1/31 Railgun Test

this is a serious fuckin weapon..... il bet you the USA is spending billions on it and will deffently be the first to have one in service

Plasma don't look like that fire.

in the start i thought this was a smugled weapon from mars or something. You can use it in COD5

not raygun, RAILGUN

The fire you see is plasma trailing the projectile. Due to the extremely high currents in the rail arching occurs between the rail and projectile as the projectile moves between the rails. The arc is so hot that it ionizes the air around the projectile thus creating the fireball you see. Some of the fireball could also be created by the ridiculous amount friction and metal fragments being vaporized by the plasma.

Which I said I understood, and explained with the logic of a "kinetic penetrator". If I throw a really extremely heavy dense piece of metal like tungsten, tungsten alloy, DU, or something of the like.. Without an explosive charge, it's still kinetic energy.

If you super compress nitrogen and oxygen with a flammable substance (fuel) you essentially get a piston car engine. And NO (Nitric Oxide) (Not Nitrous Oxide which is N2O or laughing gas). But it's simply pollution caused as by a byproduct of 'fuel+nitrogen+oxygen'. So, as stated before SOMETHING ELSE is burning here.

one more thing, the only thing I can think of, is super compressing oxygen makes a very highly oxidized substance 'extremely' oxidized. Therefore, introduce another agent (nitrogen which is in the air we breath) and an "oil" you will get flames. Organic materials become flammable with an oxidizer.. My understanding is that they put a 'lubricant' on the barrel that ignites with the compression of oxygen and friction.. The Lubricant (if there is one) is what I believe would be igniting.

Now I'll make another point: Oxygen Compression. Liquid Oxygen is super cooled due to it's super compressed state. Oxygen requires a chemical agent to ignite. (Gasoline, Flammable Vapors, etc). Both High Energy GAS and High Energy Oxidizers are needed to create flames or a flammable medium! Oxygen doesn't just explode. (Hence our atmosphere isn't on fire).. If you guys are trying to justify what the flames are, I'd like some 'actual' 'answers'.

Thanks for completely ignoring my question and point.