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The future is NOW old man!
Thumbs up mate
Says the young man that got a little too excited 😂😂😂
Every time you set foot on the Demo Ranch is a treat, Scott.
Just don’t go bending the trigger of the future.
Malcolm in the middle!!
For those who are wondering, a Railgun uses 2 rails that are both differently charged to propel a chunk of metal down range, while a coil gun uses copper coils wrapped around a barrel. Both use electricity, just slightly different in operation.
Exactly, both are using electro magnetic fields to launch projectiles. Same thing but different designs and some physics involved.
@@ch-ev5ee Coil guns normally are usually much lower velocity
Thanks for the info Chuck's Grandson! :)
@@Stevie-J true. We need some advancement in material.
@@JehM- lol I'm just a nerd who was forced to learn to fight cause bullies threatened me for getting better grades in Math and Science.🤣
Watching you two miss them watermelons over and over helped me better understand why stormtroopers could never hit Skywalker.
turns out Luke never had plot armor, the stormtroopers just had shit weapons
😂 just 😂
@@louthinator That's called cost effective military mass production.
Nerd Alert
Only Imperial Stormtroopers-and KZheadrs-are so precise...
The coil guns sound louder in the video because you're using compression filters on the audio data. Compression causes all the sounds present to appear within the same volume range when replayed, loud sounds are reduced and soft sounds are amplified. I'm a bass player so I have to use compression while recording, mixing, playing live etc. (This is very very simplified, compression can effect audio in a huge range of ways)
no-one asked
This guy FLACs
Since some other commenters like to ridicule knowledge... I just want to say thank you for the explanation. Some of us like to learn why things work like they do.
I actually did not know that. that’s cool! You are very smart
@@Bullybobjoe haha, thanks but nah, I'm just terminally curious and love learning
“Put a thumb in that” Brutal Matt… 😂
I laughed so hard
Oof
Why do I think this will be the comment with the thousands of likes
Lolz
That shit got me good
I feel this line of firearms has potential. It may be big while not as strong as a normal bullet, but then again, computers used to be the size of buildings
I thought that low powered ones could be a potential less lethal option for police rather then tasers or night sticks.
@@sibsart2039 I was thinking the same thing that this gun has huge potential for non lethal force for police such as for riots as well.
@@sibsart2039 ah yes, BBs stop people...
@@vyor8837 There are actual riot control BB-guns that are set to maim.
I give it 2-3 years before future versions of these things can penetrate level 3 armor. They fired the disc ones just under a YEAR ago and look how far the tech has gone since then? Shit is CRAZY, my dudes.
Forgotten Weapons has covered the EMG-01 and the newest model of the EMG-02. Very cool the innovations that are happening. Finally all those times you “reloaded” a battery power drill will pay off.
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"Put a thumb in that!" That legit had me crying PS, absolutely love when Scott is on the channel together. Yall seem to just have so much fun together and it shows on the video. I've said it before and I'll say it again, yall look like two young boys screwing around with your toys. Cheers!
That was an inside joke for subscribers. 😆😆
“Thumb in that” made me laugh also. Agreed that guests on the channel are always welcome.
My stomach still hurts from the thumb thing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was a big f u!
Fr I felt like that was a violation lol 💀
These are going to be so sick 10 years from now
10 years? I give it 5 more years till some nut shit is made
The military already has a rail gun witch correct me if I'm wrong, but has the same mechanic's only 1000x stronger?
Facts
@@twlie55 i think its mounted on a navy ship or something so its pretty massive. idk could be wrong but thats just what i saw somewhere once
@@KaineTheConq 4 awhile I
You know I was actually talking to a guy who was working on a prototype for something like those. End up having a 500 grain caseless standard looking bullet. But everything based on his specs since he couldn't get it any more powerful based on size capacity for batteries. I told him to lower the weight of that bullet drastically. He's only getting 350 ft per second which is about the speed of an arrow.
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Alot of work for something to be the same as the most basic projectile weapon in history.
With -e triggers, the rate of fire can be synced with the discharge of every cartridge loaded but with the trigger pull itself a minute one gram, requiring the trigger a rebound of -l gram before the next pull of the trigger.
How many millions in fails R&D have our tax dollars spent on these toys?
@@BFusey Not enough.
Hahahahahahha lmao
Kentucky Ballistics bent the trigger on the new coil gun. Effectively turning a semi auto into burst possibly full auto. The AFT is on their way because "bump stocks."
Bend stocks.
Thanks for the spoiler
No cause people announce things the big brother doesnt need to know. Hint delete the comment. By haveing their acronym in the comment it will have them looking.
@@anthonyj.adventures9736 ATF,FBI,CIA
@@rs.7610 Whoops, sorry bud. When I posted this there were close to 700 comments and thought would be burried.
I'm sure it's been said already, but I would like to see what these would do on a ballistics dummy.
Yeah me too (not for particular reason)
I was actually waiting for scott to ask matt to shoot him 😂
Some scratches max. Maybe an eye shot does hard damage,but yes. I like to see that too!👍
I am sure someone is developing better, more effective projectiles for this type of propulsion system.
Gun Jesus did some fps readings.
the fact that Kentucky Ballistics and DemolitionRanch make funny intros is GOLDEN
Of course. Maybe, maybe. See also forgotten weapon Coilgun HS-47: kzhead.infoBPReIoZ-2Nw?feature=share kzhead.info/sun/Y7t_YaZ_pJuqanA/bejne.html
they are to good 🤣
calling Scott "muscle man" effed me up so hard i can't stop laughing. never a dull moment at demo ranch
Reminds me of the Gauss rifle from Fallout
Wonder which one is based off the other
Ong it’s sick
Except the Gauss rifle in fallout can pop heads and shoot blue electricity at insane velocities
“EEE-leck-trisss-iteee!” Always love a Scott crossover!!!
Jesus is coming f
@@dxnixble on who?
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Scotts voice changed so quickly from having fun to concerned when he shot it the air. Guys been around a lot of guns I'm 100% sure he knows trigger safety. Braking the trigger, now we know how he survived the slap round with them big strong fingers
*breaking*
Yeah, I don't think your supposed to stick a thumb in a gun xD
He's all thumbs
The disadvantage with coil guns is that you have to manage ammo and propellant (the battery) as two independent things, while in current ballistic guns the cartridge contains both projectile and propellant.
I wonder if, someday, that issue will be rectified in a similar way. My immediate thought is each bullet being attached to a battery that contains just enough power to fire it. It's probably unrealistic, but it's fun to think about.
@@thorzap1374 Something like that would be a nightmare for logistics and be way too expensive.
@@kitsune3752 "nightmare for logistics and be way too expensive." For us, sure. Hundred, two hundred years down the line? Who knows.
@@hipperguy1654 I feel like a better solution (at least for our time) is rechargeable battery packs so their individual service life is significantly longer per unit
@@thorzap1374honestly why not just have a battery in the magazine itself?
"That kind of alarmed me" man Scott is absolutely the funniest gun guy on YT no question about it. So happy he made it out of that horrible accident and keepin on strong. My fav channel for sure
The best thing about this is that it's just fun. Just two friends having a blast. That's a good feeling.
Doesn’t even feel like a video, I feel like I’m in there with them it’s so fun.
Man. These have advanced so much in the last 10 years. I remember watching footage of people using these to launch nails, and struggling to get them to stick in cardboard. Very impressed.
It’s fine to watch you after a long time . Thanks Keep making more videos
“Put a thumb in that!” lol that got me! I love seeing you 2 together in videos.. 2 of my favorite shooting KZheadrs! Keep them coming guys!!
So fun fact, coil guns dont just turn on and projectile comes out, the coils also have to turn off when the projectile pass. It it does not then the projectile would slow down and eventually just get stuck in the barrel because of the magnets.
That was explained in the beginning
@Matthew Harrup eat it
They look like capacitors to me. Not coils.
@Bronze Wolf Coil and railguns are very different he is correct these are coil guns
@@J.C... So you are correct. The things on the bottom are large capacitors. When a coil gun fires a round the magnetic field needs to be both generated and collapsed very quickly so capacitors are use for there very quick charge and discharge rates.
Joking aside, there's a great real example of perfect gun control/safety discipline here. Firstly, he didn't have his finger on the trigger but secondly, he still had the weapon pointed in a safe resting position. Yes it was funny but with less thought on safety then someone could have caught one in the face!
Agree completely. Muzzle discipline, love too see it.
I’m shocked that you’re impressed by gun safety. I mean honestly what a stupid thing to say
@@frankgarrett2517 not all gun youtubers display this level of safety. We only notice it when something goes wrong. Edwin would have shot his camera buddy in the face if he was in this video and had the same trigger failure
@@frankgarrett2517 I think the reason is that with so many guns in media being handled like fancy toys, acknowledging something so simple like "dont touch the danger parts of a gun" needs to be more demonstrated
@@JD-wn3cc no. I don’t only notice it when something goes wrong and I’m sure I’m not the only one 🤦🏻♂️
You both rock. Love your videos brothers
i love when you guys get together! so much fun!
Mass Effect rifles are closer than ever to becoming a reality
Can't wait for them to ban 30 round thermal clips
@@_0451_ please, we have to go through unlimited heat sinks with frictionless materials first...
@@devildog1989 "I don't know it just seems like a step backwards" - Conrad Verner
@@PeferG17 "it's not a step back, it means a higher rate of fire." Cmdr Sheppard, probably
Look up the hacksmiths mass effect gun
The "hollowpoints" whistling in the air was so cool.
Came here to say this
hollow point really went "weeeee"
One thing I can say for sure is you guys have way to much fun! I would love a day at the range with you guys!!
i love that you can hear the whistle of the rounds going by on the slomo
The two best people to "demonstrate" the possible future of fire arms. But most definitely the best two to have fun doing it.
They should have Hickcock 45 on the show to
And the nicest thing for range use is the fact that you can get one of those wheeled magnet pickers and recover a large amount of the spent rounds quickly.
or one of those magnetic cranes they use at docks just press the button and all the ammo and targets are cleaned right up
And the fact that its cheaper since they are just shaped pieces of solid metal.
0:46 perfectly cut Kentucky scream! Letfkngooooo!! 3:58 now he's Rambo! 11:57 IT'S THE MOMENT WE ALL WERE WAITING FOR! _TWO HILLBILLIES GETTING IN THERE & KILLING THE ZIMPOSTER!!!!!!!_
Fun fact: railguns and coilguns are *not* firearms! They contain no explosive anywhere in the assembly or cartridge. (Apart from the electric components, but those aren’t actually supposed to explode)
I've been really interested in these ever since Ian talked about them on ForgottenWeapons a while back. ArcFlash has made great progress in coil/Gauss 'rifles'.
How much are they?
@@mrpineapple3942 the big one is like $4,000 the little one is like $1300
@@TACTICALwaffle2 dang, I can’t afford that lol
@@mrpineapple3942 don't worry, in a couple years when these are junk compared to the newer tech I'm sure these will be cheaper lol they'll just be less cool by then. But if you grew up relatively poor then that's normal anyway hahaha I can't afford basically any guns he features. I still have just my 22 I got when I was 13. I love it but I've been dying to get something new but just can't afford it. Gun prices are insane!
Not worth financing even if you could finance these weapons poor gang
0:45 "put a thumb in that!" I fucking died holy shit that is in the running for best jokes ever made on this channel
Fr
I like how in the cinematic scene they filmed, the small guns, like all the rounds just bounce off his chest and do little to no damage at all
The ending was sick
Scott might be one of the first dudes to fire two coil guns at the same time.
Maybe. But I know if I was the one making these, I would do it.
100 Years Later: Historians: Find the evidence people!!! Find!!! There must have been a great war that occured here, look at how many bullets are here.
a magnificent war, one not fought by man due to the lack of human remains!
@@frizzy3249 can't speak for other countries but we bring back as many of our dead as we can for the family to bury, I think
@@carlmccartney1025 yeah but its impossible to gather every one
A war that spanned across time according to the ammo used
Stolen
😂😂🤣....that intro...for real! 😍🏆
The slow mo when you dual wielded at the balloons straight up sounds like a lofi drum beat
I love how these two came from friendly rivalry to solid friendship
People like them don't have many enemies. I think that it's cool too.
@@letsdothis9063 with all their guns I don't think they'd have enemies for long ;)
Didn't know they were former rivals. @@letsdothis9063 I'd say their enemies don't tend to last very long
This is like having a tiny Randy Johnson in a barrel chucking pieces of steel at things. Pretty darn cool, can't wait til Scott blows them up.
If it were really a tiny Randy it woulda found that bird that wouldn’t shut up and obliterate it.. Your comment was awesome by the way.
I'm the sixty-ninth like over here, dudes!
hed have to make some pretty serious precautions all things considered, cuz the ammo isnt even the most dangerous part of those guns... its the capacitors powering the entire thing
The perfect weapon for Home Defense! Nobody takes you seriely, so no counter fire, and enough force for a laser guided headshot. Every wall will block the shot so your family in the bath are safe!
puts me in aww every time they hit kentucky with a thumb joke lol gets me every time
I'm surprised how underpowered these are. Based on the size of those capacitors I was expecting more of a burst-into-flames-velocity kind of projectile speed.
They need high amp lithium polymere battery so they can dump faster.
It mostly has to do with the bullets changing form during flight. I've seen several of these, and the main problem is the same problem you have with muskets: the bullets don't stay straight after some distance. You can't use rifling for these, but maybe something similar to the fletching arrows have might help. Correction: The bullets don't stay straight during flight after an effective range. They will still pack a punch, but the force of impact will be distributed over a wider area instead of on a single point.
That's what I expected. When he said 200 - 230 feet per second i thought maybe he mistakenly said that. then they shot it & it sounded like the old spring fired cork guns. 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder if you could rifle the bullet instead of the barrel?
@@mazz9487 the big ones also fire at about 10% the muzzle velocity of a more or less standard handgun Honestly, I'm disappointed
“My finger wasn’t on the trigger.” That’s what Alec said
Oof. This comment counts as murder 🤣
0:37 Technically, if you look at the chemistry of gunpowder, it "runs" on electricity too, as it relies on the movement of electrons between atoms.
Forgotten Weapons just put out a video on Arcflash labs latest model the GR 2. New configuration power source is a drill battery. It has a much larger single capacitor that's been moved to the rear. All in all a better design
Wonder how viable it would be to put the capacitors/batteries in a backpack and have an umbilical with thick wires carrying the charge to the coils. You could put shielding on a quick release backpack in case anything goes wrong with the capacitors/batteries, make the capacitors/batteries larger and make the handheld portion much lighter.
Slowdown there, Kaneda. Akira is still a little ways away.
The added inductance of the wires would round off the pulse from the capacitor. The magnetic field from the coil would not drop as quickly, causing drag on the projectile. I don't know how much of an effect that will have on performance.
@@JamieStuff the inductance and resistance of the wires would be minimal especially if the voltage goes up drastically due to battery size.
What about supercapaciters?
@@dananorth895 you mean large capacitors? It would depend on weight and size of electrical system that could fit. Power/battery life are inverse, the more juice you give it the less times you can use it until recharge
Dude…I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone have “too much fun” until I watched this video. Great stuff here fellas.
It's fun watching something being developed. I imagine in 50 years, these will be king
I mean these guys are super weird, but they always get a smile out of me, my two favorite gun channels.❤❤
i'd like to see what these at full charge would do to a block of ballistics gel. especially with the larger projectiles.
Maybe connect the gun to a pair of car batteries for a .50 Cal version 😭
Or a Tesla wall minigun 🤤
Imagine if the metal bolts used were sharpened.
@username That is why every single country developing these guns for actual use are developing them for carriers and forts.
A plug-in window sill mounted version
these need to be added as another caliber for pen testing. They're just so cool
What it needs is more power for piercing and penetration, cause to me it just sounded week in my opinion.
@@metalpunk1234 yeah this technology is still pretty early and not that powerful, so far very few can shoot supersonic, give it a couple of years and you will see coilguns that are smaller AND shoot significantly faster
@@Breadlootgoblin your right and besides, I do believe that the cyberpunk era is also becoming truer than usual when it comes to advance military drones, weapons and robotics.
MetalStorm. The 1,000,000 round firing system. Invented about 20 years ago right here in Australia (and you say we don't have guns 😅) Electronic bullets.. Insane stuff
you guys have way too much fun for two guys , let me in on that action!!
3:09 Scott has the greatest trigger discipline I've even seen. In some of his videos I've seen him kind of flinch after shooting something up close that violently exploded and every time he takes his finger out of the trigger-well before re-directing his firearm. He's top level on safety. Lol, or as least until he decides to slap something. Glad your still with us buddy. My guess is the last two times Scott pulled the trigger were delayed by the electricity recharging. Lol nevermind Scott must of ate his Wheaties.
That or spinach.
Crazy how fast these coil guns are advancing, this was pretty dang cool!
personally i think coil guns are advancing pretty slow, isnt really any change in the last 10+ years imo
its not changed at all
You mean turning batteries on to charge magnets in a particular order? This is nothing more than a gimmick, did you have scalextrics when you were a kid? Same deal, except those cars moved way faster.
The batteries/capacitors/coils needed to make them as powerful as real guns alone would be world changing technology. They basically would need to 20x more energy dense, they would enable so much crazy technology. For perspective the last 2x increase in energy density made electric planes and drone taxis make sense. 20x would mean your personal little drone taxi could fly for 5 hours straight. Any corded power tools would be replaced with battery powered ones. Robots could run for 30 hours without recharging. Cars would go 12k miles without recharging. Your phone runs a month without recharging. I wouldn't be surprised if hover boards would be feasible then. Basically imagine any really power hungry application will be made portable. So yeah, it will still take a while lol.
They look really heavy
At around 11:01, you said you're not sure how they could rifle a coilgun and I have an idea for that: make a combination coilgun & railgun, with the rails made of a non-magnetic metal and twisted around in a helix shape -- keeping the wires apart with equal spacing, and still having high voltage DC running through them to accelerate the projectile in addition to the magnetic acceleration from the coils.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about but I’m very intrigued
@@firstpersonsnooter2519 well, it would be something like having low gauge wires wrapped in tandem around a tube of the same diameter as the projectile, in a pattern of a helix (keeping them apart so they don't arc, though whatever the projectile size is I suppose would set the voltage required before arcing would happen, though that could look cool too). It wouldn't be like a transformer winding, but look more like a twizzler sort of. Providing a spiral shape and giving a bit more forward push. Maybe not a ton more, but still more is more.
Oh and have that used as a mold for whatever nonconductive material would be strong enough to act as a barrel, like some kind of plastic or clay of some mixture. That would be along the lines of the process anyways.
@@PsiCorps85 forgive my stupidity, but what does wrapping it in a helix configuration like you do? Why do you have to shape it like that?
@@firstpersonsnooter2519 maybe build both, and see which works best for both muzzle velocity and spin-stabilization.
Dude my favorite two together, it makes me happy! (Lightly sobbs)
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Man that's gonna be scary when these things take over conventional firearms, especially with how fucking quiet they are. Eventually there's gonna be ones that are strong enough to punch holes through people but quieter then a silenced .22
And just think anything the military has is usually 10 years ahead of what we see if civilan models can do this they probably already have ones capable of that they probably just aren't cost effective or as range capable I know they are still testing big ones on ships though true rail guns rather than coil guns I think they would only find true effectiveness in space but then lasers are also much more effective in space due to the lack of atmosphere.
Well there are some limits of physics at play unfortunately, as the technology currently stands, it will never enter infantry hands as a valid rifle-type platform. They work awesome on ships and static emplacements, but unless some revolutionary developments are made in our understanding of magnetic propulsion it just wont happen. And even if it does it will just never be cost effective.
@@memesarentfunny2248 The only way I can see it working is inductive coulguns with some REALLY good caps that don't yet exist, never mind the transistors required to switch them.
Batteries, capacitors, and inductors are constantly improving. Energy densities and power efficiencies are always increasing, but at gradual rates. I'm guessing that these sorts of weapons won't stay very quiet when they're (eventually) able to fire projectiles at ballistic or Mach speeds.
@@pwnmeisterage battery tech is really not improving much right now, I suppose a backpack option could work or if they ever get fuel cells to work that might make a big difference. For a semi-static weapon, you could hook up to a generator :)
Since you are trying alternative weaponry you should try Joerg Sprave's (slingshot channel) repeating crossbow's/bow's next.
those arent guns, Americans are really only interested in firearms
@@solar7927 The weapons that were just showcased are not classified as firearms. Also, Mat reviewed a .50 cal air rifle once. That is not a firearm either.
Repeating crossbow ftw
Yeah would be interesting for sure
Why do I hear *hearty German laughter* ?
Those hollows make a neat little whistling noise when they fly. Nice distinctions
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one thing that you could try is holding an AM radio near the side of the coil gun, when it fires you will hear the Electro Magnetic or Radio Magnetic Pulses from the coils!
These are "just" cool now, but I could imagine being a lot more useful in the future, especially for specific applications. Great vid guy!
the big problem is weight. To make them sufficiently powerfull they would have to have a bunch of very strong capacitors. I don't see it used in the Infantry anytime soon, but battleships already got railguns and tanks could handle the weight. Especialy some next gen E tank or something
Oh yeah agree just cool but you cannot hunting with that rught?
If the public can buy something like this, rich private corpos developed way crazier weaponry probably in the 60s
Imagine what the military is developing
Imagine gnagnagnagna
Woman: "show me what those fingers can do..." Scott: *bent the trigger*
I come back just for the intro to this, watched the whole video, but if that intro was made a youtube short i would watch the shit outta that. the last two guns in it always get me to laugh x3
Funny vid Railguns are the goat of underwhelming awesome looking tech
3:02 Muzzle discipline coming in clutch
You guys are so awsome!!! I was dealing with a bad cancer scare with my momma, and I got stuck in shock mode ,but yall helped bring out the warriors! She gonna blow those stupid cells outta the water just like you destroy our favorite targets!!! Keep it up!! You may never realize how much yall help with every day issues!!!!!!
Take care of your momma, best wishes and a fast recovery!
I love you boys brother. Keep it up
YES!!! THESE CROSSOVERS ARE AMAZING!!!
I’m really looking forward to how powerful these could become as the technology continues to get better. They shoot with about the same power as a Gamo .22 air rifle, which while not bad, is far from their potential
I hate when people use the word "technology".... technically this thing could have been made 100 years ago almost the exact same way... just with vacuum tubes instead of solid state... but even then a spark gap oscillator would have even more power.... but by the time this thing gets powerful enough the capacitors, coils, or batteries will still be massive.... look at the stupid tesla suv
@@gilligan80 you are semanticfrogging about what I mean and then abstracting and essentializing based on your disdain over semantical usage. As battery technology improves, which will concern new means of power like Solid-State batteries, these guns can get far better
@@rosssilver yet*
@@rosssilver unless for example you build em to sit on balleships
The handheld formfactor has a lot of issues. Say we develop Batteries with say double the energy-density of Lithium-Ion, in itself a miracle. You now essentially have put all the gunpowder of several magazines into a slightly-larger-than-fistsized object. That's a bomb. And damage to that battery will make it blow up, with the combined energy it holds.
Major props to Matt for taking a ricochet to the arm mid-scene and just rolling with it
That's a nice beat to chill to 4:06
That elbow drop @12:29 was LEGENDARY!!
"Put a thumb in that!" Has to be the greatest one-liner I've heard
The slow mo getting hit in the arm and dropping elbows on the dummies, too funny 😂
You guys are so funny to watch and you're also fun to watch as well.😊😊😊
I love these two delightful goobers. 😂
I love how the "hallow point rounds" make a whistle through the air that can only be heard in slow mo
slo mo videos don't actually have real sound. its all added sound in post production
I feel like you could make fletchette sabot ammo for these, would probably increase accuracy
That is in fact the accepted way to increase accuracy for a coil gun. Coil guns CAN NOT be rifled under any circumstance (because the round must not contact the sides of the barrel, making obturation impossible). But to get a fléchette rotating properly, you have to have some serious muzzle velocity. I have used this gun with "beehive" rounds taken out of explosive ordnance (25mm length) and while accuracy IS increased, it's not as precise as a hunting rifle for example.
You could make a rifled coilgun but a more interesting approach would be to figure out a way to use electromagnetic induction and stator coils or magnets to make the projectile rotate on its own
Magnetic sabot could be used to push different rounds that are more aerodynamic. The disks are cool but I guess the lack of spin is what makes them so unstable
The concern about rifling is important. I happen to know someone who is doing their masters thesis as well as big money labs and materials on larger cannons setup in a helix pattern to cause the objects to spin.
Imagine using this for home defense…robber comes in… “hold on a minute let me haul this up. Wait let it charge…… ok. LETS GO!!!”
Be better off with cheap airsoft guns lol
@@dougboyatt2927 better off with a glove gun or a slingshot or sling
@@keybladerasta4142 hell, anything would be better than those things they're shooting lol
Keep playing. You going to see what happens. Like a robber going to wait for you to get off that slow 5hit
@@ltwilliams3086 robber's gotta pause sometimes to take a drink from your liquor cabinet, or make them a sandwich. That's when you strike.....with your oversized 200fps metal PEZ dispenser. Lol
I wonder why no one has tried using high voltage pulse capacitors with lower resistance coils made from thicker wire. Pulse caps can easily hold 15 to 30 kilovolts each, but generally tend to have a much lower capacitance than electrolytic capacitors of the same size. The biggest issues would be the electronic switching of the high voltages and amperages that pulse capacitors are capable of. There's a low tech mechanical switching solution that might give you a few shots before the contacts are vaporized, but the switch contacts would have to be very far apart to prevent arcing due to the high voltages involved. Maybe the arcing itself could be used as part of the switching solution. Back when I was experimenting with coilguns I first tried using regular switches, but quickly found out that wasn't going to work, because the coilgun would fire during charging after the capacitor bank reached a certain voltage. An arc would jump across the momentary button switch I tried using initially and it would fire the projectile without ever being able to charge the 3,300 Volt capacitor bank to full capacity. My test models were more miniature to save cost and I used ten 330 Volt 170 microfarads electrolytic disposable camera flash capacitors connected in series. I used white Bic pens as the tube and either pieces of solid steel rod, or slingshot ball bearing ammo that happened to fit nearly perfectly into the pen tube. I have long wanted to do tests with the aforementioned pulse capacitors and lower resistance, thicker coils, but life kind of happened and I never got around to it. I hope maybe some of the information here will give someone else some ideas to try. I would really appreciate it that if you do try some of these ideas, that you let me know how well, if at all, it works. ;-)
Yes professor !
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because capacitance is the limiting factor
We need more people putting their minds into this stuff. We need functional gauss guns. Oh yeah we need them.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
i really love your videos keep going
led/ copper outer layer for rifling, simple af
The montage was great Scott's face during the montage was great and the DDT during the montage was excellent good videos guys love the channels
Electrolytic capacitors have been around for over 60 years. Their design has changed very little over that time. The larger the capacitor, the more storage you have, typically. With advances in the types of loading in them (think of all the crap that goes into battery cells, like lithium), it is a theory that those chonky cans that run along the bottom can reduce in size and produce more power. A microchip needs to fire the charge in each one off in sequential order to propel the projectile out of the gun. The faster those capacitors can discharge, the faster the projectile will be propelled out of the gun. The more power (in Joules) they store, the more forcefully the projectile will be accelerated down the barrel and out of the gun. SCIENCE!!!
So basically it's not currently understood how to make something like this work in a smaller, more powerful scale?
@@chudwick8814 yes its is Marx Generator ..1 capacitor charges 3 ,6,9 finally last stage megatron..
@@chudwick8814 It's totally dependent upon the metal used for an anode and the electrolyte inside to the cathode. The kind you're seeing on these guns are the type found in most home electronics. There are aluminum coils that interact with a wet electrolyte inside that hold the charge that passes through the capacitor... just like the metal rod (aluminum, zinc, nickel) inside a battery is surrounded by a paste of alkaline, lithium ion, cadmium, or carbonized material. So when it comes right down to it, the same issue in making these guns more powerful is the same issue you have with extended life in EV batteries and solar power storage facilities.
What does Science say about shorts in those circuits, damage to the layers in the cap, or moisture invasion? one word......BOOM This is more likely to kill the one holding it than anything or one else.
@@truthsRsung While shorting can and usually does happen after multiple charge and discharge cycles, it appears the circuitry inside the microchip will prevent this from happening to a point. The charging employed is usually Delta V, and that will ensure the charge rate does not exceed the capacitance of the capacitors. The same tech is in most modern lithium ion chargers to prevent fires. When a capacitor finally does give out, it's usually due to the electrolyte inside drying out, at which point you'll smell it giving off a maple syrup smell.
"put a thumb in THAT!" 😂 Classy guys!
Rifling would have to be on the actual projectiles rather then the barrel. There shouldn't be any direct contact between the projectile and the barrel ideally, but texture could be added to create a sort of fin on each round to produce rotation to stabalize the shot.
200 years from now, someone is going to own the ranch and go through with a metal detector. That's going to be one disappointed soul.
And he will ask himself wich forgotten war took place there.
"A massive battle must have been fought on these grounds" ...Wait, what's with all the shaving cream?
@@Lizlodude and wild watermelons
When it rains it will leach the lead poisoning into the well Lead doesn't go away 500yr 1/2life
They need to make pellet shaped steel rounds. The Diablo shape of a pellet is self stabilizing and would make it way more accurate
That’s exactly what I had in mind lmao
Or a flechette with angled fins to impart spin
I guess they made them flat in front and the back for a reason instead of pointy? Didn't look like they tumbled the first few meters but maybe they start doing it after a bit of flying.
@@huldu a pellet usually isn't pointy either. It's hour glass shaped with a heavier nose, and the tapered center creates an air pressure difference and the tail is kept in the correct path because of the pressure change
There's a 🚀 👨🚀 projectile advancing in speeds Mac1 mach2 so on as soon as it leaves the barrel this bullet prototype wasn't much used
Pu a thumb in that had me dying 😂😂
Kentucky Demolition is the best combination