic form and it uses it to force a solid metal projectile at more than 8 machs to the speed that when the projectile hits an object the kinectic energy stored in the projectile from moving over 8 macks will cause a large shockwave and simulate a explosive round...but the rounds r cheaper
That's not an electromagnetic railgun. The one they're loading is an early WWII (i think) 'railgun' cannon, so titled because it was pulled around on railroad tracks.
Like slashest said, there is no explosion with an electromagnetic railgun because it uses ELECTROMAGNETS rather than gunpowder
yep, thats almost the whole point of railguns, they dont have to fit explosive projectiles, they simply fire a solid metal projectile, and at the insane speeds they are going, they can be more damaging than explosive rounds, think miles per second instead of meters per second =)
if you fire from a railgun the same projectile they use on 12inch guns in battleships..are you saying the effect is more damaging than the explosive projectile?
just think. a meteor which travels at 30,000mph the size of a pea can make a pretty big crator in the ground. imagine something 90mm's traveling at 15,000mph. ive read that they managed to get 15,000mph with only using 30% of its potential power.
Thats slightly over-estimating the power of a meteorite the size of a pea. There have been instances recorded of people ( Even an kid ) getting hit by one in his palm and survivng.
The rail gun projectiles are usually much lighter than their explosive counterparts (a battleship shell can weigh around 300 kg, whereas a rail gun shell is usually around 3 kg). In spite of this though, the sheer speed of the projectile causes it to be as devastating as an explosive 300 kg projectile.
In other words, you can carry more shells with no risk of explosions on board, with just as good weapon power. The rail gun is a fantastic invention!
@Athaeus Sadly, the conductors necessary for a high enough voltage and ampere are much heavier than the conventional gun would be. Pure electromagnetic guns atm are more of a feat of engineering than a practical wapon. Current military research on EM-phenomena is rather focused on using plasmatechnology to optimize the blast of conventional guns, and its rather an incremental advantage than a big breakthrough.
@Athaeus actually it's been stated that the Rail Gun round is as powerful and devastating as one of their Tomahawk missiles (Source: Office of Naval Research)
Nah, they'd get damaged too much to use in long ranges. The money you'd have to spend on encasing the warhead so that it doesn't render itself useless during flight... I think it wouldn't make such a difference anyway. A nuke explodes because of its payload. I don't see why a higher kinetic energy should make a great difference.
that barrel is stupid the only use you could get out of that is to try to line up with a enemy craft carrier and hope you can sink them what a waste of tax payers money.
ummm.....have you ever heard of long-range artillery? All you have to do is get an angle and adjust for windage, the rest is entry-level calculus. That's a depleted uranium sabot, the kind used by tanks to punch through up to 2 feet of reactive plate steel armor. Imagine what it'll do to a concrete bunker when it lands at 3800 fps. Buildings can't run away.
You people are idiots. The first part of the video is a projectile test utilizing a depleted uranium sabot round fired through an artillery test man barrel to attemp to achieve results comparable to a rail gun. If any of you techno videogame geeks spent anytime in the service of your country instead of in your mothers basement living out your fantasies on xbox/ps3 you would know this.
a depleted uranium slug is what alot of modern tanks use cos its a heavier metal than steel. nothin to do with the radiation or the metal it just causes a shitload more damage.
that look'es not like a railgun....that look'es like more an atillery cannon but not a railgun...for sure the first sequence are not a railgun...at about 0:56 till end thats a railgun but not the first sequences...for sure
You've watched too much movies and played too many games. A rail gun is supposed to fire a piece of metal at high speeds, what that piece of metal is made of doesn't have to be spent uranium.
Depleted uranium is incredibly dense, and has unique cleaving properties. When shot out of a rifled barrel, it's spinning motion keeps the projectile from deforming, instead, it "sharpens" the projectile to keep a sharp point traveling through the armored target.'
Armor-piercing + extra kinetic energy = incredible heavy round.
i understand the principle, but the real question is, would it be prectical to put on a ship due to the power needed in order to fire the big schtick. My guess is that they would need to fefit an aircraft carrier sinse they alreadt have nuclear reactors.
also, a simple hollow cone or even a sphere would be better in my opinion because, if i understand correctly, the heat and speed generated would cause the projectile to be turned into molten metal anyway due to air friction.
Actually, they use a homopolar generator and a simple 1 megawatt turbine to spin the homopolar generator up to speed. Once at speed, which only takes a minute or two, the short the launch foil to the rails. The entire million amp current of the homopolar generator goes into the foil generating a plasma cloud and the rails keep that cloud *charged* and *HOT*. It's that expanding cloud of plasma that pushes that projectile along.
Plasma is created all the time! Do you have fluorescent lights in your home? Plasma. The sun? Plasma. A lightning globe? Plasma. An electrical arc? Plasma. A flame? Plasma.
It isn't the plasma that pushes the projectile; it is the Lorenz force. The plasma is just a conductor, used because it is the only conductor that can stand up to a million amps of current.
i understand the principle, but the real question is, would it be prectical to put on a ship due to the power needed in order to fire the big schtick. My guess is that they would need to fefit an aircraft carrier sinse they alreadt have nuclear reactors.
also, a simple hollow cone or even a sphere would be better in my opinion because, if i understand correctly, the heat and speed generated would cause the projectile to be turned into molten metal anyway due to air friction.
@neep28 it is a railgun, the smoke and fire you see is caused by the high amps reeking havoc on the area around the projectile and the projectile itself, like a plasma cutter does to metal.
@MnstrSubrbn that is not a rail gun but a kenetic projectile used for one....maybe if you spent the same 15 secons by even just googling rail gun, you could find the information before making a comment like that
i just went through some of the comments and i think i need to clear something up. others have said this but i dont think they did it in the clearist way, so that everyone can understand it. the video is showing the projectile being tested in a cannon. not a railgun. but. the projectile is made for a railgun. they are merely testing how well the projectile functions before putting it in the actual railgun. as for the footage at the end. it is probably the finished product in the actual railgun.
Yes g2y2q2. The projectile at the beginning is being loaded into a breech loading cannon, a long one. The shot of it being fired is from a completely different video. I don't think the us navy test fire rail guns in a forest!
they faked it from the navy's footage. the projectile they put in was pointed. The one shown on the footage was blunt. The target they used had a crosshair type thing on it, while the footage target had an emblem on it. That thing's just a really long cannon.
NO. This is a railgun, that means, it uses no coils. Instead of this, it uses two rails, that are under high voltage. Between that two rails, there is the projectile. When it's fired, floats a very high electrical stream through the projectile - maybe more than one million ampares!
That unimaginal big power is responsible for the fire.
WOW this video is completely false. That gun did not fire that projectile that it showed at the end of the film. That first gun was not a railgun but a standard cannon. The last part of the video was a completely different weapon which was a railgun put there to make it look like it came from that cannon.
yea, ur rite, that was not a railgun, that was a cannon, and they put the bullet in a insulator (plastic), railgun bullets need to be conductive so the current can pass through it...
there are massive amount of current passing through the projectile and down the length of the gun therefor the small sabots ont the projectile willl ignite causing the fire
This argument about "it is a railgun" "no it is not" is just plain dumb. Go read the original test at the Naval Warfare site: this is a test of the PROJECTILE for the naval railgun using a STANDARD BREACHLOADING ARTILERY PIECE to fire the projectile.
The gun featured in the video is NOT a railgun.
Now I KNOW some moron is going to come along and say "yeah it is" but you can verify the information I at the Naval Warfare site (and get your own copy of the original vid)
im sorry but that was most deffinitly not a rail gun. that was just a testing of a new projectile in a standard cannon. a magnetic rail gun would have a large array of electromagnetic coils spaced evenly along a rail hence the name railgun , not a 1940's model naval cannon
Lol, Plasma isn't yet able to be harnessed... Not large amounts like you would see in Halo or movies. Sure you can get minor jolts and such, but we're not going to be seeing "plasma rifles" anytime soon. Railguns are not plasma-guns, but projectile guns. They use magnets to propel a projectile.
Actually plasma is able to be harnessed, Boeing is testing plasma-based weaponry and it is a pretty basic concept:
Hydrogen is put in a magnetic bottle, Superheated to plasma, one end of the bottles magnetic field is lowered and the plasma goes out through the weakend field. However the plasma will only go a few inches because of the atmospheric pressure
heh, acualy for arfexnex, hes sort of right if a plasma cannon were to come out it would be called a rail gun and to the other acualy we have harnessed plasma, its not that hard acualy jsut ionize a gas and boom plasma, any way we have plasma torches nfor cutting jsut no way to make it go more then a foot
Yes, it's technically a railgun. There's no warhead, it's a solid metal projectile with a sabot that gets destroyed upon firing. The sabot serves the purpose of allowing an aerodynamic projectile to properly complete the circuit along the rails, without causing the projectile to be arc-welded in place. It makes sense that it would vaporize/combust as seen in this video versus other concepts where it was discarded like the shuttle's booster rockets. Railguns usually aren't like the movies.
Yes it is a railgun, the flame you see is a combination of the sabbot being eradicated and the mach 5 shockwave coming off the back of the projectile. Remember when talking those kinds of speeds there's a reason explosives are not required, raw kinetic impact. I'd love to see the crater that thing leaves.
=\ Assuming that's where the fire comes from (I don't see the carbon, I don't see how it has any fuel to burn unless you're saying that metal catches fire or something...), why do I not see huge coils wrapped around the barrel?
Yea. You know what that means right? With a Rail Gun that powerful and able to shoot that far, now the United States can use electro-magnetic energy to launch Nukes. That way, they wont be in violation of any peace treaties.
Supply me with a link which includes the treaties which explicitly states that the method of launch has anything to do with the legality of deployment of nuclear devices. Thank you.
look for information on the hot shot nuclear artillery cannon, developed during the 1950's.
i'd imagine that the amount of current dissipated through the sabot of a railgun and the extreme electromagnetic flux during firing would make loading any kind of sophisticated payload, such as a nuclear weapon, very difficult.
notice how they decided to blow a hole into the actual naval research emblem. that says they would like a little more money to keep working for em.lol
It's actually a "sabot" round. I think I read that this one hits the target at around Mach 5. That's a lot faster than the ones coming out of a tank. Scary to be on the receiving side of that one...
It moves so fast it ignites the air.
EagleEye910638 1 month ago
Stupid friggin' video! It's a compilation of 2 totally different videos, which have NOTHING to do with eachother.. The first shown gun is NOT a railgun, and the second video shows the US Navy railgun shot - obviously not the shot from the hillbillies "cannon".
movsvinet 3 months ago 2
show me the actual weapon later. and it MUST be placed on a Rex style walking tank.
CaptainJetJakal 11 months ago
@CaptainJetJakal Ohh yeahhhhh METAL GEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
TheWhinley 1 week ago
Wtf, this is not a railgun. You just cut footage from a railgun projectile at the very end.
EnigmaHood 1 year ago
i thought that rail guns look a little like bazookas, except it had two steel rods that would fire electric pulses that would shock the $#!# outta ppl... if they havent started working on that.... yeah.... i could probably invent a rail gun....
David86095 1 year ago
when he sid that cap over the projectile it squiled like a door, must be a tight fit, mmmmmm
happygamestvfun1 1 year ago
No, it edited the video in slow-mo, its a solid fuel rocket! 1:00
you54312 1 year ago
@you54312 No, that's the friction the projectile has with the air.
AnotherGaisle 1 year ago
long barrel is loooooooooooooooooooong
MT1337ness 1 year ago 2
That isn't a friggen railgun. You got a bid of some guys homebuilt cannon or something and made a fancy looking projectile then used footage from a real railgun to show the REAL bullet. FAKE
NeutroNova 1 year ago
its calld a sabot round. pronounced saybow. kinetic energy round.
snoninjah 1 year ago
thats not a rail gun, it's a cannon.
Dubsackjack 1 year ago
@Dubsackjack to clarify, it was the ammo of the rail gun that they were testing here. the info for the video is a little misleading. funnily enough, though, the title isn't misleading in any way.
judgetwelve 1 year ago
So this isn't a rail gun FYI. I'm seeing footage from two separate videos here. First one being some old cannon and the slow motion clip is from an actual rail gun test firing.
Cobra2468 1 year ago
Kinetic energy = (m*V^2)/2
LtStrayshot 2 years ago
Mass * velocity is force... Not momentum.
MaxeMouse 2 years ago
No, Force is mass * acceleration. Momentum is mass * velocity
Reddles37 2 years ago
pfft. dumbass. Go make idiot comments in another video. like of your mom masterbating.
AdelineProductions 2 years ago
The equation for momentum:
p=mv
Momentum = mass x velocity
So something that weighs 1kg can be just as devastating as something that weighs 500kg.
Equation for kinetic energy:
KE=.5mv^2
Kinetic energy = 1/2 mass x velocity squared
Very similar to momentum. Again noting the mass/velocity relation.
assaultman45 2 years ago 2
Hey any old artillery guy will tell you that the undercarriage is from an 8 inch (203mm) howitzer....yup...know that system only too well. We fired some mean stuff ourselves!
nvdwarriorLtc 2 years ago
amazing
simplygarnett 2 years ago
Extremely high speed kinetic rounds actually transition from the solid to the liquid and then to gaseous in a short period of time. This releases a tremendous amount of energy!
darthspeaks 2 years ago
yeah, even on videos of homemade railguns, there is a (smaller) flash as the projectile is fired.
Drassixe54 2 years ago
wots a rail gun
555banzai 2 years ago
its a rail that generates massive amounts of energy in electromagnetic form and it uses it to force a solid metal projectile at more than 8 machs to the speed that when the projectile hits an object the kinectic energy stored in the projectile from moving over 8 macks will cause a large shockwave and simulate a explosive round...but the rounds r cheaper
superaznfooo 2 years ago
a big ass gun.
scaryfreak12345 2 years ago
why so fast?
PeteZahat 2 years ago
That's not an electromagnetic railgun. The one they're loading is an early WWII (i think) 'railgun' cannon, so titled because it was pulled around on railroad tracks.
Like slashest said, there is no explosion with an electromagnetic railgun because it uses ELECTROMAGNETS rather than gunpowder
superharry1 2 years ago
incorrect there is an explosion. the sound waves collapsing and the intense heat ignite the oxygen on real railguns.
boraboy4ever 2 years ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what exactly do rail guns fire? Just a metal stud?
UndyingSimmons 2 years ago
Yeah, they can even fire friggn granite :P
Helge129 2 years ago
yep, thats almost the whole point of railguns, they dont have to fit explosive projectiles, they simply fire a solid metal projectile, and at the insane speeds they are going, they can be more damaging than explosive rounds, think miles per second instead of meters per second =)
vigilante258 2 years ago 5
if you fire from a railgun the same projectile they use on 12inch guns in battleships..are you saying the effect is more damaging than the explosive projectile?
taeyeonielover2008 2 years ago
it is a LOT more damaging
Iceberqe 2 years ago
just think. a meteor which travels at 30,000mph the size of a pea can make a pretty big crator in the ground. imagine something 90mm's traveling at 15,000mph. ive read that they managed to get 15,000mph with only using 30% of its potential power.
Sensoubandit 2 years ago 2
they should strap someone to it and make them fly. but they should have a cushion for when they land ;)
ThebigJBIG 2 years ago
@Sensoubandit
Thats slightly over-estimating the power of a meteorite the size of a pea. There have been instances recorded of people ( Even an kid ) getting hit by one in his palm and survivng.
But still, I Agree with your general point.
ba3cool 2 years ago
The rail gun projectiles are usually much lighter than their explosive counterparts (a battleship shell can weigh around 300 kg, whereas a rail gun shell is usually around 3 kg). In spite of this though, the sheer speed of the projectile causes it to be as devastating as an explosive 300 kg projectile.
In other words, you can carry more shells with no risk of explosions on board, with just as good weapon power. The rail gun is a fantastic invention!
Athaeus 2 years ago 6
@Athaeus Sadly, the conductors necessary for a high enough voltage and ampere are much heavier than the conventional gun would be. Pure electromagnetic guns atm are more of a feat of engineering than a practical wapon. Current military research on EM-phenomena is rather focused on using plasmatechnology to optimize the blast of conventional guns, and its rather an incremental advantage than a big breakthrough.
BusterXXXL 1 year ago
@Athaeus actually it's been stated that the Rail Gun round is as powerful and devastating as one of their Tomahawk missiles (Source: Office of Naval Research)
daedalus357 1 year ago
@daedalus357 But a cruise missile can be steered to its target while a rail gun projectile, like any bullet, just follows a ballistic trajectory.
trr321321 1 year ago
rail guns = awesome.. in real life and in games :P
TheOneAndonlyDingy 2 years ago
Holy shit.. Imagine putting nuclear warheads in that thing...
Cha0sLord93 3 years ago
Nah, they'd get damaged too much to use in long ranges. The money you'd have to spend on encasing the warhead so that it doesn't render itself useless during flight... I think it wouldn't make such a difference anyway. A nuke explodes because of its payload. I don't see why a higher kinetic energy should make a great difference.
XHeiko 2 years ago
that barrel is stupid the only use you could get out of that is to try to line up with a enemy craft carrier and hope you can sink them what a waste of tax payers money.
InfidelAntichristian 3 years ago
The rail is very usefull. It will shoot things faster. That was just a test gun. Not the real thing.
privateworldofwarft 3 years ago 12
ummm.....have you ever heard of long-range artillery? All you have to do is get an angle and adjust for windage, the rest is entry-level calculus. That's a depleted uranium sabot, the kind used by tanks to punch through up to 2 feet of reactive plate steel armor. Imagine what it'll do to a concrete bunker when it lands at 3800 fps. Buildings can't run away.
nickburnin8 3 years ago
You people are idiots. The first part of the video is a projectile test utilizing a depleted uranium sabot round fired through an artillery test man barrel to attemp to achieve results comparable to a rail gun. If any of you techno videogame geeks spent anytime in the service of your country instead of in your mothers basement living out your fantasies on xbox/ps3 you would know this.
tutone1169 3 years ago
actually i DO spend my time in the service of our country, and i didnt know that...
thammerle89 3 years ago 2
if anyone knew even the slighest bit about rail guns, they would know that there is no explosion associated with fireing it
slashest 2 years ago
besides the massive amount of friction created as the projectile travels down the barrel...
UberR3D 2 years ago
or the capitors firing, or the sound barrier.
azasher 2 years ago
i didnt know that lol all i know is it look cool and deadly
McMuffinsMan 2 years ago
the outside of the projectile gets vaporized and turned into plasma that is what your seeing
godisdead132 2 years ago 4
not a railgun only a normal gun...the last second's are from a railgun
XOROHN 3 years ago
Fake video.
Shearo 3 years ago
a depleted uranium slug is what alot of modern tanks use cos its a heavier metal than steel. nothin to do with the radiation or the metal it just causes a shitload more damage.
aR3DF0Xa 3 years ago
that look'es not like a railgun....that look'es like more an atillery cannon but not a railgun...for sure the first sequence are not a railgun...at about 0:56 till end thats a railgun but not the first sequences...for sure
XOROHN 3 years ago 2
yea looks like guys loading a cannon and puting rail gun footage at the end. You can see carbon fouling in the chamber at the begining.
vinnyraf 3 years ago
ya know a rail gun is sapose to fire a spent uranium slug right i see no radiation protection
MICMS 3 years ago
You've watched too much movies and played too many games. A rail gun is supposed to fire a piece of metal at high speeds, what that piece of metal is made of doesn't have to be spent uranium.
Excalibur01 3 years ago
whoever said a rail gun has to fire a spent uranium slug? how would that help the effectiveness?
xander6100 3 years ago 3
Depleted uranium is incredibly dense, and has unique cleaving properties. When shot out of a rifled barrel, it's spinning motion keeps the projectile from deforming, instead, it "sharpens" the projectile to keep a sharp point traveling through the armored target.'
Armor-piercing + extra kinetic energy = incredible heavy round.
nickburnin8 3 years ago 5
= incredibly scary round
bassbone1785 2 years ago 3
so railguns are uranium projectiles fired with magnets from a rifle cannon at a mach 8 speed???
xxxCRAZYLOVExxx 2 years ago
If only there was a compact version of that bad ass weapon.
Roovensally 3 years ago
Remember the first gun created, big, with one ammo and a minute to reload.
Now, you can find Beretta (for example)
zhuldjinn0013 3 years ago
what's the power generator for this gun? The current got to be huge.
erewhile 3 years ago
Solid Snake : METAL GEAR?!?!?!?!?!?!
Bratologist 3 years ago
BROTHER!
ChainbladeVideos 3 years ago
i need one of those!
wubbles989 3 years ago
Real railguns use electromagnetic rails to launch much larger versions of that tungsten projectile
DBlackthorn13 3 years ago
dude, tungsten is not magnetic...
JoeRush91 3 years ago
It dosnt have to be, it just needs to be conductive, which tungsten is. Exactly how it works im not sure but i know that much.
crackis4losers 3 years ago
more like a rail tank bazooka
essam007 3 years ago
i understand the principle, but the real question is, would it be prectical to put on a ship due to the power needed in order to fire the big schtick. My guess is that they would need to fefit an aircraft carrier sinse they alreadt have nuclear reactors.
also, a simple hollow cone or even a sphere would be better in my opinion because, if i understand correctly, the heat and speed generated would cause the projectile to be turned into molten metal anyway due to air friction.
Monkeynuts502 3 years ago
Actually, they use a homopolar generator and a simple 1 megawatt turbine to spin the homopolar generator up to speed. Once at speed, which only takes a minute or two, the short the launch foil to the rails. The entire million amp current of the homopolar generator goes into the foil generating a plasma cloud and the rails keep that cloud *charged* and *HOT*. It's that expanding cloud of plasma that pushes that projectile along.
RyuDarragh 3 years ago
The first thing i noticed was the blue plasma.
So it's not all that different from regular firearms, instead of expanding gas from powder, we have expanding plasma from a generator.
ChronicusMaximus 3 years ago
plasma is still theoretical, I don't think mankind has ever created plasma before. Maybe superheated particles, but not plasma.
toxicair 3 years ago
Plasma is created all the time! Do you have fluorescent lights in your home? Plasma. The sun? Plasma. A lightning globe? Plasma. An electrical arc? Plasma. A flame? Plasma.
AlienRelics 3 years ago 5
It isn't the plasma that pushes the projectile; it is the Lorenz force. The plasma is just a conductor, used because it is the only conductor that can stand up to a million amps of current.
AlienRelics 3 years ago
plasma is unbelievably common. we don't create it, however we can use it.
if you know about the "law of conservation of energy/mass" which applies to everything.
("X" relates to anything at all you want to stick in the sentence)
X cannot be created or destroyed, only changed.
basically, we're turning substances into plasma...
p3rs0n42 3 years ago
i understand the principle, but the real question is, would it be prectical to put on a ship due to the power needed in order to fire the big schtick. My guess is that they would need to fefit an aircraft carrier sinse they alreadt have nuclear reactors.
also, a simple hollow cone or even a sphere would be better in my opinion because, if i understand correctly, the heat and speed generated would cause the projectile to be turned into molten metal anyway due to air friction.
Monkeynuts502 3 years ago
Total Penetration! xD
Killmeplz4life 3 years ago
It's not a rail gun people! It's a test of a projectile that could be used in one.
neep28 3 years ago 15
@neep28 it is a railgun, the smoke and fire you see is caused by the high amps reeking havoc on the area around the projectile and the projectile itself, like a plasma cutter does to metal.
MnstrSubrbn 1 year ago
@MnstrSubrbn that is not a rail gun but a kenetic projectile used for one....maybe if you spent the same 15 secons by even just googling rail gun, you could find the information before making a comment like that
piatdor 9 months ago
that thing must use a lot of energy so how are they gonna put it on a ship?
DinuAndrei1993 3 years ago
uhh... that doesnt look like any railgun ive seen. the only thing that is part of a railgun is the slug.
sirMAXX77 3 years ago
i just went through some of the comments and i think i need to clear something up. others have said this but i dont think they did it in the clearist way, so that everyone can understand it. the video is showing the projectile being tested in a cannon. not a railgun. but. the projectile is made for a railgun. they are merely testing how well the projectile functions before putting it in the actual railgun. as for the footage at the end. it is probably the finished product in the actual railgun.
MVPsnow 3 years ago
Read the Top PROJCTILE TEST. Said nothing about it being a Railgun.
Alexodia 3 years ago
It's just that Quake got a fake railgun.
ancientperil 3 years ago 2
Fake! that's not a rail gun!
coolwaterdvr 3 years ago
you have no idea what you are talking about
HazeGreyAndUnderway 3 years ago
Thats no rail gun.
halomadman20 3 years ago
what's not right?
neep28 3 years ago
Yes g2y2q2. The projectile at the beginning is being loaded into a breech loading cannon, a long one. The shot of it being fired is from a completely different video. I don't think the us navy test fire rail guns in a forest!
neep28 3 years ago
Are you for real. It's not a rail gun. Look at the title of the video, it's the projectile that's being tested not a rail gun.
neep28 3 years ago
Are you for real. It's not a rail gun. Look at the title of the video, they are testing the projectile, not a rail gun.
neep28 3 years ago
they faked it from the navy's footage. the projectile they put in was pointed. The one shown on the footage was blunt. The target they used had a crosshair type thing on it, while the footage target had an emblem on it. That thing's just a really long cannon.
g2y2q2 3 years ago
MOTHERFUCKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
SmartAce1 3 years ago
Is that for real? That is the BIGGEST freakin rail gun I've seen in my entire life! WOAW.
xilliah 3 years ago
why would there be fire? a rail gun uses electricity and coils of copper wire to accelerate a meatal projectile.
Hithere99999 3 years ago
NO. This is a railgun, that means, it uses no coils. Instead of this, it uses two rails, that are under high voltage. Between that two rails, there is the projectile. When it's fired, floats a very high electrical stream through the projectile - maybe more than one million ampares!
That unimaginal big power is responsible for the fire.
Freewarplayer 3 years ago
They have a rail gun in Heli Attack 3.
destroya21 3 years ago
yeah but imagin carring this gun around
Jords464 3 years ago
WOW this video is completely false. That gun did not fire that projectile that it showed at the end of the film. That first gun was not a railgun but a standard cannon. The last part of the video was a completely different weapon which was a railgun put there to make it look like it came from that cannon.
firewarrior40k 4 years ago 3
correct, that railgun is the navy's u can see on other videos here on youtube
Assi2004 4 years ago
yea, ur rite, that was not a railgun, that was a cannon, and they put the bullet in a insulator (plastic), railgun bullets need to be conductive so the current can pass through it...
sbjhehe 3 years ago
so true
if its fired by magnets then why was their a giant fireball comeing out of the wall
hidumboidiot 3 years ago
there are massive amount of current passing through the projectile and down the length of the gun therefor the small sabots ont the projectile willl ignite causing the fire
Sarge1945 3 years ago
That's not right at all...
driver9i 3 years ago
It's explosively injected into the barrel
LSLencrypted 3 years ago
At 5 miles per second, the air friction creates hot gas (plasma) there is no ignition of any sort.
Dazubegener 3 years ago
plasma? wtf... master chief wasn't born yet dude
MrSocko619 4 years ago
lol, there is such thing as plasma and its easily created
91MikeH91 4 years ago
This argument about "it is a railgun" "no it is not" is just plain dumb. Go read the original test at the Naval Warfare site: this is a test of the PROJECTILE for the naval railgun using a STANDARD BREACHLOADING ARTILERY PIECE to fire the projectile.
The gun featured in the video is NOT a railgun.
Now I KNOW some moron is going to come along and say "yeah it is" but you can verify the information I at the Naval Warfare site (and get your own copy of the original vid)
conotoxin 4 years ago 4
im sorry but that was most deffinitly not a rail gun. that was just a testing of a new projectile in a standard cannon. a magnetic rail gun would have a large array of electromagnetic coils spaced evenly along a rail hence the name railgun , not a 1940's model naval cannon
ironman734u 4 years ago
rail guns don't fire projectiles they fire a straight beam of plasma, but coil guns fire projectiles.
Arfexnex 4 years ago
uhm they fire solid rounds. Not plasma.
Alexodia 4 years ago 4
Lol, Plasma isn't yet able to be harnessed... Not large amounts like you would see in Halo or movies. Sure you can get minor jolts and such, but we're not going to be seeing "plasma rifles" anytime soon. Railguns are not plasma-guns, but projectile guns. They use magnets to propel a projectile.
Zollikoffer 4 years ago
Actually plasma is able to be harnessed, Boeing is testing plasma-based weaponry and it is a pretty basic concept:
Hydrogen is put in a magnetic bottle, Superheated to plasma, one end of the bottles magnetic field is lowered and the plasma goes out through the weakend field. However the plasma will only go a few inches because of the atmospheric pressure
xtremeweaponz 3 years ago
Even in space it would cool down rapidly.
Its like a burning hairspray ball....I would try to compress it...
But you are not talking about the airborne laser carried of a boing right?
AnselmoFanZero 3 years ago
you have been playing too many video games... even Wiki has the facts straight
southwest82 4 years ago
heh, acualy for arfexnex, hes sort of right if a plasma cannon were to come out it would be called a rail gun and to the other acualy we have harnessed plasma, its not that hard acualy jsut ionize a gas and boom plasma, any way we have plasma torches nfor cutting jsut no way to make it go more then a foot
swords619 4 years ago
That was a cannon barrel with a breach. You can't just retrofit a cannon into a rail gun. Someone has done some editing here.
rocktruggy03 4 years ago
this is real
calibound6 4 years ago
it's a edit job of a nuw projectile, for use in a rail cannon, and the jan 31st railgun test.
Dragonx0562 4 years ago
Yes, it's technically a railgun. There's no warhead, it's a solid metal projectile with a sabot that gets destroyed upon firing. The sabot serves the purpose of allowing an aerodynamic projectile to properly complete the circuit along the rails, without causing the projectile to be arc-welded in place. It makes sense that it would vaporize/combust as seen in this video versus other concepts where it was discarded like the shuttle's booster rockets. Railguns usually aren't like the movies.
squirrelkinesis 4 years ago
That doesn't make it a rail gun. The video title is railgun projectile test, It's not a test of a railgun but of the projectile.
neep28 4 years ago
and this did work, obviously!
TheoneknownasAndy 4 years ago
it is a railgun
watch the video!
TheoneknownasAndy 4 years ago
is that the gun from the game doom
calibound6 4 years ago
moron rail gun is magnetic that means no friggin flames
mlink421 4 years ago
If you got no clue whats going on stfu -_- so many smartasses on utube...
The projectile gets heated up by the magnetic field and probably friction as well.
-> plasma/flames
AnselmoFanZero 4 years ago
That's not a fucking railgun.
AlfaTampio 4 years ago
yes it is
calibound6 4 years ago
It's not a railgun.
neep28 4 years ago
約１分からレールガンの映像。
kitag 4 years ago
火薬使ってるじゃんｗ
tgotz 4 years ago
言ってるの推進については、メソッドのですか？
newby0713 4 years ago
fake..
odumodum 4 years ago
Fake..
odumodum 4 years ago
Freakin wicked. Solid metal object being fired up to 5,000 mph, by harnasing electricity. I want one.
xulmedia 4 years ago
thats NOT a railgun, lol..
faheemthedream2007 4 years ago
Yes it is a railgun, the flame you see is a combination of the sabbot being eradicated and the mach 5 shockwave coming off the back of the projectile. Remember when talking those kinds of speeds there's a reason explosives are not required, raw kinetic impact. I'd love to see the crater that thing leaves.
popecorkyxxiv 4 years ago
=\ Assuming that's where the fire comes from (I don't see the carbon, I don't see how it has any fuel to burn unless you're saying that metal catches fire or something...), why do I not see huge coils wrapped around the barrel?
bluewker 4 years ago
because it's not a coil gun.
Blinkey99 4 years ago
remarkable peircing power now if we can only pierce the strongest carbon in the world which is 100x stronger than steel
Kenny23jump 4 years ago
What did they wanna do?
afloyt 4 years ago
Yea. You know what that means right? With a Rail Gun that powerful and able to shoot that far, now the United States can use electro-magnetic energy to launch Nukes. That way, they wont be in violation of any peace treaties.
robissogreat 4 years ago
Supply me with a link which includes the treaties which explicitly states that the method of launch has anything to do with the legality of deployment of nuclear devices. Thank you.
TubeTrollPatrol 4 years ago 3
yeah wtf is that guy talkin about.
michu070 4 years ago
look for information on the hot shot nuclear artillery cannon, developed during the 1950's.
i'd imagine that the amount of current dissipated through the sabot of a railgun and the extreme electromagnetic flux during firing would make loading any kind of sophisticated payload, such as a nuclear weapon, very difficult.
perdidopunk 4 years ago
you are an ass.
quesefodam10vezes 4 years ago
The force would crush the warhead in the gun, thus annihilating anyone who was stupid enough to try such a thing.
tovasshi 4 years ago
KICK ASS!!!
killforfunandmoney69 4 years ago
pimp
lolnoob1374 4 years ago
Metal Gear?! lol
mechanism8 4 years ago 3
Ill pass on getting shot by that thing!
darkrx777 4 years ago
notice how they decided to blow a hole into the actual naval research emblem. that says they would like a little more money to keep working for em.lol
sirjulez2004 4 years ago 3
yea, AWESOME
JustLurkingAround 4 years ago
all right u show that evil peice of paper whos boss
webster1905 4 years ago 2
Hurray for warfare! Population control yeah!
staphinfection 4 years ago
fucking sweet
ItsScottReed 4 years ago
Kick ass. Where can i get one of those.
Jetfanatic 4 years ago
OH SH1T!!111!!1ONE!!1ONE
Jibb321 4 years ago
wow..., looks destructive
tilasir 4 years ago
Fuck that is one big ass SAVO round!!!!
litllebk 4 years ago
It's actually a "sabot" round. I think I read that this one hits the target at around Mach 5. That's a lot faster than the ones coming out of a tank. Scary to be on the receiving side of that one...
deliconker 4 years ago
AWESOME!
beefforhire 4 years ago 2