Don't doubt that they've likely bought / stolen the technology for this, but if they're actually mounting them on ships and putting them to sea now, that could make things a lot more tense around that part of the world and those disputed islands. http://www.news.com.au/technology/i...p/news-story/6aab73b4402e064d41e7b1af4639c5ed
You know what I find in this is confirmation that what science fiction writers put into their books eventually comes to be a reality I also know that they probably got whatever they have from espionage - China is just not "quality control capable enough" to have birthed such a thing on their own soil. But a rail gun idea has been around for a long time. I am not convinced yet, this may be a spoof. But if it is not I will not be surprised, and the Pentagon knew about it long before this showed up on blogs. NOW! The thing that interests me about it. If you have a huge velocity gun based upon MAG ACCELLERATION of the projectile - the logic here is that it needs a lot of IMMEDIATE power to make the shell or whatever go faster... Near instantaneous as a shot from a rifle, when propellant burns. Like a PULSE of high energy, supplied to the magnets in that device in a successive array in order to fire a projectile in the blink of an eye! But the POWER PLANT for that better be nuclear - or at least very powerful, and have a lot of batteries or capacitors to store a charge to be instantaniously used. A BURST! Measured in microseconds, like a RADAR beam KW that's interesting, don't you think? * My suggest to such a thing would be to measure the projectile speed in order to apply maximum force. What the hell kind of sensors could react fast enough? Optic. Never mind, my brain fell asleep apparently No gunpowder or fuel, no smudge. Optics can be used in the barrel sides If you can call it a barrel - it would need a safety guide sort of tube. But the magnetic fields are the actual barrel as we think of one My next thought is that if you have an antagonist like that (we just described) on a battle field - what is the best way to take it out? And I will tell you this! The heart of it is it's POWER SUPPLY Take down the power plant, and a rail unit is dead. So my first concern is how much energy can the powerplant in that "BOAT" generate? Set aside steaming and stearing, the left over energy is what can be shot (in joules or whatever) from that thing... If it doesn't have a nuclear reactor just sink the foolish thing. (But try not to be caught doing it)
OH! You mean the Islands that never were there before until CHINA sent ships and dredges to build (in an area outside of their own territorial waters and which were already claimed by several nations) fukken islands that they think they can just settle on to claim them as their sovoreign land. THOSE DAMNED ISLANDS!!!! (oops, wrong thread) I DUNNO what set me off, but leave that post here ~Please
I'd be willing to bet that somewhere in China are a set of plans, concept or final that have US Defense Contractor logo's on them....... Is it real or is it Memorex...? #ad
I would guess they would need something like an over sized capacitor to store enough energy for sudden release. Multiple capacitors could be alternated to help maintain rate of fire. So the question really becomes, how long does it take to charge said capacitor so you can determine the sustained rate of fire. And what happens if you fire at less than full charge? Reduced range? Or does it mess with the aiming at closer ranges as well? Kentucky windage on a rail gun?
I would assume it to be of the same range and very similar caliber of who they stole the plans from (likely us).
No doubt further developed by government owned exchange students that they sent to school over here too...
