Rail Gun Naval Test Shot

[Jeddaven]

I don't care who or what attacks us, they're fucked. LASERs, and now this? They're fucked. Period.

[Mosse190]

Now that's what I'd call a sudden death.

[BlueHawkPictures17]

Aliens are fucked in the ass

[Lucky777Yo]

If this is unclassified, who knows how big the ones that are being tested right now are!

[Grumppy1973]

1 rpd

[TheDarkNobleOne]

Can somebody please help me understand the Lorentz part of a railgun? I read about it and it says that it works perpendicular to the magnetic field and current. I don't fully understand that part. I understand the right hand rule with wires. Does the Lorentz law a harder form of the Motor Principle where you point your fingers to the direction of the magnetic force(which is up) and thumb is the direction of current(which is from positive to negative rail) and the palm would be the force. Help!

[AnthonyCMusic]

2:40 OMG! Leonard from BBT got a new job?

[NorStarReviews]

I hope it doesn't take this long to load it on a naval vessel lol. Could sink the frigate with a RHIB full of guys and some C4.

[crossvariation]

@NorStarReviews Well, during tests, everything is slow in order provide accurate results. I'm pretty sure the real thing will be as easy to use as any guns on a battleship

[kiwishuffler]

METAL GEAR!!

[SLBPhantom]

they should try to do this with a coin, if you see what I am getting at

[moofy69]

@SLBPhantom I'm a fan of Misaka "Railgun" Mikoto too

[havoc5011]

Hey the mac gun is pretty big, im sure over time it will condense.

[brunohm1]

rail guns are the future.. they just need some sort of evolution.. but they are the future!!!!

[Furaxxxxx]

@brunohm1 Yes, one could say that modern firearms today has evolved from cannons, so its a good possibility that other fancy stuff will come in more practical sizes eventually.

[dougspair]

...So...to all the non-believers...this real rail gun is nothing like you expected...?? Much technical stuff..computers, BIG cables to charge and discharge a bunch of BIG capacitors... But makes a nice loud bang...eh..?

[damianfloyd1129]

I am around the weird part of Youtube yet again.

[74jojo]

Meh the Q2 railgun is waaay better ;b

[CommanderTyphoon555]

Chuck Norris' sperm.

[ttgfedrhiui]

Rate of fire: 20 rounds per year.

[pigwigpa]

@ttgfedrhiui your optimistic

[SporecraftLord]

That's not biribiri.

[jclacson]

THE MAC GUN! <.<

[tigersebel]

@jclacson no MAC is gaus and no railgun

[nAthaNkco]

i thought railgun makes noise like "pew" "pew"

[TheRottenburger]

skip to 3:35 for the action

[Ipwnweniwant2]

oh crap we missed!



[Trinityk7s]

Anyone want to volunteer to stand in front of the Railgun :3

[slayerman1992]

0:47 totally checking his facebook

[TruWuFFY]

tactical assault team: All your base are belo..

Engineer: WAIT a moment, give us a few minutes to set this up ok? no need to be in such a bloody rush, god... so pushy :l

Team Leader: err.. ok

*engineers work diligently for a while*

Assault Team: fucksakes! hurry up already what are you doing?

Engineer #1: FIRE! * kills one person*

mothafuckin headshot! :D What now bitches!?

[then the assault team shot them all before going to have bagels at Tim Hortons]

(yes im aware its an anti-naval device)

[masterbuilder675]

Too bad coilguns are much more reliable,stronger, don't wareout as easier

[Helge129]

@masterbuilder675 not entirely true. A railgun is more reliable, and has higher firepower.

[matalac100]

RAMZA FTW!!!

[Sumdylbane]

3:31



[AgrivatedKillah]

@kpsodhi Fuck chuck norris, he's a religious nut job.

[ophello]

@AgrivatedKillah

Chuck Norris does not believe in God. God believes in him.

[matandluke1]

boooooom

[moastytoasty54]

Came here to fuck shit up.

[JWelshQ91]

Looks like a UFO killer :P

[leiru01]

skip to 3:30

[72master]

why is it called a rail gun anyway ?

[ZALHERA666]

@72master I think it's because it guides the projectile with rails or something. But don't quote me on that.

[dragon10282000]

@72master rail guns are called rail guns because they have 2 magnetic rails that propels a projectile

[MewMintArrow]

Did they get the idea this from To aru kagaku no Railgun?

[ZALHERA666]

@MewMintArrow No, Railgun got their idea of giving Misaka her power from this, not the other way around.

[SouthNJPC]

@2:05 is he standing in a safe place?

[phil656565]

From what ive heard this bad boy is the ultimate barrel burner

[SiegeTF]

1:44 would have been awesome if he was in civil war garb to load the cannon.

[DuploRabbit]

Quite a bit different than the guns Arnold Dual wielded in Eraser

[DamagedF0X]

Looks like they'd need a better projectile. That thing fell apart before it made contact with the target.

[ThegodisAbraxas]

@DamagedF0X There is a clearly defined entry and exit point. How can you post something so blatantly incorrect? You must have made a mistake, so I will award you the benefit of the doubt.

[DamagedF0X]

@ThegodisAbraxas Dude. 3:52. Crap following the projectile.....

Those pieces are not supposed to be apart from it.

Fuck, I said BEFORE CONTACT.

Stupid ass.

[ThegodisAbraxas]

@DamagedF0X I see what you mean now yet you are still incorrect and I will explain why. The test projectiles used in this experiment conducted by the Naval Dahlgren Division Labs of Virginia are made from a tungsten-titanium alloy and were designed to test heat dispersion along the barrels and megajoule capacitors, not the impact capability. A variety of test projectiles are used in this experiment, this video only shows one test fire as the rig takes days to reload.

[ThegodisAbraxas]

@DamagedF0X Obviously test projectiles of different densities would be used in order to properly catalog impact and heat dispersion data. And I like how I ask you a polite question and you call me stupid. You can say and think what you want of course In fact, I hope you do because you are most certainly smarter than everyone you will ever meet, and no one will ever have earned the right to disagree with you whilst in your presence. Good luck :P

[DamagedF0X]

@ThegodisAbraxas Test projectiles, blah blah. Bringing up test projectiles is in vain, because I stated that the projectile in the **VIDEO** fell apart.

Also, I jumped at you so hard because of your inability to understand a simple comment stating that this projectile fell apart *before* impact.

Although you mention "Entry and exit", which would be totally irrelevant.

[DamagedF0X]

@ThegodisAbraxas Still talking about different fucking projectiles used in testing and not the one in the video.

No, I'm not fucking wrong, because the evidence is in the fucking video.

And I'll have you know I do fucking work for a living.

Kinda fucking weak for you to try to attack my person and not what the argument was originally about.

That's typically a last resort move for someone that doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about.

[gaeaallard]

this does not look very efficient it has a 0.15 rpm rate 0___o

[sluslu007]

dobra koles masz w pizde namierzam ip

[SgtShakenBake]

winder it they could make it automatic....and handheld....

[silentkiller500]

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun and To Aru Majutsu no Index.... ^_^

[sleepib]

@InsidiakMFWA

You invent a superconductor that stays a superconductor when heated, and you'll have much better things to do with it than shoot it out of a cannon. Pretty pointless when you can just increase the kinetic energy so much that impact releases more energy than an explosive round could.

[SuperIreallydontcare]

@InsidiakMFWA Makes pretty good sense. You should talk to someone about that haha

[Databyter]

It seems to me that the biggest advantage of a rail gun is the velocities it is capable of firing projectiles. When mass moves at hyper speeds normal rules of penetration do not apply.

Therefore I was a bit shocked to see that they were firing this huge projectile rather than a smaller lighter one that could have done alot more damage.

[sparemat]

@Databyter i guess they're not looking for maximum damage, just if the thing is at all functional at all at that scale

[ZALHERA666]

A Certain Scientific Railgun. No? Anyone?

[Celticcondor2]

@ZALHERA666 Coins don't have enough penetrating power.

[ZALHERA666]

@Celticcondor2 The way it was animated, though. D: With a Level 5's power, I think it can rival, if not outperform this. But oh well, fiction is still fiction, I guess.

[galatix27]

@ZALHERA666 Oh what the crap. Totally just finished watching that today. And I ended up here because of a completely unrelated Cracked article. Damnitall.

[ZALHERA666]

@galatix27 Have you watched A Certain Magical Index as well?

[roonike2]

@ZALHERA666 that one was first idk why ppl watch railgun first

[ZALHERA666]

@roonike2 In my situation, I found out about Railgun before Index. I think it's hilarious that we're discussing anime here.

[sentey456]

@ZALHERA666 to aru kagaku no railgun u mofo xD

[ZALHERA666]

@sentey456 :D Misaka Mikoto FTW

[markarno1995]

@ZALHERA666 To Aru Kagaku no Railgun <3

[markarno1995]

@ZALHERA666 To Aru Kagaku no Railgun <3

[yague123]

@ZALHERA666 Misaka is def cuter that that hunk of metal :))))))

[sophgirl1]

@ZALHERA666 Yeah!

[knvncxkvbhluib]

"They just perfected it in the game and put a nuke in it instead of a simple projectile."

Ha ha, I'm sure they had a big team of engineers working night and day to perfect this weapons technology so they could animate it and put it in a game. Perfection!

[HGHyo]

not only do they have this they have the railgun that they used in transformers 2 but it's "classified"

[BIGISM11]

Thats not a fuckin rail gun?!!!?!?¿¡! Gosh a rail gun is a laser stealth nuke! Needs to play mgs4 to understand

[Rongoel]

@BIGISM11 It is a railgun.

A railgun or For railroad artillery is driven by a stong electromagnetic field that accellerates the Projektile.

Google is your freind

[coolbionicle]

@BIGISM11 Actually, the Metal Gear Solid one and this one are in fact the same technology. Play MGS 1 to understand. They just perfected it in the game and put a nuke in it instead of a simple projectile.

[VeradoonKing]

@BIGISM11

either you're trolling badly or you're ignorant?...?

[lordzeus007]

anyone who lives in any community is a communist

[DJsharp707]

@lordzeus007  lol?

[kjettpack]

what was the material they were firing at?

[GeanJin]

@kjettpack looks like reinforced steel to me

[DeHeld8]

those people should not be so cheerfull. They are making a weapon. and not only that, a weapon that will be used to further the aims of american imperialism.

[bomerman104]

@DeHeld8 you mean just like every nation is doing now don't be so quick to single out just the Americans everybody tries to make a weapon to beat the competition the reason you don't hear about other countries doing it so much is because they don't brag about it like we do quite sad when you think about it.

[DeHeld8]

@bomerman104

I'm not singeling out. it's just that this particular movie is about weapons used for american imperialism.

Any nation developing weapons deserves condemnation. for those weapons are used for the aims of the ruling class. usually to further undermine the interests of the proletariat.

[EmperorOfMars]

@DeHeld8 Filthy communist

[DeHeld8]

@EmperorOfMars

Am I a communist?

yes, most definatly.

Am I filthy?

No. I take showers regularly.

[EmperorOfMars]

@DeHeld8 I like a well humored man

[jericho51166]

That round probably costs more than I make in a year.

[vash1053]

@jericho51166 Doubt it... These things fire slugs, which are just glorified chunks of plain metal.

[MegaParker555]

@vash1053

Yeah but tiny chunks of plain metal with enough kinetic energy can reduce entire buildings to rubble.

[aixelsydevahi1]

@MegaParker555 stfu faggot no it can't.

[MegaParker555]

@aixelsydevahi1

000hhh.....you're so edgy and hardcore. Thanks for showing me how well you can trash talk to random strangers you don't know on the internet tough guy =D

[kinoholicism]

@MegaParker555 nerd

[aixelsydevahi1]

@MegaParker555 immense faggot

[MegaParker555]

@aixelsydevahi1

You're quite the bored one huh? Bad day?

[kinoholicism]

@aixelsydevahi1 nerd

[FfejTball]

@vash1053 They put a lot of work into the round fired out of this. Accuracy at the speed it's traveling isn't something a "glorified chunk of plain metal" can pull off.

[HateMagus]

@jericho51166 That is an aluminum slug. The thing that costs most is the energy required to fire this weapon.

[Sabrehockeylw29]

Honey I shrunk the Kids..... anyone?

[adask01991]

Like railgun from MGS

[timhartsaab900turbo]

cool, so is the artillary of the future? could it be converted to small arms? I wonder how far it could penetrate modern day armour.

[178Sonic]

@timhartsaab900turbo its not a service fire arm of the government anymore due to very dangerous complications with the gun

[coolbionicle]

Great! now all we need is a perfectly well Metal Gear Rex.

[planetearth1210]

Gay.

[hardcorehunter1]

@planetearth1210 What's gay about it?

[planetearth1210]

Stupid and primitive

[nolielhaven]

@planetearth1210 No. Conventional firearms are primitive. They all function on the same concept used since hundreds of years: A explosion of powder in a confined barrel propels a projectile out of the barrel with standard pressure. This is a entirely new concept: The projectile is accelerated along 2 magnetic rails and achieves speeds many times higher then standard powder based ammunition of any gun / cannon currently used. Only problem is power consumption and quick material degradation.

[wheezechisel]

Thats nothing I once put mayonnaise on a badger

[lokalllize]

@wheezechisel you are a brave man

[hardcorehunter1]

@wheezechisel damn. was it still alive when you did that?

[darrenhello2]

So they did something with Nicola Tesla's notebook that the FBI stole after his death

[TheKuzmovka]

I enjoyed the guy below's comment about fat man, and yes but I like little boy better personally, the name is ironic considering what small children do to a house, and what it did to the city it leveled... Anyhow, only 1% of roughly 186,000MPS? come on, let's be rebels and go for 1.00001

[mgospeed31]

Someone should have lit a pack of jumping jacks at 2:43...LOLOL

[TheLogicisking]

I wonder how many american kids died of preventable disease and the likes because the money that could have saved them went to making somthing like this to kill people.

[NobleMaN79]

@TheLogicisking none retard, no hospitals in the US turn away patients for lack of ability to pay. If any children in the US died from preventable disease it's because their parents are lazy, good for nothing, self-centered, irresponsible people that want, the producers of this world to take care of them and their families because they refuse to. If logic is KING, tell me, how is it logical that you value a person's need over another ability? Your name is a joke.

[TheLogicisking]

@NobleMaN79 I said "preventable diseases and the likes" not just preventable diseases. What I mean by "the likes" is preventable death in general, such as starvation(which happens to be a problem in america, no just third world countries) America spends far too much on its millitary(around 660 billion) while the second highest spender, china, only spend around 100 to 200 billion a year. If we spent only around 250 billion a year on the millitary, then more kids could go to school and (continued)

[TheLogicisking]

@NobleMaN79 (continuing startes here) we could cure cancer and other diseases, as well as feed our kids, with the money that is currently being wasted on guns we don't need.The truth of the matter is that we do not need to spend 663 billion on guns when that is more than the next 11 biggest spenders combined, even more so because most of these 11 are our allies. You say that my name is a joke, but you don't sound very noble NobleMaN79.

[NobleMaN79]

@TheLogicisking I wouldn't expect that someone who assumes that it is the state's responsibility to coddle it's citizenry would understand that a government's first priority is to protect it's citizen's from foreign and domestic threats and to up hold the law of the land. Not provide free medical care and food, if you can't provide the very basics for your children, maybe you shouldn't have had any. It's called abortion and the last I checked it was legal in the USA.

[NobleMaN79]

@NobleMaN79 (cont) there is no civilized area in the United States of America that you cannot find, food, shelter, and healthcare even if you have NOTHING. Just don't expect that you are entitled to it because you are not entitled to my effort, my mind, or my life. These are things that I will only give willingly, and I will kill or be killed before I become a slave to the likes of your kind! You who hold forced sacrifice up like beacon of light, as you hold down your betters and gut them.

[NobleMaN79]

@NobleMaN79 My Nobility stems from my graciousness, principles, and fairness. Not from your arbitrary judgement of what is noble. I have not one friend who would not call me a generous person, but I give to whom I desire and will not have another force their will upon me. I am my own master, this is true liberty, that is true freedom.

[shawzie1916]

@NobleMaN79 Abortion is only legal in some states last I checked. State law still has the loop-hole to disagree with federal law.

[NobleMaN79]

@shawzie1916 It's considered a right protected under the constitution, it has been legal in all 50 states since Roe v. Wade. It's called the internet it's full of billions of answers, try using it for it's intended purpose.

[shawzie1916]

@NobleMaN79 Wikipedia is not an accurate source and is thus regarded by all educational faculties as false. As I said last I checked, but I dont live in USA so I dont know. But I do know the following states have a trigger-ban in the event of the Roe legislation being overturned, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. With Mississippi only have 1 abortion clinic to service the entire state.

[Jargonwhat]

@shawzie1916 I think you mean "unreliable", not "false". Big difference.

[shawzie1916]

@Jargonwhat Nope, all the teachers I had over the years would mark you down as an F if they found any material, even a sentence from the wikipedia site in any written material. They constantly refered to the site as false...

[NobleMaN79]

@shawzie1916 I'm sorry when did I say use Wikipedia? Also the last you checked the result was the same, nothing has changed since the last time you checked it was legal then too, unless you checked before 1973. I'm not sure what point you are making in pointing out the trigger-ban in the event Roe is overturned the fact remains it is still legal today in every state in the union. I can only assume a total moron would be arguing in such a manner without logic or reason.

[FFS1NICO]

@NobleMaN79 a total moron would argue over the internet, even if he's right.

[NobleMaN79]

@FFS1NICO The internet is a information sharing tool, this includes raw data, facts, entertainment and education. Only a complete fool would think that debate on this medium is useless. In fact it is much more effective because of it's public setting. Little Anons should keep there spot in the dark little corners ridiculing their betters with a circle jerk philosophy of what is intelligence.

[FFS1NICO]

@NobleMaN79 not on youtube.

[skater44321]

@FFS1NICO (y) can't argue whit that

[1HorridHenry1]

@FFS1NICO and you are so right about that.

[armandux1productions]

@FFS1NICO No if hes right then hes not a moron but the person wrong is a moron if he doesnt apologise that he made a mistake

[AgrivatedKillah]

@FFS1NICO But you just argued with him.

[fidstang]

Good science project, not exactly useful in military apps.

[jimmymohoney]

@fidstang r u serious these fucking own the current guns aboard naval vessels, solid state lasers and railguns are being developed for the zumwalt destroyer.

[fidstang]

@jimmymohoney Yes, key word is developed. Will they ever be implemented, I guess we will have to wait and see. The have a long way to go and like a lot of projects, the cost might not make them an effective option.

[jimmymohoney]

@fidstang it would probably cost the same as another destroyer to implement these into one.

[jimmymohoney]

@fidstang sorry meant 2 say free electron laser

[theeyeofthestorms]

Kinetic energy is 0.5mv^2

v>6000m/s for a 50 gr slug.

In this case it means we get >0.5*0.05*6000^2=900k jouls or at least 2 kilo tnt equivalent of an explosion.

I love railguns..

Now only need to increase top speed to 1% of lightspeed and use 20 kilo slugs. Thats 22kilotonnes of explosive power.. fat man anyone?

[cobrachoppergirl]

Undeniable proof that our government is developing weapons to kill humans.

[TimBlankJ]

@cobrachoppergirl well thats nothing new

[superior0kaboozle]

Reload time? 1day?

[Knightess]

I can't stop looking at that guy's haircut...

[NoahLDiamond]

The quake Rail Gun is in it's testing phases! YAY! Now all we need is to combine it with the Cyberdyne HAL suit.

[furryordie]

lol, dildo cannon...

[gzuz1010]

WE missed! RELOAD!!!!

[117khan]

Oh, and another question:

How fast does it shoot?

(in MPH or KPH)

[117khan]

Just asking you all, where could Bungie get the idea of a magnetically powered weapon?

And yes, the MAC-Gun is a railgun.

[TheAlmightyKarl]

@117khan Coilgun, actually

[sideswipe123103]

but i thought that a railgun was a sniper but with powerful plazma shots as the ammo

[DarkxRebelx]

So this was done in 2007, why haven't we upped the antee and strapped this on a ship yet?

[uhwaykin]

@DarkxRebelx Because the heat generated during fire is so intense that the barrel needs to be replaced after every two firings. It's incredibly ineffective, however powerful.

[paystobeawinner1]

The navy plays too much HALO.

(MAC gun from halo)

[turbooggyboy]

@paystobeawinner1 Or any other fictional universe that uses railguns....

[homicidalking1]

3:30

[REAPER3382]

What a mobile fiering platform

[artofnick]

why does the round have to pneumatically loaded!?