The Navy’s Electromagnetic Railgun Is Both Alive and Dead
Its still destroying the rails when firing then?<p>Last time i checked this was the problem indicated- making a rail replacement necessary any x-shots, and erasing the saved volume and weight on ammonition nearly completely.<p>So what about the obvious TRIZ sollutions?<p>Make the Rail replaceable? As in build it from a substance that can be recoolected and swiftly reshaped on the fly into a new rail? Some sort of conducting ice that only last long enough to keep the current flowing and the projectile wagon on the rail on its way out?<p>How about a entirely diffrent approach - seperating rail and conducting?
As in, two laser-created plasmachannels with non-conducting rails?<p>Has anyone observed this project closer?