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Serious science question; why all the smoke and flames if there is no powder charge to ignite?
 
Serious science question; why all the smoke and flames if there is no powder charge to ignite?

The metal is being vaporised due to the current passing through it.
 
Serious science question; why all the smoke and flames if there is no powder charge to ignite?

Apparently - the electro-magnetic pulse creates that.

Listen to the commentary on the clip - explains it quite well actually.
 
hope they don't make it a land based weapon and let the Brits have it, as we sit on the back of Salisbury Plain ranges an overshoot could be serious.
 
It would be as serious as the overshoot of any gun.

true but moving at mach 7 is a little above the speed of a conventional artillery shell and wouldn't you have a sonic boom to deal with?
 
true but moving at mach 7 is a little above the speed of a conventional artillery shell and wouldn't you have a sonic boom to deal with?
Most modern artillery shells travel at supersonic speeds (although mach 7 is shifting a bit!), range is just a factor of use.
 
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Meh, its been used some time ago, in Transformers 2.
 
when you said rail gun I thought you meant this

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A US Navy weapon - designed and built by the British.
 

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