Speed kills...

[jrandom]

... particularly when it's an electromagnetic railgun projectile moving toward you at 8300fps.

Now *this* is the kind of stuff our Navy needs to get all the Quake-playing teenagers signing up as weapons engineers.

http://www.battelle.org/navy/railguns.pdf

[vifferman]

Any word on a smaller version for fitting to bikes? Be handy for dealing to braindead car drivers. :2guns:
Oh... but then I'd need a decent alternator instead of the wussy 280W thing I've got now...

[Motoracer]

Any word on a smaller version for fitting to bikes? Be hady for dealing to braindead car drivers. :2guns:
Oh... but then I'd need a decent alternator instead of the wussy 280W thing I've got now...

A good substitute for that would be getting a nice set of airhorns fitted on your bike. Its a lot of good fun when you get to use em for the right cause. :rolleyes:

[Wenier]

hahah vids like this one are funny. Even better is one i got of a taliban guy practice with a 308 or something and it kicked back so hard he fell over

[jrandom]

hahah vids like this one are funny. Even better is one i got of a taliban guy practice with a 308 or something and it kicked back so hard he fell over

Are you sure you have the right thread here?

[Wenier]

yea im sure, its jus i got another one of a railgun different to that one cus it sure as hell werent the navy who used it

[vifferman]

A good substitute for that would be getting a nice set of airhorns fitted on your bike. Its a lot of good fun when you get to use em for the right cause. :rolleyes:
I had the next best thing on my VFR - a pair of loud conventional horns, mounted in each side of the fairing (the normal horn position was occupied by the R/R), and wired through a relay directly to the battery. Loud? My kids used to go, "OW!!! Don't do that, Dad - it hurts!" :rolleyes:

[jrandom]

yea im sure, its jus i got another one of a railgun different to that one cus it sure as hell werent the navy who used it

Right. Except this one wasn't a video, it's a PDF document. But I catch your general 'railgun as starting point' drift. It's always good to see some stream-of-consciousness posting. Things get so boring and linear around here.

[Motoracer]

Things get so boring and linear around here.

You just have to wait for one of Wari's posts :wait:

[Skyryder]

Could be fun to have a rail gun bike. Flash Gordon here I come.

Skyryder

[Milky]

A mate of mine was making a home made railgun - very primitive you must realise - but it used nails, sets of coils and photogates with capacitors discharging at the appropriate time. broke through a few sheets of paper held tight a metre infront of the barrel. Someone had too much time on his hands i think ;)

[riffer]

Check out this railgun:

http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm