[BartSimpson]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/ ... tromagnet/

The impact of it is the same amount of kinetic energy as 33 tons of mass traveling at 100mph.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

If I'm not mistaken does the rail gun also have the benefit of limited to zero recoil as well?

[bootlegga]

Sweet!

My understanding with one big problem with developing a deployable railgun was the huge amounts of power it needs to fire the projectile. Good to see they've worked through that problem.

[BartSimpson]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

If I'm not mistaken does the rail gun also have the benefit of limited to zero recoil as well?

No, it is still subject to Newtonian Law. It's just that the recoil is significantly reduced because all you're doing is accelerating a mass instead of accelerating a mass and moving tons of atmosphere with explosive gases.

[xerxes]

Too cool. And yet another reason to pull out this little gem:

[desertdude]

Think this is pretty old man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

Posted Jan 2008