To: Jonty30
Yes.You would not to expend a spent cartridge from the breech.You can develop a railgun rifle.
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4 posted on
03/20/2012 10:11:45 PM PDT by
U-238
To: U-238
Yes, but that shell casing is a convenient, "throw-away" heat sink.
Something the caseless cartridge experimenters learned.
To: U-238
I think Newton’s third law of something pushing back with the same force that it pushes forward could be a problem as well.
8 posted on
03/20/2012 10:33:55 PM PDT by
Jonty30
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To: U-238
You would not to expend a spent cartridge from the breech.You can develop a railgun rifle. You may end up expending a power supply though.
A use once and discard capacitor may be the power supply of choice for a rail gun.
Capacitors are able to discharge much more quickly than batteries and so would be a preferable source of portable power for a rail gun.
14 posted on
03/21/2012 12:18:14 AM PDT by
Pontiac
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