
How does a "coilgun" work? - Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange
2011年4月27日 · A coilgun is a series of coils that are successively energized as a conductive projectile made from magnetic material passes by them. Each stage acts on similar principles …
weapons - What is a realistic maximum velocity of a coilgun round …
2021年2月28日 · An asynchronous coilgun relies on the projectile having a certain bunch of properties (you need to induce a current in it, to provide a magnet field for the main gun coils …
What are the advantages of a coilgun v.s. a railgun?
2015年10月16日 · A coilgun is more efficient and needs less maintenance, there is no need for as high currents, and the rail itself won't get damaged as easily. Coil guns however typically need …
What's more viable as futuristic infantry weapons, rail/coilguns or ...
2016年10月5日 · From a practical military standpoint, the development of a rail/coilgun weapon is actually preferable to a laser for ground combat. Lasers are line of sight weapons, require …
science based - How Powerful a Starship Coilgun Can We Make ...
2019年9月2日 · If your coilgun only wastes 1% of that energy in heating the projectile, 4.5 gigajoules of energy will be absorbed by it (a little over the energy released by the detonation …
How to chose the right voltage and coil (s) for coilgun?
Coilgun is a simple canon which attracts piece of metal into the core of the coil and then, when the piece of metal reaches midpoint of the coil, removes the power and leaves metal at it's …
capacitor - Switching high current and high voltage for coilgun ...
2014年8月25日 · I am building a multi-stage coilgun and need to be able to electrically switch 450V and over 100A somehow (virtually shorting large capacitor bank)... I've tried using IGBTs …
power electronics - When a coilgun fires, how does the energy ...
2025年1月19日 · For the coilgun ... there must be a loss in that cycle. What would it be? I wouldn't call it "loss" so much as "successful energy transfer". Because the point of a coilgun is to …
Best material and shape for small-arms railgun/coilgun amunition ...
Osmium is the densest but I understand it is rare and also really hard to work with. Tungsten is more tractable and so dense projectiles in RL are tungsten or depleted uranium if you can get …
physics - Tank armaments: railguns vs coilguns - Worldbuilding …
2019年11月14日 · Assuming power can be provided, what would be the more practical primary armament for a tank using an electromagnetic cannon? I am looking for a good compromise …