lol iv done that a few times

Doing trim work I would often hit the deck and reload my nail gun in the most dramatic fashion possible. Pissed everyone off but fuck did I think it was funny.

👍😆

@@hazloner117 I've done that with a staple gun

Firearm fans in China.exe

i agree lmao

cap explosion will be the new garand finger and revolver drum chain firing

Microwave safe, just wait until the Boston Dynamic dogs get one mounted with AI doing the automatic targeti while addressing citizens to stand down they're breaking curfew .

You could use it as a grenade when you feel it getting really hot, just lob your weapon at the enemy, who, never seeing anything like it, will pick it up and 'play' with it... BOOOM!

@@PeterMaddison2483 "...a real killer ... would've immediately asked about the little red button on the bottom of the gun..."

underated comment

I was thinking it's more like a m41a pulse rifle caseless

absolutely underrated comment

You know your weapons, buddy.

Sounds aweful to use something like this in modern combat just throw an emp and your whole squad is done

Probably nothing, when you see the paper target the bullet just spinned in the air and landed on it's side, it's a sign of low power.

200ft/s is lower end speed of airsoft shot, here 16:23 at 0.25 speed it is possible to count flying bullets, visually

@@alexpetrov8871 ya there were a few points in the video when you could see the round in the air for a fraction of a second.

This was my thought in testing this weapon. We don't get a very goo idea of what it's capable of when it's shot at a flimsy target. Another thought I had is if it was possible to belt feed it or otherwise extend it's magazine size.

If we knew the mass of the bullets we could pretty easily compute the kinetic energy (1/2*m*v^2) and compare it to a more conventional bullet. My guess is it's not very damaging. I mean, I still wouldn't want to get hit by it, but I kind of doubt it's lethal. I'm guessing somewhere around pellet gun, maybe less.

Shot gun slugs

That's what I was thinking, could dowel pins with rifling grooves embedded in them self stabilize in flight?

@@saint-cetacean You'd actually be better served with fin stabilization since the projectile never physically touches the barrel.

@@1337penguinman APFSDS coilgun? ;)

Fin stablized sabotted rounds?

Yeah that was an odd combination on the bingo card, but we got it

Legit sounds like a mad lib

At least he can go pick up the bits and use them in the shop.

The future is now, old man.

then you just werent imagining hard enough

Pics or it didn't happen

@@shmillbe3390 Welllll... I suppose you're not wrong. 🤷‍♀ I wish that phone cameras were a thing back in 1998-99. ...Although I probably wouldn't have been able to afford one at that time.

Well I know you are lying so there's that.

what type of capacitors did you use? "pulse capacitors" unfortunately doesn't tell much to me. Film capacitors? what kind of film, what nominal voltage? etc.

please elaborate on your design

i hoped this would be covered in the video, thanks man

It doesn't really cover all of it. What if instead of standard pellets you use drill bits or crossbow steel bolts ?

Thank you for all of the science, it would be annoying to do it myself. However, for calling it a “toy,” I think that this would suit the idea of a “range toy.”

What about pellet rifles? Hpa pellet rifles could probably run circles around this. I don’t want to kill the concept but the execution still underwhelms me.

It's still a toy, unfortunately A slingshot would vastly out perform it, and that's a toy too in this day and age. A dangerous toy, but a toy none the less.

By that point Gun Jesus will be preaching to his flock of wastelanders outside of the bunker doors of the Titan missile museum.

@@IAssassinII Instead of worshipping a nuclear bomb Ian's followers will gesticulate before "the Holy Show-Show".

@@IAssassinII The same bunker breached and secured by a fireteam of LPL clones towards the end of the war.

why a clone? he is Gun-Jesus, he just has to descend from heaven at that time for a review? or maybe use divine Wi-Fi if he can't be bothered to come down here? :p

you mean ww5

This exactly

So accurate.

Weren't there some staplers that used electromagnets or whatever to do the work? I seem to remember there being 90s staplers like that... back when paper was a thing...

My stapler. Can I have my stapler?

I'm sure some industrious individual could simply include a speaker and project whatever firing sound they want. Star wars blaster sounds. 50cal, whip sound, clown springs, fapping noises. Idk... Bottom line, could be a future market for gauss gun firing noises. Ideally though, no sound on later versions will make it a snipers dream.

hell yea. get muzzle velocity up to over 1000fps and you have a winner!

@@markthompson8656 according to a quick search it's up to 75m/s or about 246 freedoms per second, so it's got a little ways to go. I imagine they're refining the system at a civilian sales safe level (since this is barely scratching airsoft guns, just with much heavier projectiles) before they start ramping it up. I give it.... two years maybe.

I can see the muzzle velocity getting higher pretty easily. Hacksmith did it, so can they.

"... up a bit"? Ya Think? My Daisy Red Ryder spring operated BB gun has a higher muzzle velocity. I ain't shitty you..... 85 to 90 m/s when well oiled with a new spring. This glorified rubber band shooter is only a threat to balloons, glass windows, and stationary insects.

​@@bigdickpornsuperstar the original guns were bamboo rods firing rocks, things take time to get better. This is clearly still a work in progress and definitely not ready for military use.

Energy weapons and science?

Not really "whatever" will fit. It needs to be a ferrous material.

@@chris101ward You can buy stock tubes of iron and steel at most hardware stores so, just chop them to length and you're good to go

Indeed! And with the pins tumbling through the air, I actually wonder if "ball shot" wouldn't offer better aerodynamics.

@@Aethgeir like ball bearings?

They just need to make it shoot about six times as fast...

When you buy a high tier item as a low tier

LMAO

Living the steam/ cyber punk dream

Man living the fps life

" I'm your huckleberry "

If only those projectiles hit a bit harder. They're cheap as all shit. Dowel pins sized enough for this gun run at about 400 for $30 😂

sadly the no recoil is because there aint no energy behind each individual shot, we're talking like less than a paintball gun

@@drb0mb Of course, there are ways to reduce recoil on heavier guns, this is obviously not a heavy one

@@drb0mb A lot of the recoil you feel in a gun doesn't come directly from the projectiles but rather the actions of the gun's mechanisms. Something like this would still only have the recoil from the projectile which can be easily compensated for.

​@@drb0mbDon't confuse speed for energy please, it has less projectile velocity than a paintball gun , it is around double the energy of most paintball guns. It will also transfer that energy way more effectively, by not shooting balls that explode and disperse out energy. It's nowhere near an actual gun that is for sure but this thing should still not be shot at a person it will definitely be dangerous. It is more comparable to an Airgun (Not to be confused with an airsoft gun) which you should also not be firing at people unlike a paintball gun.

Not a musket.

Gauss Blaster!

Mass Driver? Particle accelerator?

or just Gauss Gun? "Say hello to GG."

@@GeomancerHT How is it not a musket? Essentially the difference between a musket and a rifle is the lack of rifling

@@robinpage2730 I gave you a thumbs, but methinks you’re a bot.

@@robinpage2730 Well Thankya.

Ar last! A use for all the poorly-hardened, worn out screw driver bits I've trashed in my time.

@@charlesprokopp276 good god if thats the case ive got a tool box full of spot-weld drill bits / newfound ammo in my garage 0_o

@@robinpage2730 Aren't we a bit too far into the future for using C?

It is far from supersonic (it has hunting bow arrow speeds), and no explosion to propel the projectile. The clicking sounds you hear when it fires are likely just mechanical parts, and my guess it is all just the magazine.

@@louisvictor3473 if it has the same firing system as the previous one, the click is likely the solenoid smacking the back of the projectile into the coils to launch them. other than that there really shouldn't be any noise at all.

@@rathkiee That is the one I was trying to remember. The magazine has moving parts, but yeah, definitelly not the dominant sound.

That may be the only upside of this weapon.

We need the gun that shoots another gun

I need a gun that shoots 9" nails.

Or one that can shoot railroad ties.

I mean, if you sharpen the drill bit...

5/16th inch is a mighty small knife .. The comment about sharpening ( or shaping ) the drill bits is spot on. ☺

Firing drill bits is right out of fallout

@@GuinessOriginal good stuff lol

@@GuinessOriginal Firing drill bits makes home depot and lowes ammunition stores as well

The only problem with this is unlike a powder-based weapon in which anyone with a lathe can make one, to make an electromagnetic weapon you need computer parts and chips, you need a really good quality electro magnets, incredibly energy dense power cells, and a lot of other materials that frankly are not easily produced on your own or downright impossible for your average joe in his basement shelter.

@@Shinzon23 That's why on their store they sell it for 2.5k

Hah, with the backdrop, aviators, and cowboy hat I was thinking more New Vegas. Pretend these things are around, but nobody knows how to make them work. They sell for a lot to collectors, which you may pursue after unlocking the Gauss weapon mastery perk. They won't sell to you for less that 99,999 caps unless they're talking to a fellow connoisseur, and you can't use it even if you steal it. You may also sell them the ones you don't use, where regular vendors won't even buy them. The guy who looks like this and only uses coil/rail systems teaches you how to rebuild and use them. And then you have to decide if you turn over the knowledge to the NCR, House, or neither. House makes you kill Ian to progress his main quest after. You're better off not telling him. He knows Ian and Ian knows him. And if House can't have the tech, it's a liability to him. He just can't find or fight Ian. Ian knows how to hide and how to fight, and understands esoteric, old-world ballistic tech like nobody alive. His bag of tricks is dastardly. He may be the most knowledgeable expert in munitions and combat tactics on the continent. As dangerous as he can be valuable. Once he knows you can reach Ian, you have to bring him/end him before proceeding. NCR wants to kill him to preserve the secret of the tech and keep it out of the hands of people like House and the b-hood after getting it to themselves, but can be convinced not to depending on certain factors. Ian may even be convinced to join if given access to tools and a job making weapons the best they can be without having to hide in the middle of a hot zone, teaching troops how they work and how to shoot, so on. Perhaps at the Hoover, some rangers use them and it gives an edge to you. Or you can tell him of their plot and join him in taking down the NCR... using a souped up version of the coilgun he gave you for helping him before. You could probably also just shoot him and take that coilgun after learning how to use them. Or sneak in and steal it lol. But if you're caught and you have to fight him, he has a DR of 85 and it turns out those dowels can one-shot deathclaws. If you do none of this, send him to work for the NCR, he eventually gives you a different coilgun with roughly equivalent benefit factor, or produces legendary mods for standard models. The old Enclave guys might like you more if you show them a certain one that sparks a memory. Maybe Ian can help with access to NCR resources. Brotherhood would just come and try to take it if they weren't hiding in a bunker, but if any of them see you with one they might reward you in exchange for letting them analyze it. If you're a foe, they might kill you to take it. Obviously *Ian's Coilgun* is a much coveted weapon for people specced into both guns and energy weapons, gaining damage and accuracy from both. It is a devestating and versatile weapon capable of everything from non-lethal crowd control to a deathclaw army fitted with laser gatlings. It can even be used as a stealth assasination tool, at range with single-fire self-spinning, and close by switching to full auto short dowels that dispatch with quick and quiet bursts. The tradeoff in the steep skill requirement to wield it that way is that you can craft a multitude of good rounds for it from literally any scrap metal item with no investment in repair. Melt down some forks, metal dinner plates, etc. You could build to the 9s for it and rule the wastes with a forgotten weapon that nobody can match or use. Maybe you befriend a character who gives you a unique one for free because it wasn't doing them any good and nobody wanted to buy it for how rare it was. It's endgame. But finding Ian is only half of the battle. You have to impress him with your firearms knowledge (guns check,) or he won't even break way from his tinkering to speak with you. You can reduce the check by showing him a rare and powerful gun. Bypass it by letting him take it for 3 days. And even then, the marksmanship challenges are no joke... nor are the places he sends you to get the parts for his prototype. You'll probably want to wait until you are at least level 30 to even try. With speech 90 you can at least bypass the guns/marksmanship checks to get to the mission. If you wait long enough to get to another unrelated quest, you can find him on the verge of dying and save him with medicine skill. But the mission is the part you wish you could skip. The whole time you will think "If only I had Ian's Coilgun..."

Railroad tie gun😂

@@calebcase80 Nahhhhh that thing is just a regular ballistic gun that happens to run on pneumatic force. It's just a goofy air rifle, like a big BB gun that shoots railway ties, or an over-glorified potato gun. The whole gun + railroad thing I think makes people think "railgun" but a railgun is strictly an electromagnetic weapon. It just uses charged rails to bring an armature up the barrel that can then slingshot the projectile out at speeds upwards of mach 7. It works like an electric motor. Two oppositely charged rails connected to a power supply push an armature between them (typically a conductive sliding bolt) when current runs across the three via the armature itself connecting the load side of the circuit. If there's a bolt in there when you put power to the rails, it flies. The two rails have EMFs spinning into one another because of their opposing charges and parallel alignment, so when you put that armature in the circuit, physically sitting between those fields, it is ejected forward, perpendicular to the two rails. This is because of Lorentz force - when those two oppositely-rotating fields meet one another, magnetic force pushes at right angles from the rails and armature, as in... down the barrel. The armature can be part of the projectile (I mean, the projectile is essentially a bolt too,) or a permanent mechanism in the gun that can allow it to fire even non-conductive projectiles. But that's what you need for it to be a railgun of any kind. FWIW, the muzzle velocities on em are terrifying, well beyond what we get with regular controlled rapid combustion. Like, these things really can go upwards of mach 7. The fastest regular firearms do like mach 4 and tend to be smaller projectiles. Railguns are just impractical to power, are way too big, and wear the hell out too easy. The railroad deffo aint the ones pulling that one off. A coilgun like the EMG uses solenoid coils to push the mass of a ferromagnetic projectile down the barrel, also like an electric motor, but relying on (essentially) free-floating ferromagnetic projectiles instead of an armature that has to make a physical, electrical connection with rails while moving multiple times the speed of sound like in a railgun. It's more related to the Gauss Rifle than the Railway Rifle, if we're talking FO4. The name of that weapon is just another word for "coilgun," which is what the EMG-02 actually is. Though I must admit the steam and train sounds make me smile and giggle like a toddler, and if ever it was a real thing that existed, I would own one and pin objects to trees with it every day while pulling an invisible train horn and making train sounds.

@@differentbutsimilar7893 This man has formulated a FNV mod that must be made.

fuck i hate that game . bethesda is garbage

That and if the power supply is the size of a conventional US navy ship nuclear reactor. (Talking about the rail gun)

@@Triumvirately oh there are ways to get that power consumption way way down lol

Interesting information. I have designed three coil guns, but called them rail guns by mistake... OOPS!

@@joeparker9516 yeah, rail guns are like coil guns if your goal is to hit your target, several dozen feet of reinforced concrete, and bury the payload several dozen more feet under a bus sized crater… depending on the size of the payload.

@@matthewnienkirchen8083A coil gun isn't _necessarily_ slower than a rail gun, but it gets more and more complicated the higher you want the projectile speed to be because driving the coils with the correct timing to track the accelerating projectile gets more and more precise, and will require increasingly large voltage to change the magnetic fields rapidly enough (resulting in increased flashover risks). A rail gun doesn't have this particular problem since its fields naturally follow the projectile without requiring any external timing, though to compensate a railgun is just a much bigger headache overall, especially if you were hoping it fire it more than once ;-)

If they ever put self stabilizing rounds in it.

I could see coil guns being used by law enforcement as a form of less lethal. Though not this one specifically. I saw one that fires metal disks at quite some speed. It wouldn't be lethal, but they'd hurt like hell. And being able to shoot 50+ of those things per magazine, I think it would be a lot more efficient than beanbags

One advantage is, you can take a large magnet and run it around the target gong area and recover your ammo!

@@LeeAndersonMusic not a bad idea. Like a little plastic shell for pepperspray, or a beanbag you mentioned. Maybe even a long range, no wire taser would be cool. I wanted to make a “sabot/flechette” thingy for a ar-15. You put it on the end of the barrel, like a rifle grenade, and the bullet is caught, and the taser thing is launched. So you could theoretically tase someone 4x the distance.

i think it might take off due to cheap reusable ammo and relatively not a lot of complex parts cheap, versatile, very quiet and low recoil make them good for stealth, and no flash to give away your position all in all if one ever gets mass produced the army would probably contract it

@@Ribbons0121R121 this should take off like a rocket for exactly the reasons you mentioned. The ammo will be so cheap. It doesn't need complex chemicals engineered like a bullet. Those batteries are good for 300 rounds. This is the near future. Silent. No recoil. No moving parts. Nothing to clean. Zero maintenance. The few parts it has are cheap and easy to swap out by the user. I would expect to see several designs within 3 years. Multiple low number test weapons. And full production within less than 10 years of different types. It's already working, but it needs higher speeds and better aiming.

Once that happens, you can bet this will enter the military fast!

@@peasantjeff4731 They'll need to solve projectile stabilization, or it will never be accurate enough for military adoption.

@@bubba200874426 the trillions in the M.I.C will pour in and solve that issue pretty fast, if a tech is promising enough the DoD/MIC will jump in on it before completion.

@@peasantjeff4731 I imagine you could just spin the projectile up on a motorized platter which grips it magnetically (mounted normal to the barrel at the rear of the chamber), then release it and have the coils pull the now-spinning projectile down the barrel like usual. No rifling needed if the forces are well-balanced and the alignment is good.

@@bubba200874426 sabots with darts in them. Think miniature AFPDS rounds. Stabilization is relatively easy to fix.

BNC

Definitely something X-Com would field. 99% chance to hit with this baby and it would still miss 😆

@@dvpant3651 LOL I call Xcom "the miss game"

I immediately thought of Fallout.

It really needs the sweet sound effects of Long War’s Gauss Rifles. 😛

lol. yes

So basically it's never going to see real use.

@@thenecromancer8805 in its current iteration, no. It is currently too crude to be of any practical use past 20yds

@@Sean_XT still a pretty neat futuristic musket

@@BetaBreaking eh, I doubt this will every become viable outside of space warfare where the vacuum environment and thin protection makes these viable. And that assumes we are sending humans to fight in space, where a drone/missile of some kind will be far more effective. I mean, even denying oxygen resupply would be enough to kill your enemy lol.

@@checker297 conventional firearms would work in space so you dont even really need something like this

or you can rifle the bullets?

​@@gabriellang7998That was the point, both barrel and projectile being rifled, just used "threaded". However at anything close to this power stage, I'm doubtful that would work. Because it would introduce a comparatively huge amount of friction, whereas these current models practically has no friction at all.

I am eager to have the answer on whether or not this will become a legit lethal and useful thing or if it'll remain a gimmick. Only time will tell UNLESS there's a proper scientific research that talk about it (but I don't have any link, hence the comment :) )

pretty sure a winter jacket is gonna be enough to protect you lol.

@@justpette1503 not really a gimmick it's just selling R and D

pretty sure it would just bounce off

oof it'd be gnarly

And the fire-rate is much improved. Excited to see the third version!

Makes you wonder where they'll be in 1yr , 5 yrs? I for one am staying tuned!

@@dlmsarge8329 the electrical-side can be upgraded so much more! Right with you with being so curious as to see where it will be in the years and even months to come 😃

@@dlmsarge8329 Unfortunately, couple of decades likely. We are limit by battery and capacitor technology by a lot and I mean a lot

@@calmsoul772 Given that Ian said that drill battery is good for about 300 rounds, I think we've got quite a bit of leeway in current battery tech before it starts limiting development.

it'd have to have surfaces that spring out of the round on exit from the barrel to have enough area for air to implement a torque capable of stabilization. Would be extremely expensive to make it work at this scale, but what you're talking about is a real thing similar to some smoothbore tank ammunition, check out "armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot"

You people don’t understand the many ways that monopole coils are wound.

@@danielfoster2788 please show me an example of a monopole magnet. It can be permanent or electromagnet. So far it's not theoretically possible.

@@flyback_driver We are familiar with hallbach and pile magnets grouping that are very closely monopole not perfectly so. Fractal coils produce much better monopoles. Half spherical coils cancel magnetism within. There are monopoles POE toroidal coil windings, and star coil windings that are monopole.

that would be sweet.

More to life than video games. Turn it off.

@@Wesmancan dude chill we are talking a sciFi weapon.

@@Wesmancan lmao. I don't even play quake. its an iconic part of game history and it's refrenced everywhere. how bout you turn your screen off instead of tellin folks what to do with their spare time?

@@Wesmancan you know people are allowed to have fun, y'know?

And both get harder to make work well the faster you're aiming for, either way. The railgun because it erodes faster, the coilgun because the faster the projectile is moving, the narrower the timing of the coil switching needs to get for that perfect synch.

@@Kharmitas The timing of the coils isn't really the issue, microcontrollers can read sensors, calculate data, then control the coils many orders of magnitude faster than a coil gun can accelerate a projectile. The biggest issue is a power source able to provide the necessary current.

Rail guns in future will have some kind of super alloy possibly for the conductor rails or if not maybe quick swap rail conductors

So my question is the large hadron collider a looped rail gun or a looped coil gun? I know it uses electromagnets to fly the particles around it and make it collide with other particles but is it rail or coil?

@@pihermoso11 coils, the particles arente touching anything before the impact.

"I use a railgun for home defense since that's what the founding fathers intended"

I'd go with the plasma rifle personally. More stopping power.

@@Greeev did you consider the gooey mess you have to clean up?

WRONG

@@Pheonixco if by that you mean the lack of identifiable remains/evidence, yes.

As long as we can continue to make new and innovative ways to delete people we'll definitely make it that long lol.

Ian's grandchild will be making videos about this weapon.

primate man inspects a crude, homemade predecessor to the ancient coilgun gun, circa 2022

@@Klaaism Maybe, maybe. Look here: ! New: Apocalypse Coilgun, Fallout Coilgun ukposts.info/have/v-deo/f2lenoGOh69-p6M.html See also: Portable Super Coilgun: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/qpOdgKmIcKSqxps.html&feature=youtu.be ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ZZ2beKenlqWIu58.html ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kXyAja6qqKyb2GQ.html ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rnWjpZ5ne4WQtGQ.html ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h3Z6hWmnmnyL0Yk.html

At this point why not just use bearing balls as projectiles?

Dude the gyrojet ammo is a perfect solution for this thing's abysmally low velocity. That's actually kind of brilliant.

​​@@kynaston1474Are you thinking of magnetically stabilised and accelerated gyrojet rounds? Make them explosive and we got ourselves a bolter!

I was thinking the same, maybe fluted rounds?

space blunderbuss!

Envisioning it as a muzzle loader.

Today I fire the Wave Motion Cannon

Project SPIW revisited.

On that note, could they load like a pack of needles or something in a nonmagnetic holder to make it a single-shot flechettes shotgun (single shot because the nonmagnetic holder needs to be ejected each time from the magazine). I don't know if it would even be possible to have a low-magnetism holder to shoot it at the same time as the needles but at a lower speed and distance?

To protect from EMP pulse makes them impractical for any large scale military or law enforcement use.

@@letsgowinnietheflu5439 Just make the outer layer sheetmetal instead of plastic?

Just think, I can purchase 1000 bullets from my favorite reloading company for $119. This literally makes ammo cheap lol 😂. I can see a Mega Chad at a Tesla recharging station like, “charging up my XJ556 Rifle”. While holding up the line of Tesla car owners in his Ford Raptor. Lol 😂

@@codebebop yeah, wait till government ban lead and powder because environment hazard

@@letsgowinnietheflu5439 by that logic the military shouldn’t use radios, GPS, computers, modern aircraft or any other electronic devices. EMPs don’t work like that.

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Their GR-1 model has 75 ft lbs of energy. Which is closer to being lethal. I think 80 ft lbs of energy has a 20% lethality rate.

@@robertpatter5509 I wonder how long/ if it is possible to produce a coilgun for actual combat. I know rn there's many constraints on batteries which restricts weapons like this but they are very cool.

@@collinb.8542 i bet a large military contractor could make something like this work for a military application today. the lithium power pack for hand tools hold enough energy to be within the realm of feaseable for a combat loadout. 2-3 battery packs to 6-12 mags with about 150-200 rounds of ammo is not out of the question. making it more powerful is straightforward. making it accurate isnt impossible, but is a bit tricky, thats where the larger budget would come in.

@@collinb.8542 Waiting for more breakthroughs in super conductor materials that don't have to be super cooled, this one thing is holding back an actual shittonne of already proven and viable tech, some of it decades old, that's how long that one problem has been holding stuff back, otherwise we would now have fast efficient magnetic levitation (MAglev) trains and cars everywhere.

@@collinb.8542 its possible now, you just need to put a lot of amps through those coils and it will move a bullet

"Double whammy"

Then swap to your trusty crowbar

@J Cal just have it Bluetooth to your earpiece. No need for them to hear a damn thing. You could even program it to have a countdown for every bullet.

half life type beat

@J Cal so have a setting to turn the voice off

Oooo, sabot coilgun. I like. Hmmm... can the unreleased wings be used to build spin in the barrel by giving them opposing charges?

If they were ever to get to a point where the projectiles are supersonic like normal bullets, I'm sure it'd be a fair bit louder, but yeah it's cool how it just ticks at you like a sewing machine.

there's also a strong solenoid pushing the projectile into the first accelerator coil. The clicking you hear is the solenoid activating, not the trigger.

I don't claim to be a clairvoyant, but I could imagine the 2030s, 2040s, 2050s when we have batteries that are powerful enough to deliver serious kinetic energy out of a railgun or a coilgun? (I'm not talking .22LR energy, I'm talking scary levels of energy, enough to impale someone into a wall or a tree with metal rods like the flechette artillery rounds from Vietnam). Don't get me wrong, the Arcflash rifles are cool as hell, and are very promising first steps towards man portable coilguns, so I'm not bashing them. But their "stopping power" is limited. I think once they become more powerful, smaller and advanced as battery tech advances (hydrogen cells, beta radiation batteries like Americium batteries, solid state batteries, etc)? The first military units who will adopt them will be special forces/SF guys. Think about it. You could have a railgun/coilgun that fires a bullet the size and weight of a 7.62x39mm bullet, and delivers similar kinetic energy. But the magazines will only have to be as long as handgun magazines because there's no need for a case, just the bullet. You could carry far more rounds that deliver similar energy, and you have a rifle that is almost completely silent, requires less maintenance (no carbon fowling in the barrel or gas systems, because there's no combustion!), you could theoretically make your own ammo in the field if you had to, and for the purposes of clandestine operations? You leave little ballistic trace. No gunshot residue, no casings, no sign that a gunfight even occurred, all your enemy sees after you leave is a bunch of dead guys and strange 7.62mm bullets they've never seen before, or if you're using metal rods? A couple of dead dudes who've been impaled into a wall or a bed. It could be an ideal special forces weapon for those reasons, plus the one you mentioned. It will likely be quieter than any suppressed combustion firearm (other than subsonic .22s) and has the potential to be far more powerful.

If the make these powerful enough to stay just under the sound barrier(1080fps I believe) these thing will be scary

@@keithm5378 i can imagine similar weapons being used on vehicle mounted mode taking energy from the vehicle it self, like a minigun for example In such a configuration for example it won't need the battery and it won't really need to be that accurate either taking to account the amount o projectiles it can produce 😁

Hell, it's like something he built in a fever dream of a weekend

Imagine the last thing you hear before getting capped by a coil gun being Tim's weird "EEEEUUUGHHHHHH".

But his wife was hot 🔥

Yes of course. Maybe, maybe. See also: New! Apocalypse Coilgun, Fallout Coilgun ukposts.info/have/v-deo/f2lenoGOh69-p6OI.html

We're on the express lane to the cyberpunk dystopia of our dreams

@@Embassy_of_Jupiter you mean nightmares?

Its still science fiction. Not nearly a usable weapon and I dont see any improvement of that in the foreseeable future. US Navy already created a large version of an electromagnetic gun... and it kinda sucks. Big, impractical and not much effect.

@@termitreter6545 I still wouldn't want to be hit by it if I was just wearing a bandoleer, a mohawk and wielding a baseball bat.

@@jayhom5385 But you wouldnt mind getting hit if you had a thick leather jacket too ;)

an interesting thing to note is that a penumatic gun exists that uses 6mm bearings for that very purpose, breaking car windows or the like without being lethal. So your Dad was definately onto something there. using a backpack allows for much larger batteries, too.

Flip the magazine (or add a top port) and let gravity feed improvised ammo into the gun on full auto.

@@DFX2KX that's really just an airsoft gun firing ball bearings

Plasma rifle is even cooler!

@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Also knows as a BB gun...

Having a screen to show the charge level still seems like it would be useful. Definitely a physical switch for fire mode and safe would be more practical though

@@Duck_Destroyer_88 Most powertools use LEDs to show charge level - that would probably make the most sense here too.

Many of those kind of powertool batteries even have charge indicator LEDs built in.

What I was thinking as well. You need to do a lot of work to make a screen legible in daylight (you essentially need it to be brighter than the Sun which is pretty bright I'm told by people who actually go outside). My initial thought was to make a hooded recess with LEDs next to labels, but a simple mechanical switch is a much better idea. Charge levels can be represented with an array of LEDs or something. Other data seems to be mostly for debugging, but I'm no expert in coilguns. Overall, this is obviously a prototype that was designed and tested indoors, and it's pretty great. Would be interesting to see how they go about stabilising the projectile.

Probably, but iirc they likened these to the wright brother's aircraft vs an ar15's jet fighter; that screen is there to show the user the 'debug' stuff as much as anything. When the next gen/more reliably ones start turning up, then I'll be surprised if you're not right and it gets replaced.

My thoughts exactly. And no more lead exposure at the range...

@@Noxis07 Easy eyeball scan should sort that. Anything that looks too damaged you just dump, what looks fine will probably be fine to launch. Remember, no pressure or barrel dimensions to worry too much about. And steel projectiles tend to be more resilient than lead-copper variants.

@@Noxis07 you can still approximately re-grind them to the right shape. since there's no direct contact beetween projectile and a barrel, the shape doesn't need to be as exact and perfect as on a firearm

Just like the post-nerf-battle dart hunts of old.

You must be from California to take "lead exposure at the range" as a serious concern.

Half of what you said still isn't applicable to this. It's not practical or anywhere near being useable as an infantry weapon. Still, maybe in 15-30 years.... Maybe?

Not really bud not enough power to be useful for anything !!!

It sounded like a bb gun ringing off that steel

@@LegendStormcrow I've seen a a hobbyist here on youtube make his own gauss rifle with reasonable power. Problem is by the third round the barrel e.g the rails and the magnets, melt.

mass effect guns

Fortunately dowel pins are stupid cheap. Probably only worth the effort to collect them if you're firing hundreds or thousands.

Unless it hits something and deforms

Always a good idea to keep your range as tidy as possible.

@@lucasblanchard47 I think their point was that magnet sweeping for coilgun projectiles is the closest recycling equivalent of brass reloading for firearms, not that you'd have to reload cases for this.

@@lucasblanchard47 Thank Buddha it doesn't use lead. See, another aspect of a weapon transitioning from the status quo.

Are we running out of nitrogen?

@@kovona Of course not. But it'll be interesting to see a future where defense contractors aren't making an ROI in the tens of thousands of percent for selling what is effectively really compressed air. Also, it'd mean all that nitrogen in the defense budget would go to agriculture instead, lowering food costs and home gardening costs to some extent.

Umm... they would have to invest the savings into acquiring the lithium and other metals relating to electronics.

(Within)100 years till proper coil gun. My guess.

Greater velocity and drum mag!

If they made a coil gun with a back pack battery that might be enough to make them lethal, the back pack would be bulky but the silence of the weapon would make it really good for stealth operations.

@@Dagrizzb i’d give it 20 years tops. we probably already have the technology to make a proper coil gun. humans have greater knowledge and technology than we did back when the first firearms came out, so it shouldn’t take as long to start inventing a viable coil gun

Exactly

That's the first thing I thought of. If that thing pops, at the very least you're going to lose your hearing.

Ohh yeah, that bad boy pops and it's gonna be bad. I've also seen a good many videos of traditional magazines just exploding because of a very rare fault. High-density energy storage is dangerous, especially when you want to use a lot of it at once. It's just SO cool though!

Good thing I'd rather just have a PCP air rifle than this thing... any day of the week.

FUSE, but then again with contemporary guns you literally have EXPLOSIONS near your face ... so .. yeah :D

You should feel it swell in time to drop it and run before it blows. Still, that plus the possibility of some wires coming loose and shocking you... I don't like it at all tbh, big capacitors are scary

Some sort of cage+venting structure should allow for preventing physical damage to the capacitor and containing any fragmentation from a burst capacitor while also not allowing pressure to build up into a bomb. Still, I bet the thing is heavy enough as-is, although a polymer structure probably isn't that heavy anyways. It could also make a more ergonomic/adjustable stock too, or have storage etc available.

Well, it's not like the capacitor on a radar transmitter charged up to lethal voltages. 60v stings but that's about it. The drill battery prevents the cap from being charged in reverse.

@@eloiseharbeson2483 more than the shock, is about the explosion if it gets damaged by any bump, even a small capacitor gets propelled when exploding and it can poke an eye out, pretty sure they will adress that in the future tho.

@@viriatrix9874 this, I remember blowing up capacitors in electronics class, when this one goes I wouldn't want my face there.

Let's keep anything federal government related the Hell away from this stuff.

That was my first thought as well, all that ammunition is reusable if recovered and simply wiped off.

I would love to see what the "rounds" look like after hitting the steel plate. I would image that the ones on the paper target would be reusable, just difficult to find.

Well this gun has something good compared to standard rifles. Weight and ammo that weight less. The only thing is battery...

@@Wolfshead009 Look up 52100 steel. It's what most dowel pins and berings are made of.

Yeah, I saw the flaws too, but then I imagine a team working on different bits and just getting to a point where it works for a proof of concept. I'm sure they have better versions going now and in their heads.

There's quite a lot of progress towards usability too which is good to see. Just sort of got to figure out a way of finding an ammo that doesn't keyhole as much, I wasn't hugely impressed with the Mk1 but they're getting there

Should have recruited a high-school-er to do the modeling .

ELECTRIC GUNS CANT BEAT A BIG BLOK CHEVY

I'm just afraid that some of the fundamental limitations (can't rifle the barrel 'cause that's not how the barrel works, etc) will curtail the potential on the design as a whole.

It literally fires at a velocity lower than a Red Ryder BB-gun, so I wouldn't say "almost practical" quite yet lol

Yes but it’s potentially several hundred times the projectile mass so that changes things.

@@idontcare-ct7jm clearly just a proof of concept. with a military budget I can easily see how this could be made into an incredibly powerful weapon.

Plus it just using a dowl pin. Imagine making a vaned flechette round for this. All you need is ferris metal and I'm sure someone could mill someone that flies more accurately and has better penetration.

no where near practical. airsoft guns literteally hit harder. its shooting a 9 gram bullet at 71m/s thats less than one joul of kinetic energy. a .22 is about 170 joules. for referenc.e high power airsoft guns can easily get into 2-3 joules of energy if using the heavier .3g or .4g bb's

Auto loaders are still pretty sus on tanks but it sure is better to have a extra tank crew for every 3-4 autoloader tank crews as compared to manual

22th century: "I'll never trust a gun powered by biologically engineered mechanical pistol shrimp pneumatic mechanism"

Couldn’t an EMP be an issue without some some sort of faraday cage around the thing?

A bit more like... Mid-19th Century: "I'll never trust an auto-loader, they get gummed up too easily and are not reliable." (Before smokeless powder was invented) Late-19th Century: "I'll never trust a machine gun, it's just not feasible to provide that much ammunition to just one firearm and it's too wasteful." Early-20th Century: "I'll never trust a gas operated firearm with a gas porn in the barrel, it obviously will reduce velocity, energy, and accuracy." Mid-20th Century: "I'll never trust sub-.30 cal ammunition, it is not sufficiently lethal." Late-20th Century: ... people still arguing about 'unreliable' AR vs 'inaccurate' AK, and 'weak' 9mm vs 'slow' .45... Early-21st Century: "I'll never trust a battery-powered gun, it's too reliant on external power..." And people are still arguing about AR vs AK and 9mm vs .45.

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Yeah absolutely terrified to use that

@@murphy7801 Quit being scared

@@lucky43113 Since a capacitor that size could easily decapitate you if it were to explode since they completely blocked the pressure release point, you should be scared.

Do you have a preferred source for them? I've seen a lot of sketchy looking offerings.

@@JBloodthorn Unfortunately no, all of mine have been kinda weird ;) Banggood seems to have some less sketch ones, but then again it is banggood lol

That's why the screen was visible indoors, where it was darker. In the bright sun the shutter was much faster and we could see just one line. :D

I'm wondering if the projectiles cannot be round for electromagnetic effects to work properly, and ArcLabs should already know the answer to that question. If they don't, however, then testing is the only solution.

@@dionh70 its more of a practical thing because adding a hopper to the top of the gun with another 5lbs of projectiles would call for a redesign of the coils, loading mechanism so on and so forth. it would probably be best for them to start from the ground up if they were to use spherical projectiles. it would make for a very good lmg type design though.

There's no reason a paintball gun wouldnt launch a steel ball anyways. As long as its the correct size for the barrel, itll go. I thought of using marbles but afraid the marker might chop it to bits.

A paintball gun would probably fire them at a similar speed to the EMG-02 as well.

@@burgerbait probably not, a steel ball the size of a paintball would be dozens of times heavier than a paintball. But idk, that sounds like a job for someone who knows physics

I bet they know, it's just not important yet)

Yeah, something like a stretched diablo pellet should work. And can be cheaply formed on a lathe in a single cut with custom cutting bit.

What I thought they could do is use finned projectiles and have rails on the barrel that input a rotation onto the projectile, you could still use improvised ammo, but actual ammo could be stabilized

This would probably work for higher speeds, but at 200 ft/s, I’m not sure you could get any substantial spin into the projectile.

or steel ball bearings and a "hop up"

I think that's a car audio capacitor, they're pretty cheap and easy to find too

@@shivdag It is. probably 63000uf.

You can buy them off Digikey.

@@kriswingert1662 from the size of it i guess is more than 100000uf

Or build one

I couldn’t agree more. I work with those things often. It should have a blast exhaust port to prevent a pipe bomb situation, large capacitors have a overpressure port usually. But if it’s enclosed it won’t be good.

Agreed. But the software could monitor the capacitor and calculate its ESR, then warn the user and disable charging if it gets too high. It won't catch all catastrophes, but that is the usual indicator of a failing cap.

In fact it comes with a five-year guarantee that if the capacitor fails they'll send you a new one free of charge, *and* they'll also send a team to help find your head ! 😁

@@Kevin-mx1vi what’s left of it anyway

Reminds me of those self contained reloading muskets he showcased before, which you revolved a lever to reload the powder and the shot, but had all the gunpowder stored in the stock, so if it wasn’t absolutely perfectly machined it would basically explode