Heh - I didn't claim the Arc Flash was terribly lethal!
;-)
But now it's "just" down to beefing up something already on the
market to militarize it. Yeh - easier said than done, but still, I
was impressed...
And in the interim, if the slugs were pointed flechettey sorts of things
instead of simple metal slugs, you could make somebody reasonably
miserable within, say, 100 yards...
- Bill
At 02:37 AM 7/4/2020, you wrote:
1.5 and 3.5 ft-lbs.... that does
not seem like a lot.
13% of the speed of sound.
Not feeling that's very dangerous.
Now, to scale up the power, I suspect it might be doubling the weight of
the coils and the batteries for every doubling of power (ft/lbs or m/s
with their example projectile). That wouldn't double weapon weight
exactly, but it would be a fair part of that.
To have a barely subsonic version, you'd need to be 7x more powerful.
That would be either a lot heavier or have a fairly different accelerator
and battery tech.
T.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:47 AM Bill Rutherford
<xxxxxx@comcast.net>
wrote:
- At 12:39 AM 7/4/2020, Bill Rutherford wrote:
- At 11:09 PM 7/2/2020, you wrote:
-
https://www.armyrecognition.com/weapons_defence_industry_military_technology_uk/chinese_army_demonstrates_rifle-size_railgun_prototypes.html
- Arc Flash Labs seems to have a gauss automatic rifle and single-shot
(i.e. manually rack each shot) pistol on the market in the US:
-
https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/#
- Makes me wonder how advanced the un-publicized US developments have
gotten...
- Forgot to add:Â Note the battery capacities; 50 shots for the
pistol and 100 shots for the rifle (with ROF of about 480 rounds per
minute...)Â Both have 18 round magazines.
- Bill Rutherford
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