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Re:Barry's Coilgun Design Site by penprogg on Sunday April 05, 2015 @01:43AM (#9323238)
You might find this to be really cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0

it's a reall full auto gauss cannon. The obvious flaw is that there is no spin added to the projectiles so they flip all over the place.

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Re:Barry's Coilgun Design Site by joshuapants on Sunday April 05, 2015 @10:54AM (#9324175)
I wonder if this could be fixed with better projectile design. A lot of modern tanks have smoothbore barrels because they use rounds with sabots; once the sabot comes apart the actual projectile is self stabilizing.

I guess the other obvious flaw is that getting a coil gun to produce usable velocity takes a hell of a lot of power.

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