If they were flying straight, they would perform much better.anarchy08 wrote:i thought youd be on this one like a gunshot,
i was honstly pretty disappointed by the results the gun is a master piece engineering wise and looks, just didnt seem to perform.
Still it's a problem with electric guns, the amount of power they need even for basic performance is tremendous because they have such poor efficiency.
Of course if you're the government...space guns wrote: Although both coilguns and railguns sound exotic, they are not new ideas. Speculations about coilguns for use as military artillery predate the First World War, and in 1917 a Frenchman named Fauchon-Villeplee actually built a working model of a railgun, with the shells fitted with "wings" that served as an armature. In 1937, an employee of the German Siemens company named Otto Muck started looking at railguns again, and in 1943 proposed the construction of a long-range railgun that could fire twelve 200 kilogram shells every minute, driven by a 100 megawatt power station. The German military was already committed to the development of long-range missiles and other V-weapons, and the project was not funded.
In 1944, another German engineer named Hansler proposed the development of a 40 millimeter antiaircraft railgun, and the Luftwaffe awarded him a development contract. However, with Germany collapsing under the weight of Allied armies, nothing came of Hansler's weapon. The Allies investigated the railgun concept after the war, but quickly discovered the limitations of the technology and gave up on it for a few decades.
The major problems with both railguns and coilguns are that they require very large power supplies, possibly unrealistically large for a space launch application, and also have to switch very large amounts of power in very short times. In addition, railguns are inclined to erosion of the rails after a few launches, and the designs based on plasma arcs have difficulties with uncontrolled arcing around the projectile or to the muzzle. The simple violence of firing a railgun also tends to impose destructive stresses on it.
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It worksyes thats what i was thinking, iv got the same issue shooting empty soda bulbs. was thinking that i could drill them out and cast lead into the heads to hold them true in the air.
