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Chinese Military Shows Off ‘Rifle-Size Railguns’ In New Video
Jul 10, 2020,01:49pm EDT
Arnie packing railgun rifles in the 1996 movie Eraser. The real-life version may be made in China.
While the U.S. Navy is reportedly struggling to build cannon-sized railguns for its ships, not only has China already put a railgun-armed ship to sea, it is now showing off rifle- and pistol-sized versions being fired at targets.
The weapons were featured in a video on Chinese military news website js7tv.cn last month, and were said to be developed by the Logistical Engineering University of the People’s Liberation Army, considered one of the country’s top military research institutions.
The weapon is known as the Small Synchronous Induction Coilgun, and it was demonstrated in pistol, rifle and robot-mounted variants, bursting balloons and punching holes in wooden and metal targets.
The idea for such weapons is not new, having been around since at least the 1930s. The idea is that by using electromagnetism to accelerate a bullet, you can overcome the limitations of gunpowder-style firearms, which generally top out at muzzle velocities of about 2,000 meters per second. Magnetic propulsion can in theory reach any speed; it is also silent, and with no explosive gases to disperse it can have an extremely high rate of fire. Science fiction fans will have encountered such weapons under names like Gauss Rifles or Mass Drivers, or the shoot-through-solid-walls electromagnetic pulse guns toted by Arnie Schwarzenegger in Eraser.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...-military-railgun-coilgun-video/#207b553559f8
Jul 10, 2020,01:49pm EDT
Arnie packing railgun rifles in the 1996 movie Eraser. The real-life version may be made in China.
While the U.S. Navy is reportedly struggling to build cannon-sized railguns for its ships, not only has China already put a railgun-armed ship to sea, it is now showing off rifle- and pistol-sized versions being fired at targets.
The weapons were featured in a video on Chinese military news website js7tv.cn last month, and were said to be developed by the Logistical Engineering University of the People’s Liberation Army, considered one of the country’s top military research institutions.
The weapon is known as the Small Synchronous Induction Coilgun, and it was demonstrated in pistol, rifle and robot-mounted variants, bursting balloons and punching holes in wooden and metal targets.
The idea for such weapons is not new, having been around since at least the 1930s. The idea is that by using electromagnetism to accelerate a bullet, you can overcome the limitations of gunpowder-style firearms, which generally top out at muzzle velocities of about 2,000 meters per second. Magnetic propulsion can in theory reach any speed; it is also silent, and with no explosive gases to disperse it can have an extremely high rate of fire. Science fiction fans will have encountered such weapons under names like Gauss Rifles or Mass Drivers, or the shoot-through-solid-walls electromagnetic pulse guns toted by Arnie Schwarzenegger in Eraser.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...-military-railgun-coilgun-video/#207b553559f8
