The gun uses nine lithium-ion coils to accelerate coin-shaped projectiles, which are stored in a magazine behind the coils.
Bladerunner, Total Recall, Star Wars, Guardians of the Galaxy, all the future guns predicted and now its reality, a hand held rail gun...
May 18, 2023, 04:56 PM
David Lee
Maybe 300 fps. Sling shot can be faster. Compound bow with carbon fiber shafts? Cross bows are hitting near 500 fps. 220 Swift, 5,000 fps.
May 18, 2023, 05:01 PM
RogueJSK
Handheld electromagnetic rail/coil guns have been a thing for several years now. There's a couple of American companies who make them too, one of which has been producing a model since at least 2017.
They're still very low velocity (~200-300 FPS). That's less than a BB gun. So they're currently basically just "proof of concept" prototypes and novelties, versus actual viable weaponry.
May 18, 2023, 06:23 PM
.38supersig
Bigger and slower than a Hi-Point.
Where is the holster?
May 18, 2023, 06:28 PM
Rey HRH
It's a start though. I'm sure the Wright brothers were criticized for not having free peanuts on their first flight.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
May 18, 2023, 06:31 PM
.38supersig
True, but the least of Mr. Selfridge's concerns was having peanuts.
May 18, 2023, 06:55 PM
fischtown7
Perfect for gas station cashiers in bad areas, HERE'S YOUR CHANGE!
May 18, 2023, 07:31 PM
OttoSig
You bitches won’t buy Chinese made so nobody will have a range report on sigforum!
11 years to retirement! Just waiting!
May 18, 2023, 07:41 PM
12131
quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig: You bitches won’t buy Chinese made so nobody will have a range report on sigforum!
Holosun buying folks will.
Q
May 18, 2023, 08:06 PM
wrightd
That's so funny I can't believe they're serious. Stupid is as stupid does.
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May 18, 2023, 10:37 PM
Ripley
Some of those "rounds" bounce off the paper target.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
May 19, 2023, 05:29 AM
Chuck Perry
quote:
Originally posted by Ripley: Some of those "rounds" bounce off the paper target.
Later on the video shows it punching auto glass and pulverizing a watermelon. A 9MM it's not, but if you hosed somebody full auto with that thing it would change their mind in a hurry.
May 19, 2023, 06:30 AM
Blume9mm
Never saw anything like that in Star Wars or Blade Runner.....
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May 19, 2023, 07:22 AM
12131
I like these better.
Q
May 19, 2023, 09:18 AM
DoctorSolo
The electronics are really interesting but Newton's laws are a bitch. It takes so much electical power to propel a projectile to speeds on par with a combustion driven projectile.
I've always thought such a thing was doable with enough gigantic supercaps but how big are the batteries you are charging them with? YUGE man. yuge...
It will be interesting when we find something that greatly surpasses Li-ion in energy density and practicality (ease/cost of manufacturing, safety margin, etc).
May 19, 2023, 02:02 PM
cslinger
“You’ll shoot your eye out kid”.
Tech always starts small. As has been said examples such as this have been floating around for like 5 years.
I, personally, would like to see an air rifle in .177/.22 that used this tech to accelerate a steel piston or sled to launch commonly available led pellets and then return said sled or piston to ready. Charge it up and get X number of shots before needed to recharge.
It’s got a long way to go before it’s a viable “weapon” though.
"Guns are tools. The only weapon ever created was man."
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May 20, 2023, 12:25 PM
Nipper
I'm holding out until I can find a good ankle holster for it.
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May 20, 2023, 08:26 PM
Lefty Sig
Chia has millions of people trolling the internet with propaganda about how awesome their military technology is and how the US and west would be no match for them.
I don't believe a word of it, nor should anyone else. And I've seen their aircraft carrier Liaoning in port in Dalian. Silly Russian ski jumps and all.
May 22, 2023, 03:28 PM
preten2b
The folks who have never been able to skip smooth rocks on lakes will love this.
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