"Here at ArcFlash labs, we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet"

@brian0057

2 жыл бұрын

ArcFlash's founder played Portal 2 once and went: "I too wanna be Cave Johnson." And he did.

@elmerjfapp5730

2 жыл бұрын

they did all their science from scratch, no hand holding

@ecarlate

2 жыл бұрын

did they get a cake at the end of testing?

@KIFFIR

2 жыл бұрын

@@brian0057 He made life take the lemons back! Got mad!

@loganblanton843

2 жыл бұрын

So you pass the savings on to others

"Do not stick a fork into the Gauss rifle." -Ian McCollum 2022

@nikola12nis

2 жыл бұрын

"Front toward enemy" vibes

@handlesarekindadumb

2 жыл бұрын

literally 1984

@dcorica79

2 жыл бұрын

Words of wisdom!

@chinesesparrows

2 жыл бұрын

Even if its plastic?

@GreenBlueWalkthrough

2 жыл бұрын

I mean you can... like what is it going to do that a poder gun won't? Which in this design I'd doubt it move much as the coils are so far behind the muzzle.

“Don’t fire this weapon within 50 feet of delicate electronics” And now we’ve just discovered it’s ultimate purpose!

@klowen7778

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, was thinkin' kinda the same thang... as a projectile weapon it still seems like a work in progress. But as a portable EMP Generator, hmmm...(for taking out drones, comm links, missile guidance systems, whatever)?!

@boingboingresearcherph.d.2871

2 жыл бұрын

A HANDHELD EMP!!!

@cosseybomb

2 жыл бұрын

@@klowen7778 already been made anyway

@jlfalwell3

2 жыл бұрын

It didn't seem to upset the camera and i assume they had cell phones in their pockets. Are our basic electronics more hardened that we realize or was that warning just extra careful. I am old enough to remember warnings at diners if they had a microwave that you can't go in with a pacemaker.

@deltatrooper0078

Жыл бұрын

@@klowen7778 this could be used in a disposable missile defence system to scramble enemy missiles

5:56 tp 6:00- that "hollow point" projectile is a 1/2" wedge anchor. So when Ian calls it "Hardware store stuff," he's more accurate than he may have realized.

If an alien ship ever crashes on earth, Ian’s gonna be the first guy to review the weapons found on board

@awesomedude222

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey guys, thanks for tuning into Forgotten Weapons, I'm Ian and this is an Andromeda Arms anti-matter repeater rifle I picked up off that downed cruiser that crashed out back"

@kaiserpanzer548

2 жыл бұрын

@@awesomedude222 bro andromeda arms make some good weapons specially anti-matter powered

@-Zevin-

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaiserpanzer548 I dunno man, the anti-matter stuff is ok, but have you checked out their quantum phased array warp entanglement phasers?

@Paradox_Edge

2 жыл бұрын

I can imagine him crouched above like a dead mutilated alien with a weird alien weapon in its hands and he does a witty little intro before prying the thing out of its hands and beginning to muck around with it, instantly knowing everything there is to know about this weird alien firearm.

@joshuasantiagojr5082

2 жыл бұрын

@@awesomedude222 or if we get around inventing real life Bolter rifles

I love how even in a completely different style of firearm, the main issue is almost ALWAYS the magazine development lol.

@youdontknowwhoiam4349

2 жыл бұрын

Can you explain why aren’t most of them banana with spring or rectangle

@user-me8hc3bs7i

2 жыл бұрын

Normally it’s not getting the rounds from one area of the magazine to the other which a spring easily manages, it’s getting the rounds to stop at the top and then get picked up only during forward motion of the bolt carrier, getting up a feed ramp and then into a chamber without causing the bolt carrier to slow down, hang, or lose enough energy to prevent lockup. All of these things something as simple as surface finish or an angle change of 1-2 degrees is enough to take a non functioning gun to completely reliable and vice-versa.

@MarvinCZ

2 жыл бұрын

It's not just a question of "a rectangle or a banana", it needs to be a precise shape to fit the geometry of the rounds it will to hold.

@mpk6664

2 жыл бұрын

@@youdontknowwhoiam4349 Mags are banana'd due to some cartridges having a slight taper. I.e. the bottom of the case is often wider than the top. There is no use of a banana mag here due to having the slugs be the same diameter.

@ginomanshit2365

2 жыл бұрын

should of just used old sten magazines

It sounds more like a crossbow than a firearm. Super cool and will be crazy to see where this ends up in a couple decades.

@kylethewolf

10 ай бұрын

IT IS a crossbow, magnetic crossbow is a cool and accurate name for these weapons

@DecalageChope

6 ай бұрын

Yes, in fact, its projectiles have the speed of a crossbow bolt.

@vladpadowicz5946

3 ай бұрын

It's clearly not a "fire"-arm since there's no explosion with fire to propel the projectile

@spvillano

3 ай бұрын

@@vladpadowicz5946 in many states, it'd not qualify at all as a firearm. They'd fall back to "prohibited offensive weapon" or something similar, even if it's not explicitly prohibited and watch the court likely reject their charges - still costed you an attorney's fees.

@vladpadowicz5946

3 ай бұрын

@spvillano No where in the world does it qualify as a firearm for the reason I already mentioned

It’s weird to think we live in a world where Gauss guns are actually real.

@CyberSpiderPrime

8 ай бұрын

Scarier still is when they figure out how to make personal rail gun rifles - use a Gauss coil to inject the carrier at speed into a charged rail system; for now it's a big power and construction material issue. Anyone know where to get a Vacuum space power extraction core?

@Anonymous-73

7 ай бұрын

@@user-ts1kj1te2j the future is now old man

@IvanBaturaChannel

5 ай бұрын

They were real for a long time. I built one a few years ago. There's just not much use for them currently to be produced commercially.

@skypiratecaptain

4 ай бұрын

@@CyberSpiderPrimegauss implies a permanent magnet. Any electromagnetic coil is a coil gun.

@CyberSpiderPrime

4 ай бұрын

@@skypiratecaptain Gauss refers to any magnetic flux field, permanent and temporary. Creating one electrically just gives greater control of the field parameters. The term also differentiates the method used from a Rail Gun which uses the Lorenz force to electro-magnetically manipulate an object's motion (Gauss surrounds the target object, Lorenz passes through an armature which can be the target object or carries it). Not all coils are guns - a coil gun is one that is used to pull and release an object in order to propel it. Some coils pull and hold (usually called a solenoid and used for various purposes like relays, car starters, washing machine valves) and usually use a spring (which is another form of a coil) to reset. Still others are used to create or receive magnetic information (radio tuning coil, metal detectors have both a sending and receiving coil) or used for induction to change electrical parameters (transformers) or generate heat (induction metal heating). A coil is simply a length of material (metal, string, plastic, wood, etc.) wound up, how it's used defines its purpose (source material, structural support, electrical component, etc.). Therefore, Gauss Coil Gun refers to a specific use of an electrically charged wire coil (Coil) used to create a controlled magnetic field (Gauss flux field) for the purpose of attracting and expelling a magnetically affected object (the ammo for the Gun) in a straight line (may have multiple stages for greater acceleration). Particle Accelerators are, in simplest terms, multi-stage Gauss Coil Guns that shoot their atomic or subatomic ammo in magnetically bent circles (single or multiple streams, in one or two directions, simultaneously). The Coils both accelerate and bend the projectile path.

This is the musket of the Gauss Rifle technology, just remember this video 10-20 years from now

@jesuszamora6949

2 жыл бұрын

Just about. While I'm not sure we'll ever get to the point where ammo for this thing is quite as cheap as current ammo (You can get 20 round of 5.56 for like $12), but I can definitely see these evolving into some BADASS sniper weapons.

@Presbiter

2 жыл бұрын

@@jesuszamora6949 The ammo for a gauss rifle is basically just a steel rod sawed in small bits...as soon as there is demand for gauss ammo you will see prices way below what 5.56 costs

@spiralviper8158

2 жыл бұрын

@@jesuszamora6949 i'll just go play Crysis and use the Gauss rifle in that ;)

@johnk6757

2 жыл бұрын

@@Presbiter Ammo cost would be in the degradation of the power cells. Plus a few pennies for the slug and electricity.

@Presbiter

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnk6757 Thats maintenance cost...like any other equipment that uses power cells like night vision googles

Never thought I'd live to see the day when I heard "do not stick a fork into the gauss rifle" being offered as real and legitimate firearm safety advice

@randomidiot8142

2 жыл бұрын

It's not a firearm though. It's an energy conversion device.

@moonrazk

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomidiot8142 How is a firearm also not an energy conversion device? I say we call those electroarms.

@brianmccarthy5557

2 жыл бұрын

All firearms are energy conversion devices. The gunpowder devices transfer chemical energy. This is electromagnetic.

@AHungryHunky

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomidiot8142 I believe I heard the distant collective screeching of a thousand confused ATF agents

@danebrewer10

2 жыл бұрын

Surely anything you can fit down the "barrel" you should be able to shoot 😄, if it's possible, someone will😆

"Do not stick a fork into the gauss rifle!" Great advice and another great video as usual!

@carso1500

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like a like straight from a science fiction book kind of crazy that it can be used in real life completly unironically

@JorgetePanete

2 жыл бұрын

Do not look directly inside the Portal Gun

A gun creating a significant EMP every time it’s fired is something I very much wish I had in MW2

2022: "The long projectile is about as long as a .308 case" 2032: “We fire the whole bullet, that's 65% more bullet per bullet”

@10eightyeight

2 жыл бұрын

Love the portal reference I was thinking the same thing lmao

@carlosdomenech5347

2 жыл бұрын

JJ Simmons collab when?

@allangibson2408

2 жыл бұрын

The point is that it could fire a 308… (the entire round down range…)

@frompaintopower9688

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome reference! Thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite games!

@kentvesser9484

2 жыл бұрын

@@allangibson2408 Screw that, I want to shoot a slug made of highly unstable fissile material such as Californium at sufficient velocity to go critical mass on impact...lol. Can't wait to see the ATF ruling on that one.

Ian casually dropping the coolest names in weapons tech astounds me "Coil gun" "Gauss Rifle" "Gauss CANNON" "MASS DRIVER"

@Zdkazz

2 жыл бұрын

I personally like the halo name a M.A.C. Or a mass acceleration canon

@devastater97

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zdkazz Magnetic Accelerator Cannon*

@Zdkazz

2 жыл бұрын

@@devastater97 ah, my bad, been a few years since I read a halo novel thanks for that

@robertunderdunkterwilliger2290

2 жыл бұрын

Magnetic musket

@Polivart

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertunderdunkterwilliger2290 sci-fi blunderbuss

One of the surprising things about this is how quiet it is. After years of Fallout 4’s Gauss Rifle, hearing how silent the magnets actually are is not what I expected.

@KaiBrunk125

6 ай бұрын

Same, especially after playing Halo 3 lol. That Gauss cannon was so loud

@spartanwar1185

6 ай бұрын

I imagine it'd probably get louder once they start accelerating slugs up to break the sound barrier But i'm surprised it makes any sound at all, the plastic-ey sliding/clicking what ever is interesting to me

@LazzyVamples

4 ай бұрын

Prolly because those guns are firing more than 200 times faster at least.

@user-zv3iy4zo4p

4 ай бұрын

and this is precisely why, it will never catch on or become popular, irl

@lordswaine5238

4 ай бұрын

Now go listen to the Navy's railgun... that's closer to the sci-fi speed.

11:20 - Given that the projectile isn't touching the walls of the barrel, the smoothboreness might not degrade the accuracy nearly as much as with a chemical firearm (where you get the ball or whatnot bouncing from side to side as it goes down the barrel), so a laser sight would probably make more sense for a coilgun than for a musket.

@BeKindToBirds

Жыл бұрын

Except it clearly is hitting the barrel a lot. The alignment isn't perfect and in the slow motion you can see the projectile bouncing down the barrel. The manufacturing isn't good enough to float the round perfectly.

@SpaceNerd117

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if fins on the projectile with protruding guide tracks on the inside of the barrel might help(and also give it a rifling effect). The neat thing with EM guns is because the barrel doesn't need to hold up to high pressure, some fancier things can be done with them.

@scottgalbraith7461

Жыл бұрын

I think with some tinkering, the projectile could be made to spin magnetically.

@peaksingularity3032

11 ай бұрын

@@BeKindToBirds it's barely accelerated while in that transparent tube though, the real acceleration comes later, and IIRC the fields also align the projectile (again) ?

Welcome to Forgotten Weapons, this is a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.

@ScottTheImpaler

2 жыл бұрын

First thing that popped into my mind too!

@jamesricker3997

2 жыл бұрын

The T-800 wouldn't have asked for that weapon if it did not exist A phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range was probably in the testing phase

@cootersnooter3059

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, the good ol' Westinghouse

@andreasu.3546

2 жыл бұрын

You know your weapons, buddy!

@williambarr7408

2 жыл бұрын

"...Hey it's just what you see pal.."

If you'd've told me years ago that I'd be watching Forgotten Weapons review a gauss rifle in the future I'd say something along the lines of "I wish"

@nicksummers8320

2 жыл бұрын

I'd have been like "Oh, you mean on April 1st right?"

@nahnahahaah6265

2 жыл бұрын

But not a rifle. So a Gauss musket, I guess?

@WingMaster562

2 жыл бұрын

What's interesting is that this one, ArcFlashLabs' version, has been in development for a long time and I remember seeing their youtube channel around 2010. Meaning that it was possible even at the early days of Forgotten Weapons.

@OldieBugger

2 жыл бұрын

@@WingMaster562 I'd guess the theory was ready by then, but it took them 11-ish years to make it portable. Which is no small task!

@matthiuskoenig3378

2 жыл бұрын

*Gauz harquebus, for it to be a musket it needs to be able to penatrate munitions grade body armour at the very least.

The powerful EM pulses concern me, and that thing must be tough to maintain...but my God, it's a GAUSS RIFLE. I didn't think that I'd see something like this outside of Battletech. I can't wait for the designers to refine the technology into something even more effective.

@KoflerDavid

2 жыл бұрын

Maintenance will be different for sure. There is no explosion hazard or powder residues to deal with, but the electronics will be a nightmare to maintain for sure. It probably won't survive Garand Thumb's muddy or freezing rifle test just yet. But I can totally see it becoming attractive for situation where utmost silence is important and field maintainability is not a concern, like police sniper or SWAT operations.

@kekistanimememan170

Жыл бұрын

@@KoflerDavid battery’s explode.

@kekistanimememan170

Жыл бұрын

@@KoflerDavid also look at coil gun shooting projectiles going at real speeds the noise is comparable to a firearms and the muzzle flash is worse.

@Matter_not

Жыл бұрын

@@kekistanimememan170 Removable rechargeable lithium iron or ion batteries don’t “explode” in the course of normal operation. Pretty stable consumer safe technology.

@zygbeee8563

Жыл бұрын

@@kekistanimememan170 thats what railguns do not coilguns.

I'm amused at the thought of, like some electric vehicles, production incorporating some artificial sound to give the firing experience "a better feel", haha! We're so used to the sensory feedback of traditional firearms that I'm gonna need that powerful scifi charge up and discharge sound! 🤠

@beerrox711

Жыл бұрын

The film camera flash charge sound would be perfect for this

@Statusinator

Жыл бұрын

The next model will have a text-to-speech voice saying "Bang" every time you pull the trigger.

I work at an electronics recycling facility. When I learned about this gun I asked the question if we’d be allowed to recycle it, one of my coworkers said if someone does come in with one we’re hanging it on the wall.

@falloutfart9917

Жыл бұрын

I’d have a raffle for who can take it home

@Anonymous-73

Жыл бұрын

That’s kinda a badass thing to have on a wall ngl

@adamrules01

Жыл бұрын

Imagine this technology and you just go and recycle it. Like the barbarians sack of Rome and the burning of the great library of Alexandria.

The fact that the screen says "FIRE!" as it fires is actually pretty adorable and I hope all future gauss weapons keep that feature.

@thewingedhussar4188

2 жыл бұрын

What gets me is how quite the thing is. All i hear is just a click. I can just imagine where we be in 10 years. Hell that gun alone would have been scifi when I was a kid.

@nicholaspatton5590

2 жыл бұрын

The perfect assassin’s weapon

@honchoryanc

2 жыл бұрын

Needs to flash red

@ninjaeddy1717

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholaspatton5590 a little hard to conceal though. I don’t think I can appendix carry that thing!

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

2 жыл бұрын

@@thewingedhussar4188 It's a subsonic projectile and there is no explosion. Obviously it's going to be much quieter than a gun. Though it will make a lot of sound once it goes supersonic.

"Hey guys, thank you for tuning in to this episode of Forgotten Weapons. Here today, I have with me the arm I dismantled from a Metal Gear..."

@csam9167

2 ай бұрын

"A metal Gear ?"

@georgesears2916

Ай бұрын

METAL GEAR!?

@csam9167

Ай бұрын

@@georgesears2916 hey its the boss to surpass big boss itself ! Solid Snake !

100 years from now you see one of these in a museum in the same sort of symbology as the earliest cartridge loading gun, something no one really picked up because it was just ahead of itself.

“Do not fire when the weapon is too hot.” *solemn nodding from years of BattleTech and MechWarrior*

@JeffTheBunnySlayer

2 жыл бұрын

Just wait ‘till we start developing double heat sinks

@idoobbberz_tv6676

2 жыл бұрын

Double barrel gauss rifle

@thomasneal9291

2 жыл бұрын

@@idoobbberz_tv6676 rotary gauss. already in BTA.

@Kyzrath

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasneal9291 Hyper Assault Gauss. In Kerensky's Name.

@Menuki

2 жыл бұрын

You act like the engineers on this project never heard of the game

Keep in mind that the "muzzle energy" of a crossbow bolt is also miniscule compared to a proper firearm, but it can absolutely injure or kill you.

@SBBurzmali

2 жыл бұрын

The muzzle energy of a medieval crossbow bolt is somewhere around a pistol fired .22LR and this coil gun is somewhere around an air gun round. On top of that the geometry of a crossbow bolt helps to do the killing, but deviating from a cylinder shaped slug is quickly going to cost this coil gun muzzle velocity.

@robert7984

2 жыл бұрын

@@SBBurzmali Modern Air-guns can shoot WELL above this. Over 1500fpe. I own several that do over 500FPE.

@SBBurzmali

2 жыл бұрын

@@robert7984 Of course, I was referring the the commonly available models, you can make a .22LR round with as much umph as a 9mm or more if you are willing to risk blowing your face off.

@dryaldibread2327

2 жыл бұрын

@@robert7984 kinetic energy is calculated, based on mass an velocity. Ur stupid airgun might shoot a lot faster, but your bullets are a lot lighter to.

@monarchco

2 жыл бұрын

@@SBBurzmali why? Slapping a non-ferrous cap on that slug wouldn't impact muzzle velocity.

I can’t imagine how crazy it will be when this thing is actually practical. It looks extremely unsatisfying to shoot. It’s amazing how much impact the lack of sound has on the intimidation factor of a firearm. VERY COOL VIDEO

Its honestly more unbelievable that the first that I hear about s functional infantry scale GAUSS CANNON is on this KZread channel, than such a weapon existing in the first place

This weapon is also doing something else very interesting. It's demonstrating the ridiculous amount of energy stored in just a few grams of gunpowder to get a projectile moving at the velocities that it does in such a short distance.

@GrasshopperKelly

2 жыл бұрын

Such is the power in a few million atoms

@anderssorenson9998

2 жыл бұрын

It's also the same with electric cars the energy density of a battery is nowhere near that of petrol or diesel. and short of changing the laws of physics to be accommodating, never will.

@PinkFlyingNarwhal

2 жыл бұрын

@@Smitty.Bacall Nobody is arguing otherwise. It's an unfortunate reality and a big part of why we're not already switched off of fossil fuels.

@irdmoose

2 жыл бұрын

@@Smitty.Bacall The good news is that if we make the planet unfriendly to ourselves, we cease to exist, and the planet eventually heals, allowing the circle of life to begin again. It happened before, and it will happen again because eco freaks want to push environmentally destructive technologies like wind and certain kinds of solar power while running like scared children from actually clean and truly renewable resources like nuclear. Funny how that works.

@bort6414

2 жыл бұрын

@@Smitty.Bacall Global starvation makes a planet far less hospitable to complex life forms. Pollution is bad. Nobody should disagree. But no matter how you swing it, outside the privileged white collar workers who drive 15m to work a day, fossil fuels are desperately needed and all the global outages and supply problems we've seen are just a taste of what is to come if we refuse *actual* green strategies like nuclear and continue to demonize ICE's.

Also I can imagine future drill sergeants yelling "for the love of god do not stick a fork in to the gauss rifle!" during firearms training.

@MrJstorm4

2 жыл бұрын

Metal forks are entirely banned at training bases

@madmanthepope6448

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine firing crayons out of it lol

@boyikr

2 жыл бұрын

@jstorm 14 that is 100% not true, at least for army.

@Fadaar

2 жыл бұрын

@@madmanthepope6448 dont give the marines any ideas

@daffyduck9562

2 жыл бұрын

Next thing you know they’ve renamed FIREARMS training to just ARMS training

I always imagined Gauss rifle tech would be most practical when incorporated as a way to enhance conventional firearms. You’d still use traditional cartridges with powder loads but you could get much higher more energy by adding a coil to further accelerate the projectile. Best of both worlds

@ElMiKy75

8 ай бұрын

It would be perfect, since GAUSS rifles could also have disadvantages and firearms can be improved and fitted with more improvements, what do you think?

@epicdoggo4925

8 ай бұрын

Yeah you try and get the best of both worlds.

@ElMiKy75

8 ай бұрын

@@epicdoggo4925 I think it would be better, but do you think GAUSS would be better than firearms but improved in the future?

@Asgaardiangatekeeper

2 ай бұрын

Im wondering if there would be a way to reverse that process. Have the powdercharge fire off, after the round reaches full velocity from the magnetic propulsion. Im just thinking that the magnets would do more to catch the bullet than aid it along.

something you NEED to be aware of: capacitors hold power all on their own. this weapon could fire with the battery completely removed. particularly important when dealing with misfires, as a capacitor discharge could throw a "stuck" slug.

@Leto_0

4 ай бұрын

15:47 Sounds like they dump the energy pretty quickly. Either way, I'm sure this is something the manufacturers have considered

Hey guys, thank you for tuning into this episode of Forgotten Weapons, today we’ll be looking at the BFG 9000, a very unique weapon for the channel, but there are some interesting design quirks you don’t see in a lot of guns…

@snowydayssduhh9771

2 жыл бұрын

"Casually test fires it at demons" ;)) 🤣

@TheBlackAshTree

2 жыл бұрын

decino could tell you how it works.

@MattDonafrio

2 жыл бұрын

***proceeds to blow a hole in Mars***

@vmax_

2 жыл бұрын

And we'll look into that in a moment. But first I would like to introduce our special guest...

@richardbottom9843

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlackAshTree man of culture

The scariest thing about this weapon is how quiet it is. Imagine a battle where you don't hear gunshots, just screams.

@RyanTosh

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose at some point in the future these might be powerful enough to accelerate stuff to the speed of sound.

@concernedliberal4453

2 жыл бұрын

I almost spit red wine out of my nostrils at that comment

@kyuuneho

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanTosh probably gonna happen sooner than we think

@LostShipMate

2 жыл бұрын

Just imagine all you hear is the screams and the rampant KZread Sex bots.

@DevadevamJagannatham

2 жыл бұрын

If it advances to the level where it can shoot any projectile above subsonic levels, there'll be almost the same amount of noise as a rifle with a good suppressor.

This is absolutely incredible. I honestly did not imagine I could see this kind of thing working in my lifetime.

@mkzhero

Жыл бұрын

... Do you live under a rock? You could build those (of the same power) 15, 20, and even MORE years ago! Literally nothing in this is amazing, innovative or impressive. The patent for those is from friggign 1904! The guy who made them, with that OLD ASS TECH managed to accelerate a half kilo projectile to 50 m/s too, just 20 m/s less than this too! What i'm trying to say is, this thing's a useless toy that i don't get your excitement over.

@DaddiDrako

4 ай бұрын

@@mkzheroyou couldn’t make the amount of power in the size of device 15-20 years ago 5-7 Tesla is insane for a handheld rifle id like to see u make something as cool as this since you’re so smart and it’s so easy

Even though it's in its infancy, this is still an amazing piece of technology. This technology is what our grandchildren may be fighting wars with.

@Clownk1ller

11 ай бұрын

We shouldn't want that

@averyplaysguitar

4 ай бұрын

I would hope not

@ponponpatapon9670

Ай бұрын

let's just hope that by the time this technology is well-developed, we won't be sending young men and women to their untimely death in warfare

This XCOM play-through is going pretty well, we’ve unlocked magnetic weapons.

@knightartorias4487

2 жыл бұрын

Magnetic Weapons available from the start of the game? I've heard of playing on easy, but damn. And we already have Arc Throwers (tazers).

@kirbyis4ever

2 жыл бұрын

"Here we have several magnetic weapons - generously donated for review by the XCOM and Xenonauts programs - ergonomics on the alien plasma weapons aren't so great, but we have these bad boys."

@redmist6630

2 жыл бұрын

mf keeps it on em

@theodorrodriguez1800

2 жыл бұрын

I just happened to buy that on steam today lol

@Karatys

2 жыл бұрын

smh, this must be his first playthrough for not rushing sonic weaponry first. Lobstermen are going to fuck us up.

Love that the "hollow point" is literally a drop-in anchor for bolting into concrete

@anarchyandempires5452

2 жыл бұрын

Got to hunt them magical golems some how...

@randomidiot8142

2 жыл бұрын

It came off the shelf in the same aisle as the dowel pin and ball bearings. They went to a hardware store with a magnet.

@hollowscarf

2 жыл бұрын

@MINI DIVA Came for rail guns, not to rail girls. Spam somewhere else.

@sethtate2079

2 жыл бұрын

@@hollowscarf great comeback. I'm so tired of those spammer girls.

@sprky777

2 жыл бұрын

With the low velocity and high weight of the gauss gun the recoil appears minimal

"Do not stick a fork into the Gauss rifle" is something Sgt. Johnson would say

These Gauss rifles are the future of warfare. They eliminate the need for gunpowder and casings, which will eventually result in magazines with immense capacities, as well as being able to carry more of those magazines. The bullets themselves will be able to be customized with everything from armour piercing, incendiary, explosive etc. Obviously over time the rifles will become smaller and lighter but much more powerful and adaptable to suit any kind of combat. I'm genuinely loving Gauss and Railgun tech, it's so exciting. ( I know they are instruments of death...)

@Clownk1ller

11 ай бұрын

War, war never changes

@erikengheim1106

11 ай бұрын

I thought your remarks were really interesting. Could you clarify why it is easier to customize bullets more with these guns than with traditional guns? Can't you make bullets with exactly the same kinds of shapes for traditional bullets? What hinders creative designs on todays casings.

@ChillCat665

9 ай бұрын

They are instruments of AWESOME

@DecalageChope

6 ай бұрын

And all Gauss rifles are silent, too. This could be a game-changer.

@remobothic

5 ай бұрын

Not until battery technology makes serious advancements, both in terms of the amount of power they can store and in terms of how quickly they can be recharged or discharged.

"Here at arcflash labs we belive in delivering the best customer experience - that's why our gun fires the entire cartridge! That's 300% more bullet per bullet!"

@jfs1291

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like something you would hear in a Borderlands weapon manufacturer advertisement

@andrewlee-do3rf

2 жыл бұрын

@Aaron Cutting Lol. Nice "Portal" game (Easter egg) reference XD

@seantrevathan3041

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfs1291 "Let's go ahead and get this out of the way: Most of my merchandise was taken from the hands of dead adventurers."

@gracekowalski1175

2 жыл бұрын

Aperture science hah

@SMM_NAA

2 жыл бұрын

@@jfs1291 lmao very accurate 😂

The laser flashing faster then going to solid when it's fully charged is just to let the player know when the boss is about to take a shot.

@dadurkey8287

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the spartan laser from Halo

i absolutely love the captions, man. top notch captions! :)

Since it's Smooth Bore making the Projectiles more Aerodynamic would be a big improvement,great video and Archflash has made a great first step toward a Gauss Gun.

I love how the digital display on the back says "Fire!" with an exclamation mark. This thing is straight out of a video game and I love it.

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

Instantly made me think of my man-portable sentry bot ruiner in Fallout 4 :D

@deezeed2817

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds of that demolition man gun

I am having a hard time realizing that this riffle actually exist outside of fallout

@nickmorado6094

2 жыл бұрын

Add another set of coils, and it’ll look more like the real deal than it already does

@roythegracious

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me- me too. I play Fallout 4 and new vegas religously, but I already told my old lady Im getting one, Ill make videos on how it is to shoot hopefully soon. Lmao

@xfydr4764

2 жыл бұрын

i know the name from half life

@eroslove8956

2 жыл бұрын

@@roythegracious heck yeah

@jamesianhutchison1165

2 жыл бұрын

I'm having a hard time not seeing how accurate their design was. A lot of Fallout guns are just absolute nonsense but they really nailed the fundamentals with their Gauss Gun.

When forgotten weapons goes a little sci-fi

Yellow bar amkes sense in a situation where you need to fire even with the risk as a "it might explode", and the red bar as a "it will explode"

Finally, a unique weapon that isn’t just a reskin of another weapon. Although, the physical damage is pretty mid, the energy damage makes up for it, especially against robotic foes and metal-armored raiders.

@a3nofficial25

2 жыл бұрын

Buff against synths with a 100% critical chance lmfao

@prod.royalsg1630

2 жыл бұрын

@@a3nofficial25 Every shot a critical?

@jeremysaklad6703

2 жыл бұрын

On the other hand, it explodes for 20 points of damage if it receives a critical hit.

@prod.royalsg1630

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeremysaklad6703 Shit, I never even saw that. It’s one of those items where the item card doesn’t read all the abilities so you have to physically test it out first. Jesus Christ, it’s Borderlands’ legendaries all over again.

@nataliesalcido6735

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I prefer the ozone smell that comes from a plasma rifle

Please Ian, we all know the 3 second “charge” is a cooldown for balance purposes, this would be way too OP otherwise

having worked in automation where we use these kinds of components, that gun is serious.

It is amusing how such a futuristic weapon sounds like a simple catapult. Awesome weapon, and an amazing demonstration!

Only now, seeing this gun, I could notice how important the 3d printer invention was for R&D. Even more so for small teams.

@rskat501

2 жыл бұрын

Custom machined plastic injection molds cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per PART. This thing is assembled from multiple parts. Could cost upwards of multi million dollars to proto type this thing with injection molding alone. 3D printing is absolutely critical for proto typing phases, especially for start up companies with not much capital to invest.

@TyrDrum

2 жыл бұрын

What I read somewhere is that 3d printing allows for insanely fast, rapid prototyping. Basically, they can iterate over a design multiple times very quickly and very cheaply.

@brertt8350

2 жыл бұрын

@@rskat501 arent injection molds usually reserved for mass production? i always thought singular prototypes were done with resin, or cnc'd?

@Bumblbroh

2 жыл бұрын

@@rskat501 yes and as a former machinist i gotta say they have to be shipped from overseas sometimes which can take a while as well especially if you needed to adjust and change where things were, not to mention the injection mold machines are ginormous and cost astronomical prices

@rskat501

2 жыл бұрын

@@brertt8350 yes, they're used for mass production. I was just stating my experience since I work in the industry. I'm not quite familiar with previous forms of proto typing, but rough CNC models would definitely be better than molding. Even then, that's still expensive and some projects would have been scrapped due to cost. Although it's no longer necessary since now 3D printing is far superior than CNC(for prototyping at least).

Im petitioning the name "bolt" for mass accelerator projectiles. It has history with crossbow bolts, connects to the electric nature of these weapons, and portrays their more weighty nature compared to bullets.

@AJasonNorthrup

2 жыл бұрын

Competing with 40k gyrojets for that moniker

@DanielG77

2 жыл бұрын

Solid artillery rounds fired by rifled cannons during the American Civil War were also called bolts.

@ryans756

2 жыл бұрын

Harrumph!

@jo.v-c

2 жыл бұрын

Seconded.

@russiannpcbot6408

2 жыл бұрын

It's because you want to call it a Bolter, isn't it?

What really struck me was how quiet it was. Sci-Fi lead me to believe it was going to make a massive bang louder than a gun when fired. Instead we get a quiet squealing noise followed by the sound of a crossbow. Terrifying.

That is amazing and can see a future in some very niche applications, when accuracy and punching power is sorted out. Any steel tube could go in that thing, got legs!

I will say, this has got to be the first gun I've ever seen that has a USB port on it.

@palmespilates1294

2 жыл бұрын

it better be usb c cause you don't want to 50/50 it on the field.

@edmondgreen7970

2 жыл бұрын

@@palmespilates1294 but that's what makes it fun

@Lukyan

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the MP-155 Altima has a USB port for its camera.

@kissmekatut

2 жыл бұрын

@@palmespilates1294 you mean 50/50/50

@realburglazofficial2613

2 жыл бұрын

Serge voice: “AQUEL! AQUEL FOLEEEE!”

Getting closer to the Needler video

@Tac380

Жыл бұрын

Plasma rifle

I would love to see a follow up video, on how much they advanced it so far. ❤

The fact that it is almost completely silent and has little to no recoil is also really neat.

Imagine about a century later, and Ian's great grandson is talking about how this was an ambitious gun that had some promise but ended up being a novelty, or remarking at how advance it was for the time. Basically ending up like half the guns actually covered on Forgotten Weapons

@F14thunderhawk

2 жыл бұрын

why not both?

@brianmccarthy5557

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised at all considering Ian himself is the son of a firearms exoert. I have no idea how far back this goes in his family but lots of us Highland Scots and Irish pass down family traditions for many generations, not unlike the Japanese.

@kentvesser9484

2 жыл бұрын

Or digitized consciousness Ian using his mind-linked robot to have a range day with his man portable plasma gun as magnetic rifles that use metal slugs are so last century when all the cool kids now use high energy plasma created in a magnetic field before it is released and accelerated magnetically, so it hits with hypervelocity kinetic and thermal effects.

@sevenproxies4255

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I don't think that will happen. Rail guns and gauss guns are some of the more promising "sci-fi weapon" technologies at this time. Especially since there is a great industrial demand on the world market in general for more advanced batteries and ways to manipulate electrical currents (on account of the electric car industry). Laser guns are much much further into the future, since the power demands for direct energy weapons are that much higher to ever be of practical use. And then there's plasma weapons being a common sci-fi trope, but also presents a whole slew of other problems like being able to generate plasma hot enough to cause lethal damage and also finding means to project it in a desired direction. So out of these three, gauss guns and rail guns are definitely the most viable.

@nicholassternon5857

2 жыл бұрын

@@sevenproxies4255 What makes it more effective than contemporary firearms?

What you didn't mention is that you need an energy weapons skill level of 75 and a strength of 6 to use it effectively.

@randomidiot8142

2 жыл бұрын

And high science and intelligence, maybe perception.

@jayhom5385

2 жыл бұрын

pfft. Like always a high CHA and no one needs to know you're actually empty.

@kellymouton7242

2 жыл бұрын

@@jayhom5385 did I fire 9 dowels, or 10? Well punk, do you feel lucky?

@Kaiserland111

2 жыл бұрын

I love the Fallout games, so thanks for the reference.

@napatora

2 жыл бұрын

this is featured in this month's Future Weapons Today

Thank you for this demonstration of the Gauss Gun.

In the future we will have the AFL-V20K Thor... It will have a holographic sight with an integrated rangefinder, a detachable cooling sink, a level of EMProtection, and several types of factory-fit Bolts. Such as the basic Bolt, the Guide-Corrected Bolt, Splinterheads, Chemloads, and my personal favorite : Delayed Explosion-Applied Detonator (DEAD) Bolt.

To put this perspective: the GR-1 is like the musket (or even earlier) of gauss/coil guns, there's so much more to be done for it to rival modern-day weapons, but so did the early firearms compared to bows and crossbows of their time.

@dangerszewski9816

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good comparison for multiple reasons-- the bulk of the hard part going from cannon to man-portable firearm was in the size reduction, increasing the power, reliability and fire rate were fairly small refinements to the overall design. Taking this thing from something that weighs 500 pounds with 250 pounds of capacitor bank and causes the lights to flicker when you start charging it to something you can hold in your hand and fire repeatedly from a battery is the bulk of the really hard work. Going from that to a practical weapon is a comparatively small leap. It's already a theoretically lethal weapon, doubling the output power is a comparatively small refinement and would put this in the power range of a .38 S&W, a round that is indisputably capable of killing, if a little weak for the modern day. A 5-fold increase would put it in the range of an intermediate cartridge like 5.7mm

@mobiuscoreindustries

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, just like a musket its about a dozen technical innovations away from reaching its optimal form, but if anything it has one massive advantage: logistics. A gauss, unlike a normal firearm, pretty much does not care what you feed into it as long as it fits the barrel and is made of metal. That is an incredibly cheap bullet to make. Of course, you aren't going to feed it scrap metal for fun, but what you can is have a bucket-load of metal slugs that are immensely easy to carry around and store. They can't get damaged easily, there isn't gunpowder that can get wet. Hell there isn't cases to deal with, and unlike caseless ammo you don't have to deal with a fragile casing or overheating problems. That means that your requirements to produce and carry ammo are drastically lowered. And while making the firearm is harder, making the bullets for it becomes essentially workshop level trivial. Very much unusable in their current form BUT the progress in battery spurred by electric vehicles and smartphones is going to push the tech forward at great speeds.

@jackmcslay

2 жыл бұрын

@@dangerszewski9816 And I already imagine what would be the solution: A composite battery. There is a way to increase the current output of batteries is by putting them in parallel - the amount of current the batteries can support increases to the same degree to the amount of batteries you put in parallel, but for this application that means hundreds of batteries and the charger for those bateries would be challenging too, meaning they would have ho develop small batteries that you can build a parallel battery bank, and they have to be made with a good amount of precision as a voltage differential between batteries can generate unwanted current between them. As such, if the battery already outputs a high enough current you don't need a capacitor bank

@suursuits7637

2 жыл бұрын

@@mobiuscoreindustries It does need to be ferromagnetic, but you can pretty much just take a steel rod, cut it down to size, and then do whatever with it. Sharpen the tip for better aerodynamics and penetration, hollow it out and put all sorts of fun things, like high explosives, in it, as long as the coils can magnetically attract the projectile, the possibilities are nearly limitless.

@mobiuscoreindustries

2 жыл бұрын

@@suursuits7637 One thing I did think about is how the "propulsion" method scales a lot better with projectile mass. On top of that, the acceleration is a lot more drawn out and gradual compared to the thousands of G's worth of acceleration of gunpowder. So such a gun system would work wonders with a fin stabilized smart ammo or even just shoving a ton of explosives in it.

Quite a fascinating look at the infancy of a new type of weapon. It's bulky and impractical, but the fact that they have gotten the concept of a gauss weapon to the level of commercial functionality is still impressive.

@kentvesser9484

2 жыл бұрын

It's a 13th century hand cannon. Looks cool and makes all the other kids at the real renaissance fair want one too, but needs a lot of R&D to be a practical military, defensive, or hunting weapon. Still, you have to start somewhere.

@1stCallipostle

2 жыл бұрын

@@kentvesser9484 Technological advancement tends to be a lot faster now than it was then Maybe instead of 300 years to get it right this time it'll only take 10% of that time

@michaelglinski3809

2 жыл бұрын

I had a couple initial "That was it?" impressions, then I remembered that somehow, somebody managed to make ALL that tech man-portable, and mostly unobtrusive as well, and I swung right back around to very impressed.

@Dajokerboy101

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised Biden didn't gift wrap this and leave it overseas as well

@ResidentWeevil2077

2 жыл бұрын

I think if the projectiles were smaller and lighter, and the coils wrapped around the barrel in order to provide spin, I think Gauss guns have the potential to be highly accurate and practically recoilless weapons.

My God, it's awesome! Normally, I like the parts encased, but I like the bare design of this one.

It's distance cousin is the Railgun as both of which use magnetism to launch their Projectile.

@survivalinthezombieapocaly2142

Жыл бұрын

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“Do not stick a fork into the gauss rifle” is a quote I was never expecting to hear from Ian.

@jamesdalton2014

2 жыл бұрын

I do expect Ian to say "No, Karl. You cannot mud test the gauss rifle!"

@Crazyninja30

2 жыл бұрын

#BrandNewSentence

This really goes to show just how much energy gunpowder really holds.

@KneeCapHill

2 жыл бұрын

It's high explosive

@boxcarz

2 жыл бұрын

@@KneeCapHill Not... Exactly...

@21kiwi24

2 жыл бұрын

@@KneeCapHill its literally a low explosive.

@vidarodinsson

2 жыл бұрын

Gunpowder doesn't actually hold much energy, it's a slow burning propellant. We modulate the energy released through pressure manipulation

@Not_A-Bear

2 жыл бұрын

@@21kiwi24 I mean, if you stuck a detonator in it, it’ll detonate. It’s nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose. We just don’t detonate it.

I could see this being extremely useful technology for fixed applications. You could probably use 3 phase electricity to add spin to the projectile

It would be very easy to experiment with projectile shapes and sizes - spiral fluted to add spin like rifled shotgun slugs, or shape it with a conical point and front heavy to minimize Tumblr. It might also be possible to have more than one barrel in order to increase the rate of fire or to be able to fire different projectile types or different diameters - think of .17 and 45/70 coming from the same gun.

Considering it's place in the timeline of electrically driven guns I think the term 'E- Musket' would suit it well.

@BastiHamburgCity

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely! It’s long, unhandy, inaccurate and got to be charged after every shot.

@Puffufuf

2 жыл бұрын

Would "Thunderbuss" be too goofy? 😄

@RedMageGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@Puffufuf If you could just dump a handful of steel balls into it and fire them shotgun style, "Thunderbuss" would be incredibly appropriate.

@F14thunderhawk

2 жыл бұрын

@@RedMageGaming you could already use masking tape and sewing needles to create a Flechette cannon, probably

@EkEMaN91

2 жыл бұрын

@@Puffufuf Not at all, since I was thinking of Gaussket. Haha

“This thing has the muzzle energy of a 22 long” that absolutely blew my mind. May not be a powerful round but I personally just wasn’t expecting this thing to be anywhere near that level of power at this early stage.

@scavulous6336

2 жыл бұрын

That's not much for the size of the projectile

@ZealothPL

2 жыл бұрын

Still wouldn't want to get hit by one Wonder how they would interact with ballistic gel

@juhajuntunen2557

2 жыл бұрын

100J is enough to kill

@jamesricker3997

2 жыл бұрын

This is the gauss rifle equivalent of a match lock. There is a lot of room for future development

@calvingreene90

2 жыл бұрын

With the advantage that the target won't fail to notice he was shot in the heart till after he beat you to death.

I made a little coil gun in high school for a project, nowhere near as hardcore as this, inspiring me to step up my game.

Stabilizing the barrel is going to increase velocity and accuracy. Not to mention making it more silent. Most of the noise is the barrel bouncing in the unit. What a great start to future rifles though. Second the poster who said they'd never thought this would be in their lifetime.

SAFETY NOTE: Always treat the capacitors like they're live, like how you never ever point your barrel at someone

@paavobergmann4920

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, Capacitors have a nasty habit of sneaking up on you, and these things are monsters, if they don´t hurt, they kill outright. I guess, a few percent of residual charge is enough for a painful surprise

@cnawan

2 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to note that this rifle is never fully "safe". With projectiles removed the battery is still potentially a fire hazard, and even with that removed, the capacitors are still potentially an electrical hazard. That's a bit different to a normal firearm where if it's definitely unloaded, it's about as dangerous as a mousetrap.

@judgemoses9015

2 жыл бұрын

​@@cnawan Like firearms, unloaded this thing is only as lethal as you can swing it. Also, ammunition can literally explode, which is like the one thing worse than catch on fire. The rules can be contrasted as such: firearms and live ammo never mix unless you know what you're shooting at and it's a good idea to shoot it, and you should never ever touch one of those capacitors unless you are for sure certain that it and you are safe, because you can do all the things you need too with those capacitors with equipment that keeps you safe if those designers are worth their salt.

@PeTTs0n88

2 жыл бұрын

@@cnawan You can definitely discharge capacitors safely, depending on how the power delivery system is designed. But it's not an insurmountable issue.

@MadScorpable

2 жыл бұрын

People have to remember the dielectric absorption. HV capacitors need to be short circuited during storage to avoid this effect.

I’m amazed by how fictional gauss rifles like those in STALKER and Fallout resemble this prototype in appearance and function. Similar magazine sizes, charge times, even a charge-up sound (although the video game ones use much more dramatic noises). The game devs must have done their homework, or life is imitating art once again.

@thefez-cat

2 жыл бұрын

In a sense it's the homework. A powerful flashbulb for photography, or even a disposable camera, makes a similar high-pitched whine as it charges. A battery dumping energy into a bank of capacitors is relatively old technology, at least conceptually.

@StrUpSavage

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefez-cat absolutely, we’ve had the know how to do this for a very long time. Large Capacitors lots of amps lots of induction lots of magnetic field. Very simple theory. We just haven’t had good enough battery’s and capacitors until now.

@nimay13

2 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, the gauss gun concept had been around decades before the game release.

@James_Bee

2 жыл бұрын

"Until now" yeah, we still don't. While impressive as a dangerous toy, a 22lr is more effective than this thing. Hell, a sling is a better weapon. Maybe in 30 years.

@LordStarbeard

2 жыл бұрын

@Nice Until the next big war that is... *glancing nervously at Ukraine*

A flat battery with wireless charging mats and specific contacts, 2 batteries with with a wider tapering stock. A No2 cartridge compartment for gas assisted loading chambering for rifling and cooling. No2 gets cold when going through friction. Like filling a paintball tank. Capacitors that feel better in the hand and a rail to hold the in place for a mount like a bipod. Could throw a flexible replaceable solar cell on the outside stock side of the battery for unused charging. There's potential there.

We have entered the "Set phasers to stun" era

As far as looks goes, I'm incredibly suprised how close Fallout 4 got.

@shiv3rcubesolver664

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, you're right

@collindrilling7727

2 жыл бұрын

Like god intended

@ethansenter5298

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly

@IvoryRune

2 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet it's not a coincidence

@509Gman

2 жыл бұрын

2077 is only 55 years away

Reminds me of the really early lasers. They look ludicrously huge and foreign but they eventually got smaller and more practical.

@alexey_chekhovich

2 жыл бұрын

Only thing is that every single component of this gun is way older than laser as a technology. Capacitors, batteries, coils, etc. It’s been in use for decades before first lasers.

@squizzlor

2 жыл бұрын

God right, insane to think about. Now they are smaller then a duracel battery and just need to operate on one.

@modarkthemauler

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but it took a lot of time for those components, mainly batteries, to get small and efficient enough to be used portable. Also the computer controlling it.

@nathanaelsmith3553

2 жыл бұрын

Although those components are low tech, they require high tech materials and manufacturing technology to make the gun practical.

@redrackham6812

2 жыл бұрын

This is a completely different problem from miniaturizing lasers. The power supply on this device has a much lower specific energy and much lower specific power than does conventional smokeless powder. That is a fundamental fact of chemistry and nature.

Aside from stronger/more capacitors to increase muzzle velocity they should use fin-stabilized dart rounds. This will practically eliminate the tumbling and get much better accuracy.

All I'm seeing here is the Bolter from Warhammer 40,000k in its very first (ancient) prototype. 👍🏽✔️

Greatest line ever: “Don’t stick a fork in the gauss rifle.”

@pearz420

2 жыл бұрын

-Terran Marine Proverb

@Grilldude

Жыл бұрын

@@pearz420 everyone gangsta till the grass rifle researches u-235 bullets

@TrekDelta

Жыл бұрын

"Do not look at the operational end of the device"

So that's how they felt in the 1840s looking at a Dreyse, or in the 1850s looking at the Gloire, or in the 1890s looking at a maxime gun! This is so cool!

"why would you want that? It's not practical at all" "because its fuckin awesome thats why"

Not a single comment about the terrifying lack of sound. Not only is almost silent ACTUALLY but I would not register that a gun shot.. TACTICAL AS FK

The "do not stick a fork into the Gauss rifle" thing kinda sounds like a video game loading screen tip

21:45 - you can hear the capacitors charging up like an old camera flash. I love it.

@42Antares42

2 жыл бұрын

It's sooo much the same concept, down to the trigger design Ian talks about. Like my old photo camera, if I partly depress the button, it'll use power from the battery to charge a capacitor, making that noise, then the signal will come on, I fully depress and bang, the flash / gun goes off.

@benjaminsanchez1869

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like I thought a gun of the future would sound like as a child. Soon the sound of guns racking will be replaced with the high pitched sound of capacitors charging.

@RuralTowner

2 жыл бұрын

@@42Antares42 Some simple DIY coil guns are built using the flash mechanism from those cameras

@kashakesh

2 жыл бұрын

oh, to have tinnitus-free ears... every moment of every day is like an old school camera flash charging for me. Protect your hearing, kids!

@phrogman1164

2 жыл бұрын

Likes some shit from fallout lmao

Ian and his magazine fed, bullpup, electromagnetic musket

A literal 3D- printed portable railgun. What a time to be alive

Ian McCollum, folks. Published expert on French rifles, official tester of a coil gun. What a wild life Ian leads.

@mq5731

2 жыл бұрын

He is Gun Jesus!

@johnspizziri1919

2 жыл бұрын

his life sucks.

@deathdealer312

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnspizziri1919 better than yours

@Rid_Of_Thee

2 жыл бұрын

@@deathdealer312 better than mine, that’s for sure

Gauss Gun Safety: 7:05 Rule #1 - Do not stick a fork into the gauss rifle. 7:45 Rule #2 - Do not EMP backblast your cyborg friends. 17:00 Rule #3 - Storage: turn off, remove magazine, disconnect battery. Don’t lick the terminals.

@bthsr7113

2 жыл бұрын

Rule #4 - Do not look into the laser emitter, because somehow you idiots didn't learn that one yet.

@sixstringedthing

2 жыл бұрын

Rule #5 - Green = Good, Yellow = Hmmm, Red = Bad Day. Do not Red.

@anderseckstrand7033

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@letsburn00

2 жыл бұрын

I like the phrase "Do not open when live. It will kill you and it will hurt the whole time you are dying."

@kaine2416

2 жыл бұрын

I would say that sounds like a USMC safety brief but you didn't include a warning to not attempt to... impregnate it...

Can't believe he tossed that magazine on the ground like that, where's the respect 😂 19:10

I was expecting more "Eraser" lol pretty wild!

You know this is a prototype when you see a deans connector on the battery pack cable! I love it, the whole thing feels so developmental and that's brilliant, we don't often get to see this stage only the finished item. 👍

@backwoodsjunkie08

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I was thinking the same! That's the same connectors I use on my rc planes!

@houghwhite411

2 жыл бұрын

AK50 lol That said, I'm surprised to see 3d printed part

@TheLaXandro

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. In 10 years it will indeed become a forgotten weapon even if those enter production since it's such an early prototype.

@john_john_john

2 жыл бұрын

You know it's a prototype because it has 3D printed everything.

@cdgonepotatoes4219

2 жыл бұрын

On Forgotten Weapons many prototypes saw screen time, the difference is this prototype is made with modern prototype materials and it's an electronic product which means 3D printed PLA, polycarbonate and standard boards instead of visible machining and other signs of hand-made metalworking

For living in the future, the most terrifying noise to come will be the sudden high-pitched "weeeeeee" of a charging coil gun. Especially if right behind you unexpectedly.

@cIappo896

2 жыл бұрын

There are scarier things, that are banned but probably still are being developed in secret.

@bastian_5975

2 жыл бұрын

that's probably just the riffle interfering with the mic.

@variable5566

2 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping more for an "ominous hummmmmm". Heh

@chilebike6556

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that in 'Men In Black'?

@MrToradragon

2 жыл бұрын

@@bastian_5975 That is common sound of switched power sources, even the way it sounds is just same as loaded/unloaded power supply, you can hear how it changes during charging. If you will grab power source of your laptop, or printer or something similar and put it close to your ear, you would hear almost the same sound of square wave.

Very cool it was louder then I was expecting it to be.

"Assuming everything goes as it's supposed to" seems like it's doing some heavy lifting.