"Woltereck's Electromagnetic Gun" Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Sep 2014 9:39 p.m. PST |
Cannot found any other data of this in the net.
This could be good for Imagination wargames.
From here
link For translation you can used.
translate.google.com/#fr/en Amicalement
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| bsrlee | 05 Sep 2014 2:37 a.m. PST |
The article is actually in French AND English, the English starts in the 2nd column. |
| emckinney | 05 Sep 2014 8:24 a.m. PST |
It's coilgun. They're very simple in principle, but the engineering challenges are significant. Power limits are also a problem, especially at the beginning of the 20th century. The big benefit is that you don't need to worry about maintaining pressure behind the projectile as the volume behind it expands and it accelerates. That helps when you want really, really fast projectiles because you don't need a massively strong barrel. (You'll still need a long gun, possibly longer than a conventional cannon, but the whole structure can be much lighter.) |
| Lion in the Stars | 05 Sep 2014 3:27 p.m. PST |
If you flip the polarity of the coil instead of just turning it off you double the force on the slug. |
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