As usual, I underestimated how long the podcast would take to upload, but it's already available at www.showmakers.fm, and will be on the youtube channel soon. Please check out Brilliant too, it's a fantastic site and fits my channel perfectly: bit.ly/2xDcRNe
7 жыл бұрын
Real Engineering I love that you bother check your narration and then edit in a fix. For curiosities sake what did you need to fix? Love your videos - a real joy to get an upload notification! Cheers bud
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
I said constant instead of consistent in the original script. Constant wasn't accurate, as drag and other variables eventually diminish returns. I recorded that fix last minute this morning, my voice is always deeper first thing in the morning, so it just sounded weird.
@vivigesso3756
7 жыл бұрын
Is this where ram rod came from?
@charlesgatine7045
7 жыл бұрын
But why don't the DARPA devellop superconductive rails for the gun ? The power requirement would drop à lot and the durabillity Will increase also à lot. Seems Obvious.
@randomrealistictone2231
7 жыл бұрын
Can you do one about the Russian rail gun. its smaller but more powerful than the usa.
@timothymclean
7 жыл бұрын
"Railguns even have potential outside the military. For instance, they're better at shooting down missiles." ...I'm pretty sure defensive technologies still qualify as military.
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
True, but atleast it's doing the opposite of killing people
@pauljones3017
7 жыл бұрын
Still, they could be used as a sort of first stage for an space launcher, then switching to other form of propulsion like scramjets.
@timothymclean
7 жыл бұрын
Real Engineering ...It's bringing people back to life?
@timothymclean
7 жыл бұрын
Paul Jones Well, yeah, but that's not the example he actually gave. Also, I'd count that as more of a distant-future-theoretical-idea than a practical thing we can expect to do in our lifetimes. That would require a much larger railgun and much more durable rockets than we have right now.
@kcfish4862
7 жыл бұрын
Perhaps we can use that to hunt
@anobody6234
5 жыл бұрын
“The physics is simple the math is not” Like nukes
@mortvald
5 жыл бұрын
Nukes are simple, the delivery system is not
@volka2199
5 жыл бұрын
The hardest part of making a nuke is miniaturization and delivery, not including refining the uranium. Given access to refined uranium most modern nations could easily make a simple fission only nuke in a format designed for testing or simple bomb casing.
@nuclearsandwiches3064
4 жыл бұрын
@Jerin Huh? So you're saying that no country on Earth has nuclear weaponry. Even though there are ridiculous amount of examples - be it: footage, radiation cases, mass destruction, shockwaves being felt across the world and open military use (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
@quantum_chezburger2279
4 жыл бұрын
Jerin what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What about the tests?
@ionisator1
4 жыл бұрын
@Jerin i bet you are also a flat earther and an anti-vaxxer
@richystar2001
5 жыл бұрын
Need a 100% conductive and indestructible element.... When's the next trip to Pandora to get some unobtainium?
@pewpew9711
5 жыл бұрын
Never, because it is unobtainable
@Mortlupo
5 жыл бұрын
@Geo Thomas The ship already has one of those.
@viktor8986z7o
5 жыл бұрын
@@Mortlupo Wait unit they hear submarines have those.
@SeaJay_Oceans
4 жыл бұрын
Frictionless Room temperature superconductors... just pick up some at Best Buy.
@rev.jonathanwint6038
4 жыл бұрын
And it needs to be Non-ferrous bc its ELECTROSTATIC FORCE NOT ELECTROMAGNETIC ! COIL GUNS USE ELECTROMAGNETIC! God the guy doing these videos is stupid!
@KelsomaticPDX
5 жыл бұрын
"This has backfired several times throughout history" The pun and understatement combo here brought me to my knees.
@CorporealHunter
5 жыл бұрын
I like your sense of humour
@exorias625
4 жыл бұрын
I didn't even notice lol
@EarlHare
4 жыл бұрын
@Daniel Martin bruh
@thatyoudliketoknow1628
4 жыл бұрын
Above kneeling, i prefer old times flying ww2 tech. kzitem.info/news/bejne/yaqouWpjhpZklYI wonderful. The skills. The precision. The focus. The dicipline. The wooooooow. 🛩️😐😄
@thatyoudliketoknow1628
4 жыл бұрын
Actually its pretty fun tho, like anyone cares 😆
@DarkSlayer487
4 жыл бұрын
"Huge versions in orbit" So the orbital MAC platforms that defend Earth in Halo 2 aren't completely unfeasible.
@imanin9972
4 жыл бұрын
yeah thought the same
@ringofasho7721
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine how much more efficient they'd be in low/no atmosphere. No loss of energy to air drag, and less friction at the rails. This weapon system is more practical and efficient in space than on earth. (Of course, putting something that heavy into orbit and supplying it with power is a whole other problem)
@DarkSlayer487
4 жыл бұрын
@@ringofasho7721 Yea those are easily the biggest obstacles here.
@Bowiiihowdy
4 жыл бұрын
More feasible than most sci fi guns.
@punctuationman334
4 жыл бұрын
Ringo Fasho halos SMACs are either powered by ground based generators as seen by the SMACs on Reach or are powered by built in power generators. Either of these solutions could be feasible 500 years into the future.
@HauntedXXXPancake
5 жыл бұрын
The important question: Is it not every Americans right to own a Railgun for home defense and possibly duck hunting ?
@heckleypanes4988
5 жыл бұрын
In the future ok if we have handheld versions
@chaosXP3RT
5 жыл бұрын
I think that if an American citizen can build or legally purchase a railgun, they should be allowed to own it
@Pizzaman7
5 жыл бұрын
You obviously don't know much about guns. I prefer hallow point bullets. The idea is to take out an assailant and not have the bullet go through the bad guy and strike other innocent bystanders. No collateral damage.
@kegginstructure
5 жыл бұрын
Not only hunt the ducks but roast them on impact. But they MIGHT be a little crispy for some tastes...
@flyingsnacks3944
4 жыл бұрын
I think you might be under estimating the rail gun a tad. There would be nothing left of the duck. as for home defense, it would go through the bad guy and likely the rest of your home and set it all on fire...
@marwanahmed9234
7 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. As a kid, I always felt frustrated because I thought that everything that could be discovered was already discovered and everything that could be invented was already invented. Videos like yours remind me that we are as far from that as could be, and it rekindles my passion for discovery and science
@bossle6834
7 жыл бұрын
Marwan Ahmed me to
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
That's why I started the channel. It's here primarily to inspire, not educate.
@ABaumstumpf
7 жыл бұрын
Railguns are ~100 Years old by now, Coilguns are even slightly older.
@psyko2666
7 жыл бұрын
The amount we know is a drop compare to the ocean of the unknown.
@PIERS212
7 жыл бұрын
This is probably the most sincere comment on youtube :')
@davidvandersterre
4 жыл бұрын
"can you lend me your charger please?" "Sure, what type of port?" - railgun operator: "..."
@infamoussoapconsumer3870
3 жыл бұрын
"hundred thousand watts pls."
@derpuck9769
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@LaserGadgets
3 жыл бұрын
Friction. I would say, the burning hot plasma would wear down the rails harder, even if there was no friction.
@Babylauncher3000
3 жыл бұрын
Does this problem still exist in the vacuum of space?
@LaserGadgets
3 жыл бұрын
@@Babylauncher3000 Good question actually. No oxygen...no other gases. The arc is still damn hot, and will probably melt the rails.
@Babylauncher3000
3 жыл бұрын
@@LaserGadgets Makes me think A space railgun with self-correcting ammunition would probably be cost effective even with rapid deterioration. Anything it shoots at would a multi-billion dollar enemy asset.
@LaserGadgets
3 жыл бұрын
@@Babylauncher3000 I would just try to avoid shooting...
@hernerweisenberg7052
3 жыл бұрын
No plasma, no arc. Vakuum is a good insulator. The problem there would be to get current flowing consistently i guess. Perhaps you would have to insert gas or make sure the current flow vaporizes enough material so there is something that makes sure the current can flow.
@Dawn-Shade
7 жыл бұрын
5:23 "I was just a child when the stars fell from the skies. But I remember how they built a cannon to destroy them. And in turn, how that cannon brought war upon us."
@commanderchiefmaster
7 жыл бұрын
Dawn-Shade where's that line from?
@DanielSilva-qf6nf
7 жыл бұрын
master commander chief sounds like an anime and, if I'm not mistaken, there's an anime called "a certain scientific rail gun" or something like that. That's my guess.
@Anbergino
7 жыл бұрын
Ah man, same thing ran through my mind when I saw that part. All I could think was "Yeah, now that sounds great in theory..." And master commander chief, it's from Ace Combat 4.
@Dawn-Shade
7 жыл бұрын
Yep. It was from Ace Combat 04. They built a vast array of anti-air railgun network to address the threat when an asteroid was on a collision course with the earth. The asteroid began to strike, thanks to the railgun network damage was kept to minimum but later in the aftermath, tension escalated and the powerful railgun network was captured by a country and was used as anti-aircraft weapon throughout the ensuing war. The railgun network proved to be an op anti-air weapon with firing range spanning more than half of the continent.
@stickman3214
7 жыл бұрын
I KNEW that was an Ace Combat quote! For a moment I thought it might have been from some shitty modern Sci-Fi movie.
@BocchiSensei
4 жыл бұрын
In the minds of every people watching: A nuclear powered battleship that has 4 railgun turrets and enough to power full ship systems
@SeaJay_Oceans
4 жыл бұрын
Still very vulnerable to Swarm robotics ... 5000 drones inbound - you need countermeasures to eliminate a swarm of 10,000 drones or more inbound... that would be the next step in defensive capability. measures and countermeasures...
@jaidheersirigineedi8110
4 жыл бұрын
It will be a dangerous target as it is nuclear powered.
@metalcake2288
4 жыл бұрын
@@SeaJay_Oceans very simple to deal with drone swarms, all you have to do is fire some high intensity uni-directional EMI. Electronic countermeasures are aplenty
@CrazyDutchguys
4 жыл бұрын
@@SeaJay_Oceans 5000 drones? Just get a really large fan and blow them away
@jaidheersirigineedi8110
4 жыл бұрын
@@ardantop132na6 but Nuclear powered submarines are majorly used for delevering nuclear strike, as a part of nuclear triad.
@mr.nobody68
4 жыл бұрын
One day, they're going to invent a weapon so Goddamned insane, it can shoot a projectile around the entire world, and hit itself
@stevensurack2923
4 жыл бұрын
You could do that with a gun on the moon, theoretically. It’s like suicide but way worse.
@thejokestersquad3686
4 жыл бұрын
You can also do that by shooting a gun while in orbit
@stevensurack2923
4 жыл бұрын
The moon is still easier tho, if not, can someone back me up?
@jaidheersirigineedi8110
4 жыл бұрын
@@thejokestersquad3686 if you shoot a gun in the orbit you should also deal with recoil force.
@imthedarknight-8755
4 жыл бұрын
The Supreme Leader- larger problem is the force to move the bullets also puts it in a different orbit and it's very likely you and the bullet won't collide for a very long time. It is true the recoil puts you in a different orbit too, but it'll be a much smaller difference than the bullets new orbit
@DKTAz00
7 жыл бұрын
@1:13 damn, is that really an ammo cache explosion? looks alot like some of the pacific nuke tests *edit a word
@DumplingDan
7 жыл бұрын
DKTAz00 I've never seen that before, it looks so horrifying
@ArmyGrunt1986
7 жыл бұрын
Its real. just search USS John Burke.
@marynoble9464
7 жыл бұрын
ikr just think one day your a crew member of a destroyer in the pacific theater, suddenly a kamakazi hits a nearby carrier at first you think that it cant get any worse. Then a large explosion happens the shock wave destroying your ear drums and the large wave engulfing your destroyer entierly.
@thalliumrc3981
7 жыл бұрын
Thats an incredibly huge explosion!
@Poctyk
7 жыл бұрын
It is a supply ship, that carried a few thousand tons of explosives. Or a few kiloton. Or about 1/4 of nuke dropped on Japan.
@patrickconejovey5214
5 жыл бұрын
Orbital super MACs are coming
@ln7929
5 жыл бұрын
Those are coil guns which are better than railguns in my opinion
@nickshaffer80
5 жыл бұрын
5:23. I was thinking more along the lines of Stonehenge. just hope it won’t be used for Anti-Aircraft roles
@matiseonfusion5276
4 жыл бұрын
UNSC here we come
@jonnyblade3234
4 жыл бұрын
Mammoth Tank
@Forerunner_Official
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone got a halo vibe when he said orbital platforms to protect earth from asteroids?
@mavste5677
5 жыл бұрын
So Lockheed is developing the mini fusion reator for use with Naval railguns. Got it.
@namyun2743
5 жыл бұрын
Actually, the navy is funding fusion reactor research of the Pollywell design: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
@SeaJay_Oceans
4 жыл бұрын
The micro fusion reactor keeps your Game Boy going for 400,000 years ! :-)
@noreaction1
7 жыл бұрын
The US military has been using this technology already. A good rule of thumb is that if the public knows about it, the military has been researching for at least 10 years
@FlexibleToast
7 жыл бұрын
noreaction researching != using.
@zzKirus
7 жыл бұрын
Far more than 10 years trust me.
@CousinJesse1
7 жыл бұрын
I was reading about raildriver tech as a child so that was about 20 years ago.. now if a child has access to that kind of information 20 or so years ago, and you suggest that the military has been researching and testing a minimum of 10 years before any public awareness then railgun tech would have been a thing since at least the 1980's.
@spindash64
7 жыл бұрын
Depends on the importance and innovativeness of the new tech, as well as how quickly that field has been advancing.
@mikee368
7 жыл бұрын
the research of the railgun has started around 1990. the practical aplications are still not here not only because of the rails that melt to fast, but also because of the way you need to store the energie for each shot. the condensators are simply to big atm in time for practical use on a ship.
@xxpvtsleepyxx
7 жыл бұрын
5:24 "That MAC Gun can put a round clean through a Convenient Capital Ship"
@jameskinard
7 жыл бұрын
Pass through a first ship, a second one and cripple a third.
@MrBioniclefan1
7 жыл бұрын
Nice reference there
@cheesecakelol5671
6 жыл бұрын
The Convenient Capital Ship! There when you need it, discreet when you don't!
@Face08
6 жыл бұрын
that's a convenient gun, ship? there.
@johnshilling2221
5 жыл бұрын
Through and through. Needs to tumble. Otherwise, just a flesh wound!
I was finding a comment relating to it, glad i did
@ardantop132na6
4 жыл бұрын
Ulysses asteroid: *Ethereal laughter*
@kevintan5497
4 жыл бұрын
um halo? actually nvm those are coil guns
@sigariousrilgar5436
4 жыл бұрын
As long as mobious doesn't take it down on impulse
@eldorados_lost_searcher
7 жыл бұрын
At the sustained speeds of Mach 6, would explosives even be necessary or safe? At those speeds, wouldn't a solid slug be enough to leave a fairly large crater?
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
Yeap the projectile is just a tungsten missile right now, no explosives. The kinetic energy alone is immense, I should have talked about this in the video.
@dashsocur
7 жыл бұрын
Theoretically, yes. Legal and diplomatic hurdles would be significant, however, as space is internationally recognized as a demilitarized zone and anyone attempting to change that would be in for an extremely bumpy ride.
@jascvideorambles3369
7 жыл бұрын
+Ricardo Santos+ That's sort of like the concept of Rods of God. Large Rods of Tungsten dropped from orbiting satellites.
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
Doing my job of answering question for me lads, thanks
@Mr_LH1980
7 жыл бұрын
Wait a sec the immense kinetic energy is only useful if you can transfer it to the target. rods from god work as the potential energy is converted into heat and shock waves when it hits the ground. There is nowhere for the energy to go other than being converted. 7.62mm bullets carve holes into bodies due to high energy. 5.56mm is smaller and considered deadlier as it tumbles and transfers more energy to the target. DU anti armour bullets work because the kinetic energy gets turned to heat and shockwaves when they hit armour. Big ship guns may carry a ton of kinetic energy but if it can't transfer the energy to the intended target won't it just go straight through and cause superficial damage? Exocets in the Falklands hit UK destroyers. The missiles themselves made big holes but it was the unburned fuel that caused massive fires. Sure you're got a big fucken hole in your ship, that breaks the stuff it impacts with but it'll just tear a channel through the target if there is no secondary payload to transfer the energy.
@psychlops924
7 жыл бұрын
I was actually living in Bath, Maine while they were building the USS Zumwalt at Bath Iron Works. You could see the ship from a bridge nearby and it was incredibly impressive. Cool to see footage of it in service.
@Geelar
7 жыл бұрын
Too Bad production has been cancelled, it was too compromised
@whispofwords2590
6 жыл бұрын
Steve Wilcox That's Not really such a set back, just teething problems, which are to be expected with a ship so different from previous vessels.
@hansser3
6 жыл бұрын
terry waller Yes, only three of them to justify the money invested in the program.
@whispofwords2590
6 жыл бұрын
hansser3 You know they can design new ships in the future and fit this to them as well, right? Not to mention that there are other applicant for this weapons systems as well.
@titaniumoverdrive259
6 жыл бұрын
Cool
@masterseeker360
4 жыл бұрын
5:25 ace combat stonehenge is gonna be lit
@kylesenior
7 жыл бұрын
>Picturing an Abrams with a smoothbore gun while talking about rifling.
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
Although I didn't know that was a smoothbore gun, the Abrams wasn't even in shot when that was referenced. People always be hunting for mistakes
@zogworth
7 жыл бұрын
Only the challenger uses a rifled barrel in tanks as it makes it harder to use SABOT rounds. They were looking at replacing with a rhinemettal one though. Whether they will or not is not something I know.
@MonMalthias
7 жыл бұрын
The Challenger 2 LEP will not replace the L30 rifled gun. Scuttle butt is that it would require too many engineering changes to the turret. BAE will replace only electronics. www.baesystems.com/en/product/challenger-2
@Angryp0nY
6 жыл бұрын
Rifled barrels require more frequent maintenance and doesn't affect range or velocity in any meaningful way compared to the smoothbore barrel the Abrams uses
@Kj16V
7 жыл бұрын
4:20 When your bae's an experimental rail gun.
@filipskotnica971
4 жыл бұрын
Haha that was great :)
@GlitchedBlox
4 жыл бұрын
wat
@thesovietduck2121
4 жыл бұрын
@@GlitchedBlox Can you read?
@MissesWitch
4 жыл бұрын
Nice bae you got there.
@flurry2694
4 жыл бұрын
Most importantly is how old is she?
@fireaza
6 жыл бұрын
This video about railguns was certainly scientific!
@loudnpc8578
2 жыл бұрын
Finally found one🤣
@Amar-wn9fn
7 жыл бұрын
Nothing compared to my nerf guns
@sheepherd2210
6 жыл бұрын
ComradeD0ggo he didnt get any nerf guns
@titaniumoverdrive259
6 жыл бұрын
Airsoft bitch, ouch
@blobfishiant8487
5 жыл бұрын
The jolt is the supreme weapon
@mithilsalunkhe3469
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah man
@JuanDelaCruz-il9wy
5 жыл бұрын
you neef to fo some ducking serious schooling fufe
@loupain2530
7 жыл бұрын
You're wrong. It's my explosive shits after a solid hour at Taco Bell.
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
I'd argue it's me after a night of drinking Guinness
@loupain2530
7 жыл бұрын
Real Engineering You win.
@moboxgraphics
7 жыл бұрын
😷
@josecapitanmunoz785
7 жыл бұрын
Guys calm down. The video's about US military's most powerful gun, not US most powerful weapons of mass destruction
@MrBioniclefan1
7 жыл бұрын
Bird Expert lol too funny
@Hammy712
3 жыл бұрын
A certain Guy's right hand: **ARE YOU SURE ABOU THAT?** Cool video btw
@CheeseWithMold
7 жыл бұрын
Wow. Imagine that. A massive railgun in orbit around Earth. Edging more and more towards the Halo timeline, now.
@LIONtib
7 жыл бұрын
CheeseWithMold All we need now is the power armour, genetically enhanced super soldiers and genocidal aliens.
@zhqngs
7 жыл бұрын
and hot ai
@juliuslinus
7 жыл бұрын
And 500 years
@chancedavis6216
7 жыл бұрын
CheeseWithMold I want some power armor
@Loreless
7 жыл бұрын
We need a bucket of metal balls on its orbit to bring down this
@Andrei-tw1ys
6 жыл бұрын
This is hands down the most interesting subject of first year in engineering and the video was really well made! Well done good sir you deserve a sub
@0IDaveCouch
5 жыл бұрын
"And now that you know how it's done .. don't do it." Troy McClure
@Joe6.2
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, my name is Troy McClure You may recognize me from other films such as...
@druunderwood5602
4 жыл бұрын
The Movie That Time Forgot & The Thing That Ate Ice Station Zulu
@stevenreyna3437
6 жыл бұрын
"At that speed, will you be able to pull out in time?"
@blahblahblah5642
4 жыл бұрын
Bruh 😂😂
@gameknight.thump1
3 жыл бұрын
uhhhhh nope!!! not at all. duh! xD
@xxxpyrosxxx
5 жыл бұрын
I am obsessed with rail guns, they seem so archaic and highly developed at the same time... It is fascinating.
@tcg1_qc
4 жыл бұрын
0:51 hey that's a ship from my country, Canada!
@imanin9972
4 жыл бұрын
niba
@giraffeman326
3 жыл бұрын
Aye lad it sure is
@lorgaraurelian4076
7 жыл бұрын
At 3:45 you acknowledge one of the major upsets of this weapon's design; surface wear, and surface damage. Realistically, we can reduce surface wear and surface damage via the use of materials we choose. We need: 1. A material that is rigid enough to withstand the recoil of the propelling force and other forces. 2. A material that is heat resistant. 3. A material that is a super-conductor. Metallurgy and chemistry will solve this problem for us. Metallurgy - Steel is the optimum material for rails. There are many types of steel but D2(low) is the best here. It is rigid, and conductive. However, it is susceptible to high heat and can warp over time. Chemistry - Refining the substrate of D2(low) would yield super-conductivity and increased heat resistance. Plasma assisted physical vapor deposition (PAPVD) could bond Titanium Nitride and/or Titanium Carbide to the substrate. However, PAPVD can only deposit up to 5-7 microns of material to surface for the bonding process. Enter Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD). It does the same thing as PAPVD, only at a higher heat, does a chemical change rather than physical changes, and does not need to use plasma. It can also deposit the same coatings like PAPVD (Titanium Nitride and Titanium Carbide) but it can also deposit Titanium Carbi-Sapphiride in the range of 15-30 microns. CVD gives you a wider range of coatings to use, but also at a greater thickness and density. Again, both will give you thermal resistance, reduced surface wear, and super-conductivity. In general, increased life duration of the rails means the Armed Forces will save money. Pretty sure that would be a win-win for everyone. Solve the inherent issues with a new weapons platform and save money in the process. P.S. I spent 8 minutes typing this, and I don't know why. 😐 I work with PAPVD and CVD coatings so to me it just makes sense....
@xflushestmean93x54
6 жыл бұрын
Endymion, the Master of Memes, dude they probably have better materials than steel but probably just classified information
@lorgaraurelian4076
6 жыл бұрын
Hayden Murphy I doubt they would use aluminum as it would warp after one shot. Carbide would be great but it shatters quite easily when under great shock. Not to mention it would be very heavy and very expensive to produce. Steel is the way to go. Steel with a coating maybe the most ideal alternative. Cheap to produce, heat resistant, and flexible enough to withstand great shock.
@Ohnonomomono
7 жыл бұрын
1:42 what's up with the shelling of Angola?
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
For King and Countr... oh wait.
@ALBANIANUMBERONE
7 жыл бұрын
These are the questions that need to be asked!
@Demonade_
5 жыл бұрын
Modern USA: meet the M1 Abrams the strongest tank ever WW2 Germany: meet landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte
@ricoricardo4850
5 жыл бұрын
I Can Animate M. Sianipar Amerika: Railgun Hitler: Hold my Beer Schwere Gustav
@Anolaana
5 жыл бұрын
While it's true the Ratte is bigger... it never worked properly. The US Army has hundreds of M1s! And like 90% of them work. How time has changed things :)
@Vk-wd5we
5 жыл бұрын
The P-1000 Ratte would've just been a giant CAS Target
@luigimrlgaming9484
5 жыл бұрын
Landkreuzer wins seriously it would if it didn’t sink to the earths core first
@volgawolfhounds741
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, you mean that giant slow-as-hell PIG with the HUGE target painted on its side?
@Northstar_004
7 жыл бұрын
I know we’re far from it, but the thought that this tech could one day be miniaturised down to a traditional firearm is both scary and awesome at the same time.
@erisdiscordia1649
4 жыл бұрын
I honestly see this as a way to bring battleships back into the modern navy. Maybe something like a nuclear powered battleship with a few railgun turrets to assist ground forces with artillery strikes or to cover the fleet it runs with.
@ethan4237
5 жыл бұрын
Coming back and watching this in 2019, It is amazing how much this channel has improved as well as the production quality!
@small_lmao2895
5 жыл бұрын
I think that having replaceable rails like a LMG would help to extend the Rail gun's life
@ussdaedalus5058
3 жыл бұрын
“With huge versions in orbit” The Halo MAC cannon
@alexanderl7491
4 жыл бұрын
2 minutes of rail gun 4 minutes of math and physics lesson 1 minute of advertising for Brilliant
@blablagal94
7 жыл бұрын
Destroying asteroids with rail guns... Do you want Ace Combat 4 to happen? Because that's how you make it happen
@spindash64
7 жыл бұрын
raidentheninja I mean, we've survived 70 years of imminent doomsday with two nations who REALLY don't like each other. Nowadays the only nations really interested in war don't exactly have many friends backing them up. See also: North Korea. Of course, politics can change very quickly, but it says something that the largest power is largely seen as the preferred status quo to remain in power, while that was not the case for most of history.
@blablagal94
7 жыл бұрын
I mean with rail guns you could also literally have stealth nuclear warheads like in Metal Gear Solid, so... Yeah.
@leahcimzruc
7 жыл бұрын
raidentheninja A real life Stonehenge •.•
@chiefcaptn1922
6 жыл бұрын
do you want metal gear solid ants? cause thats how you get metal gear solid ants.
@ricefields7539
7 жыл бұрын
US military's most powerful gun that we know of.
@WholeOrganicMilk
7 жыл бұрын
Rice Fields I know right? I mean we even have laser guns that they have made public knowledge so there's literally no telling what else we have. Boston dynamic is even making robots for us as well if you don't know about Boston dynamics they have a KZitem channel....some crazy stuff on there.
@Fukei_Mono
6 жыл бұрын
That statement is quite terrifying in its own sense..........
@Angryp0nY
6 жыл бұрын
We had Nuclear Artillery rounds already. I think that was more powerful lmao
@deany9028
6 жыл бұрын
Its not american its British you can see bae systems labels all over them during the video
@calliberjoe
6 жыл бұрын
this was made by americans, the united states subsidiary of bae systems, its bae systems inc
@CrimZaza
3 жыл бұрын
The most deadly when the ammo explodes is the HMS Hood during ww2
@welme23
5 жыл бұрын
Watching a video about a railgun after watching a certain scientific Railgun.
@railgun9992
4 жыл бұрын
She cute mobile railgun
@comradekd443
4 жыл бұрын
Hey guys I found a man of culture
@thatrandomeliteultra1158
4 жыл бұрын
Mac guns?
@mayankraj2294
4 жыл бұрын
Wot? I'm not sure what you guys are talking about.....lol
@gdpanzer7333
4 жыл бұрын
@@mayankraj2294 it is an anime
@armandoreynaga3923
7 жыл бұрын
Kim Jong Un is taking notes
@chancedavis6216
7 жыл бұрын
Mr. Original lmaooo
@MrBioniclefan1
7 жыл бұрын
So true
@deathphantomdaredevil
6 жыл бұрын
Mr. Original not sure if he has the money
@rebelscum3900
5 жыл бұрын
deathphantomdaredevil 9000 he doesn’t have the money to buy pencils and paper lol
@de0509
5 жыл бұрын
I dont see how railguns although revolutionary can change war into a different thing. They know they are mere lackeys to China, and they do not want too much attention from China by being too boisterous. Railguns would just be like regular war with conventional weapons, shooting enemies while trying to not be shot. They already got nuclear. They may not have more than one bomb, who knows. Yet even one nuclear bomb with ballistic missile is enough to keep them safe and they can start going about their questionable activities without anyone giving them a tough time
@EmetGyms
5 жыл бұрын
Engineers do make the world a better place.
@petermurphy229
7 жыл бұрын
1:13 the explosion is from an underwater nuclear test (1946)
@klapsigaarenbasgitaar1931
4 жыл бұрын
Seems not: kzitem.info/news/bejne/yYCZqoqYgWeiZqA
@victormize4836
4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering
@shahidilhan3139
7 жыл бұрын
Make videos on fuel efficiency...good work.
@WobbaFett9001
6 жыл бұрын
+Knight-Sgt. Reyes Zootopia is easily the manliest thing on the planet. How dare you make fun of it
@cmkm54
6 жыл бұрын
Bernie Sanders 14.7 parts of air to 1 part of gasoline is stociometric the most efficient it can be on average there ya go
@kormannn1
6 жыл бұрын
The first 3 people who responded to main comment and the ones who gave them a like deserve to be thrown into black hole to enter the singularity. Well, sure it is the only thing they deserved in their miserable life.
@greggvandenbosch8230
4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if they've been researching this since the 80s? The reason I ask is I studied electromagnetics in 1987 and after one of the classes, I spoke with my professor and suggested that if we were to discharge a huge amount of current through a moveable conductive object, we could shoot it like a gun. He smiled like he knew something he couldn't talk about, and said "it's called a rail gun". I think he was a consultant to the military on the side.
@AirMIDGET
7 жыл бұрын
It’s 1:54 am here in Australia and I love your channel I learn so much so thank you
@tiavor
7 жыл бұрын
yay! a brrrrrrrrrrrrt 0:32
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
I had the noise in their originally, but it was toooooo scary. Would spook everyone
@thepepchannel7940
7 жыл бұрын
Real Engineering ah yes, the sound of tens of thousands of dollars being fired
@thepepchannel7940
7 жыл бұрын
D.O.A. Yeah it's without a doubt my favorite cannon with wings!
@samarium1934
7 жыл бұрын
The Pep Channel that gun doesn't shoot bullets, it shoots money
@thepepchannel7940
7 жыл бұрын
Caleb Ueckert how about depleted Uranium!
@ithaca2076
5 жыл бұрын
“Their so powerful they can be used to shoot down even the best of waifus”
@itsallogrenow9287
5 жыл бұрын
QUEST:SLAY RED HEADED THOT REWARD:99999999999999999 DIAMONDS
@Rukashi80
4 жыл бұрын
Too scary!!!
@aron8650
7 жыл бұрын
Can't wait for military grade handheld weapons
@Garyalarson1
5 жыл бұрын
/\aron plenty available. They are called AR-15s and M9s. :)
@sekhardeka498
6 жыл бұрын
Keep up the good work !! 😊 Your videos are learning inspiration for me... As an science student I was searching for such a channel where the videos are based on different science topics ..... So, your channel is like a knowledge heaven for me... Thank you for making such a good channel from my heart!!!!!I have already subscribed
@markschroeder5685
6 жыл бұрын
Hi,.... Please consider a potentially ideal methodology of protecting the 'barrel' or 'rails' of the railgun from destruction after a few shots. First constructing it from materials capable of thermal variations/gradients would be helpful. But my primary suggestion is that super-cooling the 'barrel', and between shots, introducing water vapor, to form a uniform ice layer, would be most efficacious. Water is one of the only materials to expand upon freezing, so a thin layer would not only provide lubrication, but cooling as well. Even as heat is generated it would generate water vapor, or steam even, that would protect the surface of the weapon.
@tomperkins5657
5 жыл бұрын
Wow! A gun that can finally take down my hemorrhoids.
@wittyjadee29
3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@KalikiDoom
7 жыл бұрын
Kami Kazé (神風) This actually means "Divine Wind", Like a divine wind that is coming to "do what's right".
@prjndigo
6 жыл бұрын
The huge explosion at muzzle is NOT specifically from erosion of the rails but is plasma from the erosion of a COATING of the rails that protects the actual conductors. Remember that this system is a PLASMA CANNON that ejects a solid mass sabot.
@pitchforkntorch
6 жыл бұрын
I know it's just the accent, but I love the way he says "theta" xD
@morepower1415
5 жыл бұрын
How about a Nuclear-powered warship enough to carry 2 railguns or more but if this railgun is proven effective it maybe the revival of Age of Battleships for the Navies
@Booyaka9000
5 жыл бұрын
Nothing is bringing back the battleship. Everything about the concept is obsolete. That's like saying the Penny Farthing is due for a revival in the future of cycling. Never gonna happen. Ever.
@full-timepog6844
5 жыл бұрын
Jets are too OP
@avery1647
3 жыл бұрын
2 railguns huh *looks at the alicorn*
@kanrethadebonlocke4363
5 жыл бұрын
I feel it is my duty to point out that the weapon in your thumbnail is the 57mm Mk 3 from Bofors (Mk 110 in the US Navy and Coast Guard). Firing a rail gun projectile. (Source: I am a Mk 110 Tech)
@jozefd4003
7 жыл бұрын
Do a video on how man got to the moon. Or some other type of video about space.
@darrengreen7906
7 жыл бұрын
You should check out Curious Droid 's channel.
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
Then, explain how we can send things back to Earth with rail guns.
@kevomorider6254
7 жыл бұрын
Can't they cool the railgun with liquid nitrogen so it stays cool / doesnt melt? or will the cold decrease the power of the railgun?
@RealEngineering
7 жыл бұрын
No, actually I think lower temperatures would increase the force, as conductivity rises with lower temperatures in metallic conductors. I'd be surprised if they aren't already doing that actually, good idea.
@moboxgraphics
7 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting question. As a material heats up, there are a higher amount of ions, therefore higher conductivity so that may be a negative factor. But I wonder how exactly that would impact life cycle of rails too as temperature swings is also not good.
@seejianshin
7 жыл бұрын
Cooling it would be very good for performance, but not practical. The energy required to keep the system cool at normal temps is huge already, let alone cooling it to liquid nitrogen levels. (Or cooling nitrogen to its liquid state, but are similar). It is impractical too for a ship to store such amounts of liquid nitrogen and they start facing problems faced by conventional ammo carrying ships.
@themadhammer3305
7 жыл бұрын
See Jian Shin ammonia circulation might work as a method of Colling, it is toxic to human if it escapes but it has fantastic heat transfer capabilities and would be easier to work with than large volumes of liquid nitrogen
@jameskinard
7 жыл бұрын
The thermal shock from firing would probably damage the rails more and at liquid nitrogen temps the rail would be more brittle which could cause failure from firing
@slowpnir
5 жыл бұрын
Not only it melts the rails, it strips a layer from one rail, producing a chain of concave pits (after several shots) and adds hills of the material from the armature to the second rail. Both amounts of matter are dependent of charge passed through system.
@pyRoy6
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for including my love, HMCS ALGONQUIN, in the video.
@fuckery1017
4 жыл бұрын
The way he flipped the howitzer shell in the beginning was badass
@sanjitkadam8336
3 жыл бұрын
1:18 holy crap... how? what? how was so much explsive power come from relativly small space? wow just wow
@lordofspearton8643
5 жыл бұрын
5:25 Halo Orbital Defense Platforms anyone?
@encryptedwolf7623
5 жыл бұрын
The thought of an electromagnetic mass driver is exciting!
@chroesus7143
5 жыл бұрын
This was extremely informative and answered a lot of my questions about rail gun technology and the basic physics involved.
@rafiahmedchowdhury7977
7 жыл бұрын
why doesn't the armature use rollers instead of a static conductor to minimize friction?
@sgbench
7 жыл бұрын
I'm sure they've tried that already or are going to try it
@Azagro
7 жыл бұрын
Rollers would require a sort of brush. Like a brushed dc motor. However, when dumping hundereds of thousands of Ampères into it, you will even have worse efficiency. Now there are certains ways to replace sabots, like pusher plates.
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
You would need some impressive electrical contact bearings, or slick ball-and-socket joints to bear that kind of heat generation, thermal expansion, and radial force.
@Geelar
7 жыл бұрын
I believe it would be less efficient because you have much less contact points to generate the lorentz forces + The bearings on the rollers would be fried, kinda shifting the problem
@spindash64
7 жыл бұрын
Geelar Rollers are much cheaper to replace, mind you
@austinhanna8328
4 жыл бұрын
"incoming from Stonehenge"
@druunderwood5602
4 жыл бұрын
Transformers The Last Knight, Gi Joe Retaliation, Zeus/Soundwave?
@avery1647
3 жыл бұрын
@@druunderwood5602 its from ace combat
@SephirothRyu
5 жыл бұрын
While not the most devastating incident in terms of visual explosion size, a more famous WW2 incident involving ammo being hit by the enemy was that of the Hood, a British warship that got torn in half by the internal explosions resulting from one of the Bismark's shells hitting it in the right spot.
@johnpetun1180
5 жыл бұрын
0:32 should’ve added sound when it went BRRRRT
@susanmaggiora4800
3 жыл бұрын
John Petun I did it myself🤣
@plsmuteyou
7 жыл бұрын
OMFG the A10 most beautiful Plane ever made!
@jasonneu81
6 жыл бұрын
I once saw a 3 Tesla "Railgun" Demonstration, the doc showed me what metal does in an MRI after I asked what would happen (I was about 14 I think). He held his ballpoint pen close to the opening, it started lifting into the horizontal when he got closer to the opening of the MRI machine, then he let go and the pen shot through the MRI, after going almost to the other end of the tube it suddenly changed direction and got stuck on the top of the tube of the machine. This all happened so quickly that it was hard to see, so imagine what happens when the magnetic field is turned off at the point of maximum acceleration like it would be in an actual railgun!
@masterseeker360
4 жыл бұрын
5:20 ace combat is becomming real
@carlossama2191
7 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up if you laughed when he said "while this technology has huge potential" (it's funny because high voltage)
@jaihadgeppo150
7 жыл бұрын
Carlos Sama That doesnt even make any sense.
@Robbedem
6 жыл бұрын
Potential is the general name of the phenomena (in Dutch we call it "grootheid", don't know the English word for it), while voltage is the unit ("eenheid") to measure the size of that phenomena. It's the same where mass is the general term and kg is a unit to measure it.
@HuntingTarg
6 жыл бұрын
You mean its punny...
@orangeguy5374
6 жыл бұрын
Robbedem Actually, it's "potential difference"
@byson8628
5 жыл бұрын
Ikr?😂
@ardvark84
6 жыл бұрын
That explosion at 1:20 HOLY SHIT! It looks like a nuke explosion.
@cr0w-qz277
7 жыл бұрын
lol "could be used in a satellite to defend against asteroids" Yeah, world powers are going to agree to a high power orbital asteroid destroying superweapon :P
@Eccooke31
7 жыл бұрын
Could always design it so you have to have a security code (Like Nukes) but one from each major country so that it is obvious the whole world agrees.
@joe18425
5 жыл бұрын
Just think what the technolgy will be like in 200 years. And Al Qaeda will still be firing their ak-47's
@skhochay
5 жыл бұрын
200 we all be looking for something- that today we called water
@raymondmyers6899
4 жыл бұрын
You don't understand the marketing of profitable war-mongering.
@navyseal1689
4 жыл бұрын
The earth will not live for another 200 years
@lorenzocampolucci4464
4 жыл бұрын
@@navyseal1689 WE will probably not live for another 200 years, but it's extremely difficult to destroy a planet
@jumpiertech
4 жыл бұрын
@@navyseal1689 Earth will live for the next 200 years, even if we were to explode every nuke from ww2 to now it wouldnt even change the earths structure that much. It would probably kill every human but not enough to change earth to destroy it.
@ryantaylor8384
Жыл бұрын
A cooling system using the guns own magnetism would be cool
@beshg2298
7 жыл бұрын
having a railgun in space to destroy asteroids may not destroy the asteroids but send the railgun itself back to the earth :D
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
Yeh. You would need some impressive retrofiring ion rockets.
@Eccooke31
7 жыл бұрын
There is no recoil on rail guns....like a cannon.
@brown_note4710
6 жыл бұрын
Eccooke31 That isn't true because of the law of conservation of momentum. If the projectile goes forward then the gun must go backwards with the same momentum. Because the gun is a lot bigger, it'll go back a lot slower. Cannons, rail guns, crossbows, all of those have recoil
@foxymetroid
6 жыл бұрын
It would still have less recoil than a traditional gun firing a similar projectile since the lack of chemical propellant would mean that all the recoil would come from the projectile itself via Newtonian physics.
@SighNaps
6 жыл бұрын
+0110 Conservation of momentum would mean that the gun must have recoil if firing a projectile forward, regardless of the method of propulsion. Different methods of propulsion have different rates at which they deliver their force however. A rail gun would have far less perceived recoil because accelerating a projectile through a barrel using a combustive propellant produces a very large force in a very short period of time. A rail gun would produce a smaller force over a longer period of time. This would eventually equal the same amount of force produced by the conventional gun (assuming some mathematical constants between the 2 weapons) but would result with less perceived recoil because it would be dispersed through a larger window of time, never reaching the same peak force as the conventional weapon. The recoil of a rail gun can be illustrated through some fairly simple means. Envision a rail gun as a simple, non linear circuit in a rectangular orientation. If you clamp everything to the circuit and measure it, you will notice that the power supply side and the projectile side of the circuit are symmetrical. If the circuit was in series, the power supply could be placed in line with the rail element and you could see 2 projectiles propelled in 2 different directions. To see the inverse force to this, one would use the right hand rule ( I don't know if this is a common term everywhere, so I just wanted to include the link to prevent loss of translation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-hand_rule) and draw the magnetic fields near any wire (with the exception of those coming from the wire itself). One can then apply Lorentz force law and calculate that each part of the circuit is repelling the center. This is almost identical behavior to the internal pressure of an explosion generated inside the barrel of a gun. Of course does not account for the potential of any other outside forces on the weapon itself that could have an effect on the outcome. This is a very simplified example, but the principle is the same.
@PongoXBongo
5 жыл бұрын
If an anti-asteroid system with such guns would be considered "weaponizing space", what about placing them on the dark side of the Moon where they can literally only point away from Earth?
@combativeThinker
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, do you really want another Lunarian invasion? Chang'e was enough of a headache without getting Tsukuyomi involved.
@erickdupont4503
4 жыл бұрын
One little technicality...explosives are never used to propel projectiles. This is an important difference. Explosives explode. Propellants propel. If an explosive were to be placed inside the bore of any barrel, it would burst it like a bomb. That’s its function.
@faressdiri9857
5 жыл бұрын
Imagine a tank with that gun.
@dogdog2257
5 жыл бұрын
Not possible not practical
@TheBand234
4 жыл бұрын
@@dogdog2257 not yet
@TheLegitAlpha
4 жыл бұрын
Not yet. The question is how much is needed for 120mm cannons?
@yellowsaturn2873
4 жыл бұрын
So how do u install the nuclear power inside the tank
@isacsanchez478
7 жыл бұрын
Hey mate, can you do a video on kinetic bombardment? And how that could work in space ? Plzzzzzzzzz
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
I second this.
@iz723
7 жыл бұрын
G.I Joe 2. London is destroyed by this in the movie
@AdrianMulligan
6 жыл бұрын
Do you mean the tungsten "Rods from God"? I agree, I wonder how accurate a gravity weapon could really be, I'm in doubt, but would love an explanation!
@yeetspageet5679
6 жыл бұрын
+Adrian Mulligan well I just thought of a conspiracy. Elon musk doesn't really want to go to mars. He wants to make space travel and bringing stuff into space more cheaply so he can build several stations to launch "rods from god" from and he will be able to store unlimited ammo with his falcon heavy ships bringing up more rods and he will eventually be able to dominate the world.
@AdrianMulligan
6 жыл бұрын
Are you related to Jimmy Saville? He thought he had a rod from god too!
@lilsniper117
5 жыл бұрын
But it cant be used to deliver payloads into stable earth orbits. You could achieve escape trajectory, but a ballistic trajectory where all the deltaV is applied at the moment of launch cannot achieve a stable orbit.
@Bird_Dog00
7 жыл бұрын
Interesting point about wear of the rails. This makes me think of the coil gun concept. In the coil gun, the projectile never touches the electromagnets, thus no wear occurs. What made the US Navy favour the rail gun over the coil gun? Mass? I immagine a coil gun with its array of multiple electromagnets will be both heavier and bulkier than a rail gun.
@ShneekeyTheLost
6 жыл бұрын
Coil guns don't have nearly the projective force capability that a rail gun does. By at least one order of magnitude, possibly more depending on the type of coils you are using and the methodology used in starting them. Also mass, yes, but mostly it is the projective force issue.
@Bill-rr5el
7 жыл бұрын
Thx now I'm on the FBI watchlist.
@eamartig
5 жыл бұрын
I’m already on several
@hondoonaka1823
4 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how many possibilities this technology offers. Meteor protection, hyper-fast trains(although, that’s mag lev, but it’s still related, kinda like a cousin), giant railgun style systems that could launch something into space, and many more
@trebledc
5 жыл бұрын
3:00 I need to wipe my nose its bleeding.
@majorrgeek
5 жыл бұрын
the recoil from firing such a weapon in space would be a problem
@Jack-ne8vm
5 жыл бұрын
Not if you want the breech to go backwards
@majorrgeek
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-ne8vm - what if you don't want the breech to go backwards?
@Jack-ne8vm
5 жыл бұрын
@@majorrgeek Violate Newton's 3rd law.
@majorrgeek
5 жыл бұрын
@@Jack-ne8vm - you cannot violate any of Newton's laws including conservation of momentum law that's why using such a weapon in space would present a problem since the space gun and its platform would recoil at violent speed depending on its mass ofcourse
@Jack-ne8vm
5 жыл бұрын
@@majorrgeek There was supposed to be a wink on my reply....
@trickydicky2594
4 жыл бұрын
Huge railgun in orbit so heat dispersal is extremely efficient. power it with a fusion reactor, also because of really good heat dispersal. the projectile is actually a capsule for 7 tungsten rods. boom. city tenderizer.
@arnaudballande
7 жыл бұрын
Actually it's the Laplace force that propels the armature not the Lorentz Force. The Lorentz Force is at a microscopic scale and the Laplace force is at a macroscopic scale.
@FALprofessional
7 жыл бұрын
It's the Lorentz Law, but yeah I see what you mean.
@DeusExWolksvagen
7 жыл бұрын
It is not as much as invention so much as development. The concept of railgun has been know for quite some time.
@HuntingTarg
6 жыл бұрын
DeusExWolksvagen its not invented if nobody's built one before.
@jeremycompton9322
3 жыл бұрын
Very good layman's explanation of the overall theory. Thank you for posting.
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