Are there any Gunsmiths or Armors that have experience in weapon design?
I'd like to know about railguns.
As we've got real life examples that work today but what about scaling one down.
In preliminary work you'd need a powerpack that's roughly the same as a car battery or aircraft battery but you'd need something to charge it after every shot.
Capacitors with a hand crank generator will function as a stand in for a battery.
Id just like to know what you know on the subject.
You'd need a fucking generator to get the power of a rifle. Hf carrying around a wagon of capacitors
Yeah, because at glock armor school
They taught us how the glock railgun works
>You'd need a fucking generator to get the power
Duh.
A railgun is a very simple lorentz force motor. since the projectile makes up basically a single conductor that moves through a magnetic field generated by the current in the rails, the current has to be absolutely fucking ludicrous to get the thing up to speed in the limited length of the railgun's rails.
Getting ludicrous current takes sources with low internal impedance and most likely also fairly high voltages as well. And the means to switch that nigh instantly. Which means very high-end semiconductor switches like SCRs or IGBTs or something.
so in theory, you need a bank of capacitors that can handle extremely fast discharge rates, a very capable electronic switching bank, and then two metal rails and a projectile between them. In practice, this will just fucking melt. You need to actually fire the projectile between the rails at a not-insignificant speed before turning on the power just to get the thing to accelerate it further instead of melting everything. So you need some kind of secondary gun to fire the projectile between the rails. Often this is done by hobbyists with some kind of pneumatic launcher.
The technology to make this practical at rifle scale simply does not exist yet. hell, the technology to do this at any scale isn't quite here yet, rail erosion among other things prevents it from being practical at naval gun scale at the moment.
Didn't we have this thread yesterday?
>Didn't we have this thread yesterday?
Didn't we have this thread yesterday?
amateur electrician here!
i wired a few dozen heavy duty high voltage capacitors in parallel to each other to a hand dynamo
dumping the power and recharging them five times each time took 1 minute to recharge them by hand
i suppose if you had a proper hand dynamo and not a toy one you could charge theses faster
You need to talk to physicists and engineers, not gunsmiths for that.
>gunsmiths
do you even know what a gunsmith is?
youtu.be
Simplistic railgun if anyone is interested.
their engineering expertise does not extend to electromagnetism
>electromagnetism
Don't many guns have electronics now?
>Are there any Gunsmiths or Armors that have experience in weapon design?
It's a question not to gunsmiths. Theory behind railguns is a high-school tier and you can calculate everything by yourself.
Not in their actions, no. Guns are still primarily, by and large, a mechanical device. Gunsmiths don't build scopes, lasers, etc. Those are all highly specialized areas of manufacturing.
Gunsmithing is a specific trade, typically for custom modified guns or guns built from the ground up but typically using somewhat proven principles and designs. New designs made by major manufacturers are designed by people with engineering degrees.
>railguns.
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>It's a question not to gunsmiths. Theory behind railguns is a high-school tier and you can calculate everything by yourself.
Well, What calculation do i use?
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