nice cannon - 1960's test in navada desert-awsum power

[jrrdw]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/atomicbomb.html no explanation needed

[dragon finder]

i saw that a while ago i think that is a german rail gun but i never knew that a rail gun could use that kind of firepower. that power can tern that sand in to a rough glass :shock

[darkpyro]

wow thats amazing the explosion is huge

[drac]

i saw that a while ago i think that is a german rail gun but i never knew that a rail gun could use that kind of firepower. that power can tern that sand in to a rough glass :shock

Thats not a rail gun! they didn't even have those back in the 60s.

[dragon finder]

oh whel it looked like one im not so good with dates

[saladtossser]

how do they film inside an explosion like that?

[dragon finder]

are you shure it looks like a smaller black rail gun like this one http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16598/16 ... y_042m.jpg
but i might not be right cause it's hard to see it in detail

[Atlantis]

You guys do realize this is a nuclear artillery gun. The explosion is so big big because the shell IS A FREAKING NUKE. The cameras used radio or wire to send the images to a recorder miles away.

[FiveseveN]

A gun on rails is not a railgun A linear DC motor is a railgun. The germans made two huge cannons, yes, but that is the american 280mm "Atomic Annie". Read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_cannon

[Atlantis]

I figured it would be obvious, what it was since the link has the words, "atomic bomb" in it. You guys need some common sense. Besides, if this were a rail gun, where are the tracks?

[dragon finder]

ok it is a atomic annie and the carrage looks just like a cannon that rolles on rails or a rail gun just smaller

[Atlantis]

The reason it rolls back is to absorb the recoil. Kinda like a piston bumper. All artillery uses this technique, not just "rail guns" which usually fire perpindicular to the track.

[Brian the brain]

Could we make this out of some PVC and a toy train maybe??
MOOOOOHAHAHA!....MOOOOHAHAHAHA...

[nicholai]

i thought that a rail gun used high voltage and a magnetic projectile accellerated by a rail with the opposite polarity or something like that?

[Urban Ninja]

Yeah that is how a rail gun works. I would love to make one but SooooO much money to build a decent one.