An EV Firearm?

[WR Moore]

They've been playing with rail guns for decades. IIRC, there is a trial version on some sort of navy vessel, but we haven't heard much about it. One of my former employers was working on the concept back in the last century. Again, IIRC, I heard they'd pushed a metal coated plastic cube weighing something insignificant to preposterous velocities. Proof of concept, but long way from operational.

In something like the same time period, per a college bud working at APG, there was an acutal man killing laser. Only problem was that the power pack was the size of a railroad boxcar. Given what they're doing with lasers now, they've apparently made significant progress.

In re: noisy cricket. I don't recall J ever hitting what he shot at. Plus the recoil knocked him across the street. Seems the concept needs some work.

 

[Breakaway500]

Ian has a review posted on youtube of the next generation Arcflash GR-02 railgun.


ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality - YouTube

 

[CH4]

I figured people who own EVs pack squirt guns loaded with recycled water.

 

[A10]

Ian has a review posted on youtube of the next generation Arcflash GR-02 railgun.


ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality - YouTube

Way, way cool! If I were a rich man......

 

[delcrossv]

My guess is that a man-portable directed energy weapon probably would not fire solid projectiles, but something like focused-beam gamma rays. I have no idea how that would be accomplished in a small package.

Feds looked into it during the Star Wars years. Used nuclear isomers. You Really Really Really didn't want to be anywhere near one when it was set off.

 

[ameridaddy]

Huh? I thought an EV gun was called a Taser. Been around for some time now.

 

[TX-Dennis]

My son and I built a primitive gauss gun for his science fair project when he was in 5th grade. It was fun, but not very powerful. It fired steel ball bearings.

 

[muddocktor]

The Etronix concept was just too big a technology jump for most customers. It had no tangible performance benefits over conventionally primed ammo, the rifle itself was premium priced, and the ammunition was around $5/round. I don't know if it was reloadable. Sort of the answer to a question that no one asked. I remember wondering about what kind of person would possibly want to buy such a rifle.

They evidently were reloadable, as I remember some years past that they had Etronix primers for sale at one of the places I shopped for reloading supplies. From what I remember, they were priced 5-10 times what normal primers cost.