its basically the next technological tier of throwing a sharp stick really fast

@valiroime

3 жыл бұрын

It pretty much all variations on that theme.

@jaakkopontinen

3 жыл бұрын

Caveman go OOGA OOGA Good stik

@brokeandtired

3 жыл бұрын

a bullet is basically a short sharp (or blunt) stick...

@soul1d

3 жыл бұрын

sharp rock. metals are just purified rock

@kevinmorgan2968

3 жыл бұрын

Look, baby, the future is not in ‘sticks’! It’s in ‘rocks’! Come on, ignore that heavy metal copper, let’s just rock it!

Suggestion: How Sir Simon successfully manages his infinite number of channels... and growing daily.

@TheMalkavianmadman

3 жыл бұрын

Simon has almost perfected human cloning, there is a little instability though (see Business Blaze)

@james8449100

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's a Schrödinger's youtube thing

@banzic6083

3 жыл бұрын

the bigger his beard is, the more powerful he grows

@trj1442

3 жыл бұрын

You know Simon is not a real person don't you? He's just an updated Max Headroom with better AI. He looks real though I grant you that.

@natehaviland3244

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpV8o65rmLS-qrA.htmlm59s he survives by letting the blaze out on his other channels randomly

One thing to note - there is already a railgun in combat service, but it's projectile are fighter jets. The electromagnetic catapult system on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. The side note here, is that those ships have a nuclear reactor to power the damn thing.

Just for the sake of comparison on barrel life to keep things in perspective: The barrel life of an Iowa-class battleship's 16" gun was around 300 shells, more or less depending on how many full or partial powder charges were put through the gun. Although, the 5" guns the same class carried had barrels that last for 4600 full charge firings.

@seananthonyegan3395

3 жыл бұрын

That's a really intresting peice of information 😊

@OddZodd

3 жыл бұрын

Bigger diameter, faster weardown?

@JonMartinYXD

3 жыл бұрын

To clarify a few things: the life of the 16"/50 Mk 7 guns is actually the life of the *liner*. The barrel is made of multiple layers with the liner being the innermost and thinnest. It is the liner that has the rifling and is subject to wear with each shot. Originally most of the wear was not caused by the friction of the shell but gaseous erosion - the heat and chemical action of the propellant gases. Improvements in propellant ultimately gave the Mk7's liner a life of ~1500 shots. After that the barrel would have to go back to the factory to have the liner replaced, a time consuming and expensive process.

@PSC4.1

3 жыл бұрын

@@JonMartinYXD agreed and during the first and second world wars, the British navy was constantly on the hunt to make sure enemy ships didn’t solidly hold territory as well as protect the supply ships when coming within range of the mainland. I just realized as well that if it’s not the friction from the slug itself but the gas, removing the explosion completely gets rid of the gas and the barrel life would probably be worth more shots since the friction would probably tear the barrel down very slowly.

@OddZodd

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielduncan6806 who knew, not everyone knows everything

The railgun reminds me of the huge sniper in Evangelion where they used all of the elctricity in Japan just to fire the gun

@phodon129

3 жыл бұрын

True, but that one was a particle accelerator firing a stream of antimatter.

@Homcomru

3 жыл бұрын

Particle *Accelerator?* *Railgun?* Welp, I guess I haven’t left “A Certain Fandom” then (my beloved fandom; if you know, you know).

@hardbrocklife

3 жыл бұрын

@@Homcomru you stop it. Just finished Accelerator yesterday, and going back to Index. Trying to watch a certain series' in chronological order is a mess. I also thing Index is meh. Accelerator and railgun are leaps and bounds better imo.

@randomsandwichian

3 жыл бұрын

@@phodon129 Basically the same thing being used under Switzerland to study black holes, just shorter and in one direction. Lucky there are no live robot-organic zoid defense system, school for particularly gifted children or magic terrorists groups anywhere in sight.

@hawk6111

3 жыл бұрын

I call all wepons like this MEME guns

Simon is everything the Discovery and history channels should be.

@valiroime

3 жыл бұрын

National Geographic as well.

@clsanchez77

3 жыл бұрын

Im old enough to remember that Simon is what those channels used to be.

@redneckshaman3099

Жыл бұрын

I'm addicted to pigger nussy 😸

@capt.bart.roberts4975

Жыл бұрын

I still haven't got over the idea that they got ?9/10? series on a hole in the ground, Oak Island.

My dad machined a few parts gor the railgun that is much as he could tell me that he machined parts. Bless his soul as cancer stole him from this world. I hope he is up in heaven.

@FreakyTeeth

Жыл бұрын

My condolences.

1:25 - Chapter 1 - How it works 3:15 - Chapter 2 - History 7:00 - Chapter 3 - Potential problems 8:30 - Chapter 4 - Accuracy 9:30 - Chapter 5 - Modern railguns 12:10 - Chapter 6 - The future of warfare

@Apple.CC.technomail

10 ай бұрын

Thx

Another Megaprojects suggestion: The cameras that recorded the projectiles in flight.

@ronmani9476

3 жыл бұрын

Slow Mo Guys/Mega projects crossover!

@danb2529

3 жыл бұрын

Hadland mini-FF, about $100k.

@CiTiZENpsn

3 жыл бұрын

Curious Droid did a video on his channel. Pretty interesting watch.

@panzerveps

3 жыл бұрын

That's more a side project video. And Curious Droid already did a superb video on it.

@MrSdsok

3 жыл бұрын

@Filip Legény mind to explain in basic physics?

Simon: we could start launching spacecraft daily if we needed to SpaceX: gestures broadly

@jeffreycarman2185

Жыл бұрын

SpaceX needs to get themselves a ginormous rail gun powered by renewable energy.

@futuristica1710

Жыл бұрын

Space X sucks.

@dylankrepps2169

Жыл бұрын

@@futuristica1710 HATE HATE HATE That interview with BBC urinalist priceless

@gomahklawm4446

11 ай бұрын

SpaceX isn't a viable company. They are just grifting off taxpayers. It's disgusting. As soon as they stop paying, SpaceX will be gone. Starship, a vessel with literally no purpose or realistic market, will bankrupt them, even Elon stated it was a huge risk. The starlink internet isn't the internet, they are merely routers, hence why the service is so costly.

@Wade-1

10 ай бұрын

Not a manned space craft unless you want to kill the humans on board. No way they can handle that speed that fast.

You should do an alternative to the rail gun: the coil gun. Also, please include space applications. These devices have been talked about as mass drivers for vehicle launches from the Moon.

New idea for Simon’s nested channel: Cancelled Projects

@zelkuta

3 жыл бұрын

That actually sounds like a fun idea

@robertleeder1538

2 жыл бұрын

What about “half finished then abandoned projects”. We have some of those in Australia

Used a rail gun in halo 4, was meh power weapon. Perhaps they should look into a rifle that shoots beams or explosive needles

@brucebaxter6923

3 жыл бұрын

They have. The needles were done in the 60’s see spew. The beam weapon just doesn’t work out with physics.

@TbjrL

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucebaxter6923 yes but no not without direct connection to extremely high power or stupidly dense batteries. But as of now the shits a si-fi cum bucket

@Zyo117

3 жыл бұрын

I remember the Halo books addressed the whole damage to the weapon thing, it was the reason they used magnetic coils instead of rails for their MAC weapons.

@andyf4292

3 жыл бұрын

enough velocity,,, explosives become pointless...... 4.5km/s

@brucebaxter6923

3 жыл бұрын

@@TbjrL Not even that problem. To damage a human in a reasonable amount of time, ie milliseconds before they move, the energy density ionises air and then absorbs the beam. The next problem is beam divergence that requires a reflector that is measured in meters not mm. Etc etc

7:49 I love how you can see the sabot behind the round, quickly losing ground, but still with a mach cone...

I highly recommend the tv series The Expanse. It features rail guns and shows how devastating they can be.

@MihzvolWuriar

3 жыл бұрын

This season finale had a massive battle that showed it's power, one shot completely crippled a ship, and yet the visual damage was very small, surgical strike is the best kind of strike. But that last shot was the best cgi I saw in a long time.

@mikepayne1167

3 жыл бұрын

@@MihzvolWuriar it really was impressive, and that’s from a show that frequently impresses with its special effects.

The rail gun to launch spacecraft is featured prominently in Gundam Seed, they refer to them as mass drivers in the show. Though they don't specifically talk about that piece of tech, you can tell that's what they are by the way they are depicted and destroyed.

Using cannons to get stuff into space? Jules Verne would be proud.

@andersjjensen

3 жыл бұрын

Well sorta, but not. It would be more like an electric trebuchet using magnetism instead of the counter weight... since people become rather squishy when you depart them at 20000G :P

@Annou7la

3 жыл бұрын

Engineers: found miraculous ways to transform human visual information into light waves, transmit it over vast distances and then reconstruct it in tiny devices that use liquid crystals being ordered by electricity. Physicists: built km long incredible machines with precision in the fractions of the size of a proton that measure the very disturbances of the fabric of existence. Military dudes: still searching ways to throw rocks faster.

@kaltaron1284

3 жыл бұрын

@@andersjjensen I know that using it for humans is (currently) out of the question because of the squishiness but the idea is related.

@hughjass1044

3 жыл бұрын

We've coma a long way since The Flintstones.

@valiroime

3 жыл бұрын

@@Annou7la So, Wonka Vision?

I suspect that what we are being shown is quite dated.

@popuptoaster

3 жыл бұрын

While that is true, history is also full of failed and abandoned military projects that don't come to light until declassified so there is no way to know if rail guns will succeed or not.

@johnmorrissey8592

3 жыл бұрын

Actually they installed a rail gun on a Navy warship a year ago. They have also been working on this in a declassified manner for 20 + years.

@josephfreeman3816

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the info is dated. The USA decid s d. Not to move for we are aggressively The Chibese and Russians are

@shaundavidssd

3 жыл бұрын

@@popuptoaster they've got one on a ship ,I believe it's in the med right now

@kingjames4886

3 жыл бұрын

don't think the footage is even from the military, seemed like it was test footage from that company that made them. it's also like a decade old or older now.

Everybody gangsta till someone makes a stationary beam magnum from gundam.

@natesmodelsdoodles5403

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, a Minovsky reactor would give just about anything stealth and ECM capabilities.

He actually missed the largest problem with railguns, and the real reason militaries are putting less time into them. *Energy transfer.* Studying terminal ballistics taught us a long time ago that too much power in a projectile will actually reduce effectiveness. Like neutrons, the vast majority of energy is dispersed just before the object stops - if a projectile blows through an object too easily, very little of the energy is imparted on the struck object. The deck-mounted railgun was punching clean holes directly through target ships. Small arms found a way around this with hollow-point (the round disintegrates, which causes 100% of energy to be imparted on the target), but it's been an issue finding a similar solution for ammunition under the acceleration stress of rail rounds. Railguns might retain a place in the future as they have incredible range, incredible potential energy (if the correct target is found), and practically no way of neutralizing (defending against) them. They're certainly not practical in most applications though.

@hawk6111

2 жыл бұрын

The idea behind kenitic energy penetrators is to defeat armor not deliver all the energy of said projectile.

@hawk6111

2 жыл бұрын

@@commenter1430 killing power is irrelevant if you cant defeat the armor. The best way to beat armor is with something hard and pointy going really fast. That's why the Abrams tank uses depleted uranium ke penetrators. The round looks like an arrow after the sabot is discarded

@hawk6111

2 жыл бұрын

@@commenter1430 considering most things the size of a ship will be armord I would go for that over maximum energy transfer.

@hawk6111

2 жыл бұрын

@@commenter1430 you thought processes is good when dealing with flesh targets but once you start dealing with armord vehicles it's more beneficial to actually get past the armor and on a vehicle that can be a significant amount

@TheAunvre

2 жыл бұрын

@@hawk6111 You’re obviously young, and not in the military. You’re talking about armour like it’s Warhammer 40k - like it’s even an issue. Weapon Strength is almost always stronger than armour; we’ve never had trouble piercing it once we know how thick it is. Once we learn something is “sturdier” we simply scale up the energy transfer slightly, or circumvent it (HESH/HEAT). There is nothing on earth that’s even close to the level of a rail gun, it would blow a hole straight through a main battle tank or battleship. Ships are actually pretty unarmoured (comparatively to MBT’s). Secondly, energy transfer isn’t “irrelevant” if you can’t beat the armour - this isn’t the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If the armour actually stopped a rail round, the energy transfer that would be imparted on the crew inside would kill them. There’s a reason the US Army doesn’t heavily armour everything, at a point it doesn’t matter. IEDs killed a lot of people in armoured vehicles just due to energy transfer (no direct contact was made).

Lets hope they actually get these things small enough to fit on ships. The removal of propellent storage would be great.

@EliB207

3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope we get one small enough so we can fire them ourselves

@jeffpeffers4519

3 жыл бұрын

Great! More holes in me ship. Will this madness never end!?!!

@tylerjackson4168

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Magazines are protected as best as possible but the right hit from an enemy shell if it can't detonate the magazine directly the subsequent fire may detonate said magazine. I don't think any warship can sustain a magazine explosion. Please correct me if I am wrong. (Edited because of auto correct.)

@bullreeves1109

3 жыл бұрын

@@tylerjackson4168 Thats pretty accurate. Ironically it’s rarely the shells that detonate on a magazine hit, Its primarily the propellent that starts the explosion. And 9 times out of 10 if a Main magazine goes off then the ship it was on is a loss. The main benefit to rail guns is that it gets rid of the risk of a Magazine from going off when hit as there is no longer propellent and most if not all Rail gun shells are purely kinetic.

@danieltempas6062

3 жыл бұрын

What about the extremely high energy fuel that needs to be used to create the electric power to fire the gun. There would need to ba a lot of that.

After spending many months worth of time working on my own small scale coil/railgun projects, the thing that I noticed that most folks fail to mention is that unlike using conventional chemical explosive energy to power the projectile, In the case of the linear motor, the higher the mass of the projectile, the more efficient and energetic the launch tends to be. I will refer to my experience with my simple single stage coil gun. The projectile is a highly magnetic steel slug. The more massive the slug is, the more mass there is to be effected by the magnetic field. You can easily feel this effect with your hands. Use a permanent magnet and feel the force exerted on a small chunk of iron, compared to a more massive piece. So I think an alternative approach to weaponizing an electric gun may be focusing on using a higher mass projectile, instead of the current approach of going for ridicules' velocity. For longer ranges I think lasers are a more practical way of expending that huge electrical charge. Battery and capacitor technology will need to improve before we can replace gun powder for the bulk of our weaponry. Despite the artificially inflated price of ammo currently in the US, it's quite cheap to produce.

Great video Simon. Nice work as always 👌👍

Thanks

@darkstar0554

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t expect to see you here. lol

alrighty-- you got me with the "As seen on XCOM" props, and watch out for grenades on your landing craft.

A suggestion - how ultra-fast technology developed. Gradually frames-per-second increased - starting at the bog-standard 30fps that recorded simple motion to the mind-boggling techniques used to film those rail-gun projectiles moving at thousands of m/s.

@counterfit5

3 жыл бұрын

Tracking ultra-high speed targets is usually done using mirrors

@DreadX10

3 жыл бұрын

That is indeed an interesting subject, including the early million frames per second camera's that could only take a handful of pictures....

@alreed2434

3 жыл бұрын

@@DreadX10 For the atomic bomb tests, they had a super light gas in the enclosure of the cameras so the armature could move fast enough. Really cool stuff.

@thefolder69

2 жыл бұрын

do-you-think-you-got-enough-hyphens-in-your-comment?

@manuellongo4365

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefolder69 Not really. If you comment, at least try and say something intelligent and related to the clip.

Simon! I have been flying and missing your vids. Glad to see you're still doing what you do best.

Love these type of videos! Thanks Simon!

In Robert A. Heinlein's 1964 book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" they used a similar device to launch cargo from the moon to the earth.

@charanvantijn541

3 жыл бұрын

Except that they were coil guns. Also electrically powered, but simpler technology. Nice subject for Simon.

@vanceblosser2155

3 жыл бұрын

@@charanvantijn541 True, but still ahead of his time and a great read.

@ronskopitz2360

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and another example of science fact “borrowing”from science fiction (and probably taking credit for the idea)

@vanceblosser2155

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronskopitz2360 Sometime in the late 60s or early 70s I saw a clip of a soviet film on TV that showed what looked like Heinlein's lunar catapult. I've been trying to find the clip or the movie it came from ever since with no luck.

@bluegregory6239

9 ай бұрын

Neal Stephenson, an admitted fan of Heinlein, mentioned the concept of space-launched 'rods' in his excellent novel 'Anathem'.

Wow I was literally researching this last night because I was interested in it, what perfect timing

I am continually impressed by your ability to keep to facts and avoid BS. Well done.

Having been in some special places in the Military, I will tell you that current tech is typically 25 to 30 years ahead of what the public is aware of and sometimes as much as 50 years. Some tech would have you think "Magic". The less you hear about a project, the more likely it is successful. The more you hear about it, the higher the likelihood it is propaganda.

@qjtvaddict

Жыл бұрын

What about transportation tech?

@gecsus

Жыл бұрын

@@qjtvaddict Tech is tech.

Finally, an announcement for an upcoming Strategic Defensive Initiative video! I’ve been dying for one on Star Wars. Such a fascinating chapter of recent history.

"We have perfected a method of repeating everything BAE developes."

@chrisjack7857

3 жыл бұрын

The American way!

@derekp2674

3 жыл бұрын

BAE == Big And Expensive :)

that was interesting, informative and a very complete overview! Thanks!

Railguns are AWESOME. We tried to build one to fire pennies in one of my lab classes once.

He keeps saying that ‘human technology’ isn’t there yet. Does he know something about alien technology that we don’t yet? 🧐

@LeoStaley

3 жыл бұрын

Secret dolphin technology

@hongo3870

3 жыл бұрын

I will say a few things Exotic matter, with what is understood (but not confirmed) to be able to catalyze an exertion of force mathematically identical to gravity Magnetic fields that are sustained at full strength wirelessly by exotic matter fueled generators An unknown material similar to both ceramic and aluminum, which is atomically structured like a crystal and has the properties of a perfect insulator now excuse me i have a government to run from

@live2ride18

3 жыл бұрын

Well we’re all about to know about it as that last American stimulus Bill said they release all info in 180 days. So in about 3.5 months, get ready legends!!

@smoothlyrough512

3 жыл бұрын

No, he's just saying humans are still stupid

@rexstocephirxiii4263

3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoStaley not dolphins. Crows.

Whatever happened to that railgun that was supposed to be tested on a ship? - That's classified!

@Doc_Dolan

3 жыл бұрын

See my reply comment to Kevin Murphy below.

@thecooky4944

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't work so it was removed and the aircraft carrier catapult using the same princepl not so hot

@id104335409

3 жыл бұрын

No, you dummies. It's a reference to the Transformers movie. You see, the ship that "doesn't have" a rail gun, shot the alien robot off the Giza Pyramid.

@Aya_Brea1998

3 жыл бұрын

Jill Valentine used it on Nemesis

@robertthompson7059

3 жыл бұрын

@@id104335409 Lol, i got that one. I was surprised i got it and opened comments to be loud and proud about it. Nice one. :D

Wow, great content and really cool, subscribed! Also you could do a bit about space lasers - the only means of countering ICBMs (because a lasers ballistic potential, especially in a vaccuum is limitless) Could shift the balance of power very quickly

Your awesome DUDE, keep it up 💪

The fact that no one has tipped their hand tells me they are trying.

@Kenneth_James

3 жыл бұрын

The fact that they installed enough extra power on the Zumwalt Destroyers should say a lot.

@JonMartinYXD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kenneth_James All that means is that when they designed the Zumwalt's they hoped the gun technology would eventually catch up. The better indicator is what is going in the ships being designed today, eg. the Constellation class.

@Morris2182

3 жыл бұрын

Jon Martin its the cost of the special ammunition that shut that down I had heard. But yes I believe the Zumwalt was basically designed around the gun BaE had developed, I could be wrong but I'm sure I read somewhere the "shells" were almost a million a piece or something crazy like that. (Edit: the ammunition is called Long Range Land Attack Projectile or LRLAP and according to some sources each round was $800,000-1 million to procure)

@JonMartinYXD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Morris2182 When I said "gun technology" I meant railguns and beyond that would use the Zumwalt's 78 MW of power generation. The 155 mm AGS guns were supposed to be the zero risk technology for today. As you say, the guns worked just fine but the LRLAP ammunition was unaffordable. It was pretty stupid of them to not make the AGS compatible with the existing array of 155 mm ammunition used by the US Army, Marines, and dozens of other countries.

A pertinent observation: The material stresses of steel are already pushed to to their limit with chemical guns, and most of the energy goes straight into the projectile anyway. The problem of the rails breaking after each use will be hard to fix because it's the same limit of steel that is limiting regular guns.

@maccurtis730

3 жыл бұрын

New materials are a thought.

@JoshSweetvale

3 жыл бұрын

@@maccurtis730 No. One of the sad realities of the modern era: Very few things are stronger than steel.

@maccurtis730

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSweetvale They have billions to millions of dollars they can afford the other materials must not be enough created.

@JoshSweetvale

3 жыл бұрын

@@maccurtis730 Again, no. There is no Mithrill. Steel is the best you've got. Only possible future upgrade is steel with carbon nanotubes in - on a macro scale, which is on the same tech level as curing cancer.

@blinkyrem

3 жыл бұрын

@@JoshSweetvale Steel is a really active area of development. If you want to learn more, look up nano-structured bainites. To keep it simple, they're about 4 times the strength of a lot of common steels and have very high ductility. These two things combined means they can absorb a lot of energy before fracture (less before deformation). Not sure about their electrical properties...

Simon on my new feed on a never ending amount of channels thus mans accent really does pay the bills

I love your reference too the current Starships(5:48). Good design🤓😂🤜🏼🤛🏼🇦🇺🍀😎

I think there's a better chance of Simon changing his shirt than us seeing a working railgun.

@lasersimonjohnson

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mH95w6ahdLfJmbQ.html

@lasersimonjohnson

3 жыл бұрын

@Annas R Zulficar many great inventions were created with no goal in mind then applications for its use are usually refined and adapted to suit abd this takes time and money eapecially when dealing with high energy levels.

@StrangeTerror

3 жыл бұрын

Lol but you just saw one. Seriously though, I think we're closer than is being let on. Do I think we'll see guided munitions in the near future? Not at all. At the end of the day though, the sheer penetration and speed of the round could make it extremely useful even with the low firing rate in certain situations. Maybe it will initially be used as coastal defense of some sort. Possibly mounted on top of mountains/hills to help with engagement range for say firing at landing craft without needing the guidance system to account for curvature of the planet. Or possibly as an additional system to counter ICBM threats. Using it something like a KKV (kinetic kill vehicle) But what do I know? Answer, jack shit.

@matthewbyrd2329

3 жыл бұрын

Uh, they already have it. We’re you watching the video, or just mesmerized by Simon’s shirt?

@scubasam4255

3 жыл бұрын

they have big ones installed already on battleships just they never show them goverment classified n what not id guess

The SGC had them over 10 years ago.

@MihzvolWuriar

3 жыл бұрын

Of course, when you inherit the technology of a race with at least a millennium of technological advances, I bet rail guns became child's play, since you're building intergalactic ships too.

Strive for the world record of most channels with 100k viewers. You're so close Simon! Be the boy with the blaze all the time

The nearest railgun/railcannon tech that we could see and experience were at the guise of these two to three pop culture references: Bandai Spirits/ Sunrise's Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, in the guise of the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam's MMI-M15 Xiphias Railguns and its successor; MMI-M15E Xiphias 3 Railcannons equipped on the ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam The other, would be from an experimental US Naval Warship equipped with a Railgun that nearly totalled Decepticons Devastator, The Fallen and Megatron in Transformers 2 Revenge of The Fallen... I do agree that there are a multitude of problems regarding Railgun and Railcannon Technology plus R&D: . Unlimited Power Supply, which should never strain both the Ship's/Bases' Powerplants, Power Conduit Cables, and related tech- Nuclear Fission Reactors may be drained or overload (God Forbid) because of the process; perhaps Fusion and/or Arc Reactors fielded by Stark Industries, Gundam Franchise, Star Wars, and Star Trek if not others fit: The drawback: we need to go Interstellar to source out Rare Terrain Metals and Minerals for both the Reactors and the Railguns/Railcannons themselves... And needs be miniaturized to power both bases/ships and the railguns/railcannons themselves- plus its backup safety shutdown systems- should the railguns/ railcannons be overused . Armor Material and Armoring Technology- let's admit- we have dried up the Earth's Terrain Metals for both the excesses of humanity brought about by wars, technology, and ideology-fuelled ambitions; leading to massive technological backlogs and drawbacks If ever we find materials far durable than Vibranium and/or Adamantium: within and/or outside Earth Sphere/Solar System, good- if paired it with further Pop culture inspired Armoring Tech like beam deflectors and energy armoring like or beyond Variable Phase Shift, Psychofield, or Trans-AM armor (all are Gundam related), Star Trek, Star Wars, and Marvel Comics' S.H.I.E.L.D./Stark Industries/ Avengers- level Armoring Tech: better, yet a long way to achieve such .Heat Sinks, Stabilizers, and Shock Absorbers- these are important since We do not want the enemy to outrun, outsmart, and have us detected due to the sheer heat exchange and emission such railguns/railcannons make, the sonic-boom noise it makes, and most importantly: WE DON'T WANT THE SHIP NOR THE BASE TO BE DEFEATED- Because they can't endure such weapon's feedback Therefore, aside from the pop culture inspired tech references- perhaps the realest/nearest tech center to go to is at Los Alamos, CERN- Large Hadron Collider Complex, and NASA, with do respect .Explosives, Ballistic Ordnances: both the bullet round design, armor material make-up, armor penetrating capability, ammunition round durability and the explosive materials' durability/endurance from being energy charged within the railgun/railcannon- without detonating whilst charged, and will not detonate prematurely upon reaching its target Plus- since Nuclear, Thermonuclear, Hydrogen- based explosives may be a bygone tech should Omni-level Electromagnetic Pulse/Repulse and Neutron Jammer Canceller- equipped Omnicompact Nuclear- Deuterion (Deuterium Ions) Fusion Reactors/ Solar Energy Drive Reactors Exists... Omnicompacting Quintessence/ Quantum Energy and utilize them as Quantum Explosive Warheads/Devices (Explosives capable of destroying entire planets, planetary sun's, and even an entire galactic system... Please refer to both Star Wars, Star Trek, and Marvel/DC Comics for reference, respectively) may be the new normal beyond future warfares Should these be far-fetched and absolute madness beyond existential comprehension- pardon me and I stand to be re-informed and corrected After all: wars brings out both the yearning and the lust to Command and Conquer- whatever it takes despite the sacrifices made and costs... And the will to survive- and that's a fact._ END OF TRANSMISSION._ Post Script Note: Applying railgun/railcannon technology to space flight would be far lethal than the space flight disasters that both the Saturn V Lunar Rocket and the Space Shuttle had experienced The nearest application would be as Mass-Drivers: using both ship propulsion and the Electromagnetic Panels utilized as guided catapults/launch runways. Like railcannons, Mass-Drivers are required to be maintained and have enough power to propel space vehicles at all times, might as well as the space vehicles must indure Advanced Mach and G-Levels- ensuring that the crew within these vessels won't be crushed by Gravity, far grievous and lethal than that experimental Nazi Jet Plane that crushes its pilots to their deaths, because of the intense Mach and G-Levels it reaches because of its flight speed and propulsion, respectively.

Do the Sears Tower in Chicago. Lots of history and cool stuff.

@huwfrancis9437

3 жыл бұрын

I thought they had?

@kevinfreeman3098

3 жыл бұрын

Willis Tower guy, changed like almost twenty years ago, wtf you been.

@michaelkirchner8379

3 жыл бұрын

Named after Bruce Willis. ?

@kevinfreeman3098

3 жыл бұрын

@Robert Sears naa bra, it's just you desperately clinging to any resemblance of coolness or prosperity... Mind you, that's coming from someone born in eyesight of it, oh yeah, also worked out of it. Not getting any ego stroking or sympathy here. 🏙️

@X1M43

3 жыл бұрын

@@SuperUsergame it will always be the Sears Tower to Chicagoans.

This is a certified quake 2 moment

This channel is *MegaAwesome*

I used to support engineers who were working on a Railgun for the Navy (I did IT support for a Defense Contractor). Some of the videos of test fires were crazy.

"Two things you can say about the NAZIs, they were ambitious and D***S!" your greatest line ever!

@anyguy6475

2 жыл бұрын

It has become known that Germany distributed meth amphetamine to its elite Panzer corps & even to its citizenry but has anyone ever heard that that their scientists possibly ran on this stuff, too?🤔

Star Wars Rail Gun: “Bite the power you must, going off rails I am...”

You have a seriously warped sense of humour, but it makes the story that much more "captivating". Well done

Great information 👍👌👏

Can you talk about the Mars rover missions

Maybe it's just me, but I enjoy hearing Simon say "Maaahk"

Suggestion for channel. Leant the difference between voltage, current, and power. In the 1920's 100 MW was a large coal plant and hard to do with a Naval Oil Boiler. In 2006 an couple GE LM2500 gas turbines are small enough to fit on a fighter plane, and can give you more than 100 MW to power a rail gun. The Arleigh Burke class is 1988 gas turbines, propulsion only - and runs 80MW. TL:DR - in 2100's you can mount 4 jet engines for propulsion. And on a cruiser you can easily fit an extra 4 jet engines at 35MW each - that's 140 MW dedicated to weapons. That enough to light up half a city, or to melt your rail gun with more electrical power than the rails can handle. Most naval specs are asking for 25-50 MW for rail guns. Realistically you can power a few on a modern naval ship. Heck, these days a large cruise ship runs 50 MW of gas turbines. Point is, in the 1980's the Advent of marine gas turbines basically changed the face of ship engines and gave more than enough power for rail guns to happen A little physics and Engineering reading can go along way to better understanding and explaining the technology.

Your comment about using this tech as a space launch mechanism reminded me of playing ace combat back in the day. After some googling: ace combat 5 mission 6 is protecting the "mass driver" which seems to basically be a rail gun launch system. Ironically, it is used to launch a giant space laser.

And then, the creation of Estovakia's railgun, the Chandelier.

@gunnargunnarsson5963

3 жыл бұрын

and the rail gun on an Erusean submarine,the Alicorn

@svega1974

10 ай бұрын

@@gunnargunnarsson5963 ONE MILLION LIVES!

US: We have a railgun.... China: Oh yeah we do too! We have them on all our ships US:...but they arent very practical for warfare so we wont be using them China:.....yeah...we dont like them either.......because the thing.... right?

Very interesting concept.

Funny how some people say space exploration is waste of money when we spend hundreds times more on weapons

@utopia4056

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair money for space wouldn't be needed if we were all on the same playing field.

@ezekielbrockmann114

3 жыл бұрын

I myself would rather see my tax monies go toward killing Communists before they kill us. Call me crazy but "space" won't matter to any of us Free Peoples if we're as enslaved and as caged as the Christians, Buddhists and Muslims of China, all now being harvested for their organs.

@derpherp2360

3 жыл бұрын

@@utopia4056 nah def still need space money for stuff like o neal cylinders and other such space archologies, why worry about population density, waste heat and pollution when you can build dyson swarms.

@derpherp2360

3 жыл бұрын

@@ezekielbrockmann114 alright, crazy.

@utopia4056

3 жыл бұрын

@@derpherp2360 I'm implying we'd for sure spend our money on war. Everybody always wants more

After he says, "It's Electric". I immediately thought of my childhood riding at 7 or 8 years old in my moms 1979 z28 Camero. It's electric! You can't see it it's electric! You gotta feel it it's electric! Ooooh, it's shocking it's electric! Jiggle-a-mesa-cara She's a pumping like a matic She's a moving like electric She sure got the boogie You gotta know it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie Now you can't hold it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie But you know it's there Here, there and everywhere I've got to move I'm going on a party ride I've got to groove, groove, groove, And from this music I just can't hide Are you coming with me? Come let me take you on a party ride And I'll teach you, teach you, teach you I'll teach you the electric slide Some say it's mystic It's electric boogie woogie, woogie You can't resist it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie You can't do without it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie Jiggle-a-mesa-cara she's a pumping like a matic She's moving like electric She sure got the boogie Don't want to lose it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie But you can't choose it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie But you know it's there Here, there and everywhere I've got to move Come let me take you on a party ride And I'll teach you, teach you, teach you I'll teach you the electric slide You can't see it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie You gotta feel it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie Ooooh, it's shocking It's electric boogie woogie, woogie Jiggle-a-mesa-cara she's a pumping like a matic She's moving like electric She sure got the boogie You gotta know it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie Now you can't hold it It's electric boogie woogie, woogie But you know it's there Here, there and everywhere Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!) Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!) Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!) Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!) Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!) Ola ola eh, ola eh (don dela don deloh!)

"Shocking... Positively shocking..." -James Bond

Simon: Canadian viewer here, subscribed to all your channels... I think. You keep making new ones so it's hard to be sure. And yes, even business blaze (an OG; free Sam and Danny). My question: did the script for this vid read "streaks ahead" or "streets ahead"? Admittedly, not a question of much import, but I just neeeed to know. It's killing me. I'm dying. I'm not being dramatic, you're being dramatic.

In 1983, I was one of the avionics techs on the early ASAT project for the F-15. I worked in the shops of McDonnel Aircraft at Edwards AFB, CA. One day my boss asked me to go to the lab upstairs and assist the guys there. I found I was helping, as more like a laborer with electronics knowledge, with trying to get a laser on the F-15. I was told the power supply would need to be carried in a C-5 as it would need to be huge. In that job I was involved very quickly in both trying to figure out lasers AND another time I assisted in checking he wiring of the F-15 pylons to see if they could be adapted to nukes.

IMHO The rail-gun is an over-exestuation of current tech without a more compact power source. Nuclear is still the best bet.

@Kenneth_James

3 жыл бұрын

They already have enough power on the Zumwalt Class Destroyers. We built 3. If its anything its material science that is effecting this tech.

@KingJohnMichael

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kenneth_James doubt

@JonMartinYXD

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kenneth_James Yeah, power is not the most immediate limiting factor anymore, rail life is. It is all fine and good for the US military to say they have done hundreds of shots with a set of rails; I want to know how much repair and refurbishment was required between each shot. After the rails you have to keep the projectile alive. At 3.3 km/s (~Mach 10) frictional heating will raise its surface temperature to >3000 C and it will be enveloped in plasma, doing exciting things to electronics and absorbing any radio transmitted guidance instructions. Pro: that also means it will be invisible to radar. Con: it will look like a supernova to anyone with an IRST system. Check out the Sprint missile (3.4 km/s) from the '60s to get an idea of what Mach 10 at low altitudes looks like: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6eM1smNhrDJpaQ.html (yes, that is their real speed shown)

@tippyc2

3 жыл бұрын

I could see it scaled down to the size of a tank. Tanks already carry a huge engine to move that much weight. So you switch that engine over to a generator and drive the tank like a diesel-electric locomotive. Then when you want to shoot, you use the generator to charge a capacitor bank. Limiting factor is how quickly you can recharge the capacitors. That leaves the question of barrel life, but M1 Abrams only carries 55 rounds anyway. So barrel life might not really affect how long of an engagement a railgun tank could fight. You would need to have something like a quick-change barrel and make barrel changes part of your standard maintenance procedure.

@anthonylamonica8301

3 жыл бұрын

@@tippyc2 Or just use coil-guns instead of railguns. A properly designed coil-gun will, in theory, have little or no barrel wear at all.

"Two things you can say about the Nazis. They were ambitious, and they were d*cks" - Simon Whistler 2/26/2021 :D

@panzerveps

3 жыл бұрын

ducks?

@OGTylerP

3 жыл бұрын

@@panzerveps docks?

@OGTylerP

3 жыл бұрын

oh... decks...

@WKRP187

3 жыл бұрын

Well it has to be 1 of those 3 words since nothing else works.. hmmm🤔

@OGTylerP

3 жыл бұрын

@@WKRP187 and dacks isn't a word..

I had not known as much about the military applications, but I had done a HS thesis on non-military uses in about '81 based mostly on public NASA documents on mass drivers in a public university repository. I was looking at transportation and orbital launching. (way more environmentally clean). Some amusement rides like the one vertical Superman amusement park ride was the first commercial use of the linear accelerator technology. Weapons require other tradeoffs.

Did a project on railguns for a Navy ROTC presentation and found out my college was doing railgun research. Manage to get the professor in charge of the research to do a lecture for my class and he brought a table top model. Definitely a doable idea once they can shrink everything down.

I'm trying to fit a kitchen feels like a mega project from here

@HSAC.WDTK.DTKT.LFO.

3 жыл бұрын

David Hill's Kitchen: A Remodeling Project that May Never End.

The problem with our unquenchable thirst for innovation is our tenuous impulse control and our burning desire to ‘shoot stuff’.

@carlbrittain1993

3 жыл бұрын

Are you comparing us to orks? HERESY!

Aye I wasn’t the only one wondering why there was no recent videos of rail guns. Thank you kind sir😂♥️

I remember the testing at Dundrennan! I remember all the power cuts.

I'm so environmentally conscious I even fight wars electrically.

@shades9723

3 жыл бұрын

On pc? 😅

@sashabraus9422

3 жыл бұрын

@@shades9723 If that sooths your mind

@tsmspace

3 жыл бұрын

as if something could be worse for the environment than rare earth mineral mining.

@trueriver1950

3 жыл бұрын

@@tsmspace my guess is that a nuclear war would be a tad worse for the environment due to the fallout than all the mining in history would be even if taken together

@tsmspace

3 жыл бұрын

@@trueriver1950 I suppose burning the entire environment to ash would be worse. but that's not on the list of current events.

So fast you couldn't even say "Donald Duck!!!" before he became pink mist... :P

@timothyball3144

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't tell him to duck.

I don't know how I missed this episode! Rail guns are fascinating.

Superb video. I kept expecting you to say it would require 1.21 gigs watts to fire ✌️

I'd pay real money, to see Simon react to the original Star Wars trilogy.

@dimonik12

3 жыл бұрын

How much and when do you want him?

@Agent4077

2 жыл бұрын

assuming he hasn't already seen them

meanwhile in the Metal Gear universe: launching nukes using rail-guns.

@Christian24583

3 жыл бұрын

thats not unique to metal gear, the fatman in fallout MIGHT be a rail gun, or it might be a slingshot i dont remember

@bobmarine7392

3 жыл бұрын

@@Christian24583 it a slingshot system

@cylontoaster7660

3 жыл бұрын

@@Christian24583 The Fatman in Fallout is based on the real life Davy Crockett recoil-less gun prototype from the 50s. If you look at the "ammo" they used for it, it even looks like the mini nukes in Fallout.

I first learnt about railguns from a shooter game called "Red Faction" where you had a hand held "Rail Driver" that fired Alumnium Slugs (and could penetrait almost any wall or surface which was annoying when bots got them). I'm still waiting on them to be fielded in combat in one way or another (be it on a ship or land based vehicle)

@careless3241

Жыл бұрын

I learned about em in metal gear solid way back when lol

Not quite the Railgun I'm used to but it certainly was interesting to watch.

Do a video on all the various attempts throughout history to control the weather.

Expensive fireworks in military parlance: Shock and Awe

1 minute and Simond got my hopes up

I just discovered u... u r so underrated

Did he just say ... "streets ahead of the allies" :O A certain Mr Hawthorn is dancing in his grave right now.

@Jonathan-pi3tt

3 жыл бұрын

I think he said "streaks ahead" which seems to maybe be a british phase? Early googling is inconclusive though, maybe we're all just streets behind of Simon on the hot new catchphrases.

Imagine you're grabbing breakfast and all of a sudden robbers at a bank 6 miles away fire their railguns and it hits you...

@liamwinter4512

3 жыл бұрын

Like superman flying through a office building

@mbpaintballa

3 жыл бұрын

lol if they could afford this they wouldn't be robbing a bank.

@robertkesselring

3 жыл бұрын

6? 60? 600?

@andyf4292

3 жыл бұрын

you go over 4kms,,, the thing becomes a meteor

1:20 -- "How it works"... In the mid-80's I worked at a plasma physics research lab where one of my projects was a rail gun. When the senior scientist was asked that question he replied "Well, first off, they don't..." The problem is that the "armature" is always a plasma arc of about 3,000 degrees C. That's hotter than the surface of the sun and it always, Always, ALWAYS melts both of the rails in the gun. Distorting the rail surfaces is bad enough (for any subsequent shots) but the problem for the first shot is that the arc is vaporizing the surface of the metal in the rails and effectively adding the vaporized metal to the payload (the bullet). What starts out as a half Kg payload can wind up as a 5 Kg payload where most of the weight is in vaporized rail material. The fastest speed we ever got was 3.5 km/sec back in the mid-80's. After more than 35 years (and god knows how many billions of dollars) later you're reporting the Navy's projectile speeds are 3 km/sec. I got news for you, the Navy has been promising 10 km/sec for more than 30 years but it's never going to happen.

This reminds me of the Omega space gun from SOMA. I loved that game. Super spooky.

The military Vsauce

Season 3 Episode 3 of "The Expanse" was pretty epic in this regard.

@YusufGinnah

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! First thoughts went to the *ROCINANTE* too... 😆🤣🤣👍🏼

Build one as "science project" (end of studies) It required way more researches, fixes, and i've struggled more than i tought setting it up ! I've used massive capacitors and ...quite a budget, all of this to launch a nail through a lab table ! WORTH IT !

They actually used a version of the Rail Gun to launch the space ship in the old George Pal produced film 'When Worlds Collide', might want to check it out just to see how it was conceived of back then.

I could see this technology on a ship, for sure, or possibly a tank. Small arms? I'm skeptical.

@hardbrocklife

3 жыл бұрын

Watched a video in the past that I can't recall the name of, but it discussed how the only way to incorporate it into small arms would be for the projectile to house the power supply. Think high output battery bullet. The obvious draw back is that it would be extremely expensive to use your power supply as the projectile.

@ForgeMasterXXL

3 жыл бұрын

I suppose you could build a back pack to house the power supply and the transformers with a thick wire to the hand gun, venting the heat is going to be a problem though. I far prefer the coil gun technique over the rail gun system.

@manicmechanic448

3 жыл бұрын

@@ForgeMasterXXL nah. Too impractical. That would likely be 50 + pounds, not to mention the rest of their gear. It would have to be a self contained system.

@lukematney7062

3 жыл бұрын

As someone with firsthand knowledge, the two main drawbacks to this weapon are 1: power draw - even on a ship, it would be hard to power this thing, and 2: weapon durability. This thing has a tendency to rip itself to shreds when it fires.

@manicmechanic448

3 жыл бұрын

@@lukematney7062 I know. They he said that in the video.

The future of warfare is here! Let me introduce the weapon of tomorrow- cocaine robot soldiers! Millions and millions of cocaine robot soldiers!- quote attributed to General Simon Whistler, Supreme Allied Commander

@Tubz1990

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the next Business Blaze video 🤣

@themeanestkitten

3 жыл бұрын

That might work, we can make the enemy OD by shooting coke clouds at them.

@Pile_of_carbon

3 жыл бұрын

DARPA have allegedly been experimenting with aerosolized cannabinoids as a way of incapacitating enemy combatants. It's hard to wage war when your troops just want to munch Doritos, watch Netflix and discuss the amazing existence hands... you know... duuude... like... hands are like feet, but for your arms.

My father( who was a tanker for 15 years) now works at Picatinny arsenal (where the navy does development work on the us rail gun) and says that it's truly awe inspiring how much power these things have

@F14thunderhawk

3 жыл бұрын

Railguns: So damn powerful we aim at the atlantic ocean from the middle of new jersey because we dont need to give a shit about hitting Aircraft or civilian infrastructure.

@jasonjones7321

3 жыл бұрын

@@F14thunderhawk negative we shoot it into the side of a granite mountain, trust me picatinny has enough issues with stuff "leaving the reservation" I believe any of the costal testing was done at NWS Earle

and now they've killed railgun projects entirely. Got this video in just in time. RIP Railguns.