Hypersonic railgun - GIF

[Altair]

Hypersonic railgun.




Previously:

Electromagnetic railgun firing - video
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...707#post216428
Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) - video

[BuffaloJohn]

Kinetic energy weapons - I find them fascinating. How that bolt pierced all those plate and kept going.

Then there is the defense against them - that is also fascinating. I wonder what the backstop of this test rig looks like...