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 No.986

What do we do about e guns, e cannons, drones and other electronic based weapons in future wars? How will these machines respond to tech like EMPs and multilayered radars?

 No.987

>e guns
>e cannons
my e sides

 No.988

>>987
Hey the first guns made weren’t great either
Just give the tech time to develop, I’m interested in this shit because when you can control the power of how fast and far a bullet can travel directly based off energy input this offers new opportunities for combat along with the lack of sound produced

 No.989

gunpowder is superior in every way

 No.990

>>988
I'm laughing at the ridiculous name "e gun".

 No.991

>>988
that is true, but until tech develops to match gunpowder then it's just a project.

 No.992

>>988
This is a stupid argument. We more or less know the limit of directed energy systems and other such junk. It's a mature technology and some technology just plain isn't possible.

 No.995

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>>986
>What do we do about e guns, e cannons, drones and other electronic based weapons in future wars? How will these machines respond to tech like EMPs and multilayered radars?
They will probably be outclassed. I think we may see a definite change in accepted balance of forces. Considering that a force properly equipped with SAMs in an actual war between somewhat equal forces air-power might be all but useless. If you consider the cost of a MANPAD vs a jet or helicopter the former become rather useless.

 No.997

>>989
>gunpowder is superior in every way
no it has a limited rate of expansion, which limits the ejection velocity of a projectile.
To add more speed, it might be useful to add an "e-gun" stage after the expanding gases stage.
the e-gun stage could be powered by converting recoil energy into an electricity pulse.

 No.1043

>>997
Gunpowder's rate of expansion is actually well above what most firearms get and there's certain ways to get them faster.
That's an interesting idea, but I am fairly certain that the recoil of most components will happen well after the bullet leaves the barrel.

 No.1071

>>995
MANPADs cannot shoot down aircraft at 30,000'. They're only useful for shooting down helicopters close to the ground.

 No.1072

>>1071
Vietnamese farmers with aks have shot down actual fighter jets
Stfu burger army equipment is overpriced trash just like every other product that’s ever been made in this shithole of a country

 No.1073

>>1071
>>1072
The point is an air force faced with an army with MANPADs will just fly higher than MANPADs or AKs can shoot them down.
>Stfu burger army equipment is overpriced trash just like every other product that’s ever been made in this shithole of a country
Burgerstan isn't the only country to make MANPADs.

 No.1084

>>1072
>Vietnamese farmers with aks have shot down actual fighter jets
But not at the rate needed to make fighter jets obsolete, yeah SAMs work well, but thye aren't precise enough to just destroy air forces, especially if the air force has radar jammers, decoys, and anti-radiation missiles.
>>1073
MANPAD units would idealy be in communication with SAM forces and interceptor aircraft to create an integrated air defense system, perhaps allowing a fighter jet to control the direction of manpad missiles to direct them to enemy aircraft. This idea would be ideal in high altitude environments such as mountains.

 No.1107

>>986
I always wanted to make an electrolaser but I don't know how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser

 No.1149

electrical engineer here. are you aware what pissant amounts of energy are stored in those caps compared to the powder load in even a 9mm cartridge?
the only "e guns" of any use are rail guns, and they're huge for a reason
>>988
>you can control the power
congrats anon you've reinvented artillery
>the lack of sound produced
air guns give you this too and are much simpler, cheaper and more powerful

 No.1160

>>1149
I thought that at first, but here are some back of the envelope calculations.

Here is a comparison with a 9mm parabellum, Let's say you have a carbine with a 0.5m barrel, muzzle velocity 400m/s, energy700 J.

Average velocity in the barrel is 200m/s, so it takes 1/400 second from firing to exiting the barrel. It puts 700J into the bullet in that time. Energy / time = power, so 700J / (1/400)s = 280000W. So a carbine puts out 280kW when firing.

Wikipedia says supercapacitors have specific power of 10W/g, so they're not powerful enough. Electrolytic capacitors are up to 100W/g, which means you need 2.8kg of electrolytic capacitors for the e-carbine. That sounds reasonable. 2.8kg of electrolytic capacitors can give up to 3000J according to Wikipedia. So if your e-carbine is only 23% efficient, this is doable.

If you want a full auto e-SMG, the capacitors can be recharged from a battery. If it does 600 rounds per minute, then the battery needs to put out 3000 x 10 = 30kW. This is also doable with a backpack size battery.

 No.1183

>>1160
pulse power applications typically use film caps, not electrolytics. but maybe this is just slow enough for electrolytics to work
>backpack size battery
practical! but actually you don't need that large a battery to store the required energy I think
I see Gun Jesus just released a video on just this topic. 3 kJ Gauss/coil rifle. unsurprisingly this thing is big. also
>muzzle velocity: 75 m/s
>2 oz projectile
meaning 175 J muzzle energy or just under 6% efficiency
I think the guy is way too optimistic on the progress possible in power electronics. there are fundamental physical limits to this stuff. chemical energy is just superior in every way. fun toy though
the one use-case I can see is making clandestine guns without having to involve energetic chemistry in any way

 No.1188

>>1183
I would point out that it's almost certainly possible to make an electrically fired gun that uses, ironically, gunpowder to provide the electrical power
>but why would you use gunpowder to power a motor
because gunpowder has certain limitations to velocity that you can get. The bullet cannot move faster than the speed of sound of the expanding gas directly propelling it and will approach that limit asymptotically. a railgun or coilgun does not have this same limitation.

 No.1192

>>1183
Why are they so inefficient compared to electric motors?

 No.1193

>>1188
>cramming a ~1 MW generator into the size of a gun
>still have the problem of acquiring and handling an explosive
anon I
>>1192
>Why are they so inefficient compared to electric motors?
good question. motors have had 200 years or so of development. we typically measure efficiency under constant load. most motors aren't very efficient under acceleration. easiest way to see why is to stall a motor. then it uses lots of electrical power but produces no mechanical power

I think the way to actually do an electrically powered gun is as an electrically powered air gun. have an air tank enough for a few shots and top it off with a small compressor. use a solenoid valve to fire. a bunch of motors or pneumatics to handle loading
quick calculation: 100 bar, 4.5 mm diameter 0.5 g air gun pellet, 1 meter barrel. pretend pressure is constant during firing
E = F*l = mv²
F = P*A = pi/4*d²
E = pi/4 P d² l = 160 J
v = sqrt(E/m) = 563 m/s
velocity is limited by speed of sound however, so a larger bullet is called for. let's take .50 BMG. GNU Octave:
P=100; d=12.7e-3; m=42e-3; l=1; E=P*100e3*pi/4*d^2*l, v=sqrt(E/m)
E = 1266.8
v = 173.67
to really get that .50 going you'd need a longer barrel or higher pressure. or increase d without increasing m
a sabot type system would maximize barrel diameter, possibly making it shorter. a 25 mm sabot holding a .50 could have a 25 cm barrel and still put out the same amount of muzzle energy

 No.1194


 No.1195

>>1194
I know about EPFCGs anon. would you want one as part of a gun 5 cm from your eyes?

 No.1198

>>1195
Is it a well-made gun?

 No.1199

>>1198
anon the way EPFCGs operate are by literally exploding

 No.1200

>>1199
So make it work with that.

 No.1201

>>1200
anon why tf would you even do that when you could just use regular powder cartridges? this is so retarded

 No.1202

GR-1 at the range

 No.1206

One word: Lasers
Good idea or just another bad pipe dream?
Even the Soviets dabbled into laser weaponization technology right before their fall. They even had a prototype going.

 No.1207

>>1206
Good idea.

 No.1209

>>1206
There's a (banned) lolbertarchist /pol/+etc. user who openly bragged and fedposted about using laser weapons.
You could probably do a ton of non-permanent or permanent damage with a laser gun.

 No.1210

>>1206
great for taking someone's eyes out
at MW power levels they're also great for taking out missiles
maybe there's a way to make something inbetween?

 No.1211

>>1209
Blinding laser grenade is way more dangerous than a laser gun in my opinion. Even modern aircraft still uses pilot visual. However it also violates dozens of war crimes.
>>1202
That looks unwieldy as all hell. Probably even harder to maintain in the field compared to the labyrinthine contraption of the G11. However a coil flechette launcher… that’s another different thing entirely.

 No.1212

>>1209
>lolbertarchist /pol/+etc
the guys is kind of a nutjob (someone going around blinding cops permanently with lasers kinda got to be) but I dont remember him posting any shit like that.

 No.1213

>>1211
>>1211
>Blinding laser grenade is way more dangerous than a laser gun
he posted some webm of his setup, it basically covered the whole area in front of him in blind grade lasers in a very wide angle. Kinda terrifying really.

 No.1214

>>1211
>Probably even harder to maintain in the field compared to the labyrinthine contraption of the G11
doubtful, its pretty mechanically simple, theres almost no moving parts. its the high grade electrical/electronic components that would be impossible to fix yourself, but having a few spare might be enough. Depend on their reliability.

>That looks unwieldy as all hell

I mean thats an explicit part of the conversation. Its still a prototype vastly inferior in capability to a gun. but first guns were inferior to crossbow/bows on many fronts.
What I see as valuable in the concept :
- low recoil
- no sound
- adjustable muzzle velocity
- easily use various ammo
- ton of space in the ammo to add whatever you fancy
- heavy projectile, good stopping power
- you can use the on board computer to help you aim
- you could conceivably have an auto aiming flechette round

honestly I think a railgun anti tank or anti air weapon would have been useful sooner because very high speed projectile have inherent useful applications that regular guns cant do, but its demands such power its prolly not technologically viable yet (not mentioning the whole wear of everything).

 No.1216

>>1214
Not only impossible to fix, but I suspect that during its early days the gun will not work out the important kinks like being weather proof or protection against the natural ruggedness of a modern battlefield. Hell to this day keeping something like an electronic watch completely water proof is difficult enough for simple diving.

A handheld or man-portable rail/coil gun won’t be viable in a long time. Due to the simple fact that our method of storing energy in batteries are just lacking in energy density adequate for such a weapon. However if rigged up to something like a ship nuclear reactor designed for long range artillery bombardment then it’s another story entirely. Even then you have to contend with the problem of insufficient materials used in the rails and coils that can burn out the gun itself trying to reach velocities that makes electronic guns superior to modern chemical propelled guns. Adjusting the speed to normal guns for naval weapons will see it be just a howitzer but finicky.

 No.1220

>>1188
>The bullet cannot move faster than the speed of sound of the expanding gas directly propelling it and will approach that limit asymptotically.
You can go faster if you use hydrogen. These guns get 27500 fps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun

What if the piston is pushed by a coilgun? That might make the coilgun more efficient because the piston doesn't have to move fast.

>>1216
>Due to the simple fact that our method of storing energy in batteries are just lacking in energy density adequate for such a weapon.

5.56mm NATO is about 1.8kJ/round. If an average soldier carries 180 rounds, that's 324kJ. That's the energy in a one pound battery. The problem is e-guns are inefficient and not powerful at the moment.

Explosives don't have that much energy, they just release it very fast. This is a comparison:

Nitroglycerin: 6.38 MJ/kg
TNT: 4.61 MJ/kg
Diesel: 43.1 MJ/kg
Best off the shelf lithium ion battery: 0.875 MJ/kg

 No.1221

Seems very inefficient

 No.1222

>I Tried to Use the GR-1 Anvil at the BUG Match…
the UX on this thing seems really bad. a better way would be to start charging automatically after each shot, maybe have a little beep to indicate charging is done. I also wonder if this has a dump load of some kind that can be used to discharge safely

 No.1241

>>1193
I had a bit more of a think on this and it's probably best to just have it function like a regular air gun but be self-cocking. a spring driven piston held by a sear is much simpler, safer and cheaper than a reservoir + solenoid valve
batteries hold more energy than pneumatic tanks do, and with BBs it's possible to use a hopper and dump out hundreds of shots quickly. the efficiency of the cocking mechanism could easily be in the 90% region. not sure what the pneumatic efficiency is. some energy would be lost to heating, and also due to excessive air use

 No.1250

>>1241
Nitro piston air rifles might be what you need. They can get up to 1500 fps.

 No.1251

>>1250
sure but they're not ~electrically powered~
unless you mean modding one so that it is. that would be interesting..

 No.1254

Electrothermal guns (not electrothermal-chemical) are easy to build at home and they are almost as powerful as a 9mm. Here's a 1kJ gun some guy built. That's 1kJ in capacitor, not projectile, but there are more powerful guns on YouTube.
<An electrothermal gun is an electrically powered weapon that uses electricity to resistance heat and vaporize a working medium into a high pressure high temperature plasma arc. This high pressure plasma accelerates a projectile down the barrel similar to an air gun. If you've ever seen videos of arc flash explosions or capacitor discharge exploding wires, that's what's happening inside the chamber. There is no gun powder anywhere, simply a small piece of aluminum foil to start the arc. Note that when googling electrothermal gun the wikipedia article only talks about electrothermal-chemical guns, that use the electrical explosion to ignite conventional propellant more rapidly, which is not what's happening here. This is purely electrical energy into heat into hot pressurized gas/plasma.

The problem with these seem to be making it automatic. The barrel gets filled with molten metal, so it can't make more than a few shots without cleaning.

 No.1255

>>1254
Heat dispersal might also become a problem. Traditional firearms get cooling from ejecting the spent brass case. These guns would need some kind of chamber cooling system to keep the temperatures manageable. There is no risk of ammo cookoff but the high temps might damage the structure of the gun.

As for molten metal, what about making the barrel and the ammo out of non-metal materials? Common graphite has a melting point comparable to tungsten and is super cheap. The ammo can be graphite or graphite sheathed lead (if pure graphite is not heavy enough).

 No.1256

>>1254
oh yeah, electrothermal guns are pretty cool. I went and looked for the cheapest (J/$) capacitor with at least 450V and 10µF I could find, came up with this:
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/epcos-tdk-electronics/B43707A5109M600/11611173 $126
>>1255
water cooling maybe? why non-metal for the ammo?
I can see sputtering/fouling being a problem here

 No.1257


 No.1258

>>1254
>>1257 (me)
it also strikes me that it might not be necessary to heat stuff to plasma temperatures. compare to a 9mm. 2400 bar in a small "chamber" (base of cartridge). getting that pressure in such a small volume just from heating would require 720,000 K. hence plasma. but we can also use a much larger chamber. how much is necessary to accelerate using constant pressure?
say we want 350 J, roughly what a 9mm puts out. let's use a larger chamber and longer barrel. I come up with 50 bar, 1.1 m barrel -> 357 J. but that's still 15,000 K necessary in that chamber. damn
it's really the barrel volume that makes these high temperatures necessary. there's not enough air molecules in there. maybe it's possible to use water instead? flash boil -> steam -> great volume expansion

 No.1263

>>1258
Water as propellant, instead of powder in the case, it's water. I like it.

 No.1278

>>1258
What if we go back to something like >>1220 or an airgun, but on the back side of the piston, we have the electrically generated steam driving the piston?

 No.1280

>>1278
yes that could work. you'd have to heat water to boiling, quickly
we should need about 1 g of water. 4.184 J/K plus 2257 J to vaporize it. 2.6 kJ total. dump this into a load with lots of surface area for the water to boil off of. maybe use steel wool

 No.1548


 No.1558

>>1548
There's a higher powered model out now, the GR-1 Anvil. https://arcflashlabs.com/product/gr-1-anvil/ There's also this one from another manufacturer. https://www.northshoresportsclub.com/coil-accelerator

All of these coilguns are inefficient because they have large gaps between the coils and ferromagnetic projectiles. Induction coilguns are the future and I think the easiest induction coilgun to build is the lateral disc launcher on this page. http://www.coilgun.eclipse.co.uk/coilgun_basics_3.html

 No.1563

>>1558
>There's a higher powered model out now, the GR-1 Anvil
if you look further up the thread you will see I posted the videos ian has done on that >>1222 >>1202
>http://www.coilgun.eclipse.co.uk/coilgun_basics_3.html
the Thompson ring launcher looks like it would work best
one benefit of induction guns is that you don't have to shut off the coils

 No.2346

<ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality
>ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This new design maintains the same muzzle velocity as the Anvil (200-250 fps / 60-75 m/s) but uses smaller projectiles (5/16" armatures). It is far better handling, with the balance much improved by having a single large capacitor mounted at the rear and a battery directly under the grip. That battery is also now a commercial off-the-shelf rechargeable lithium-ion type.

 No.2371

>>2346
I know the muzzle velocity is shit, but can it do some damage? What if you sharpened the armature, could it kill someone?

 No.2372

>enemy uses a bunch of e-guns
>deploy EMP
>roll in with traditional firearms
seems like giving yourself an unnecessary weakness tbh

 No.2380

I'm not too good with nuclear weapons, but can't you make a nuclear-antimatter gun out of an atom smasher particle accelerator that you can make at home simply out of a Tesla coil, an rf bottle ion source and a vacuum beamline or alternatively you can use a Cockroft-Walton supply to produce the needed reactions, which the Tesla coil is there to help you control the energy. You would need some conductors, semiconductors, lasers and computers to build a freaky Quantum gun that clones each bullet and spits out u235 bullets at rapidfire - all of which are clones of the same bullet via Quantum cloning through the use of a Quantum Circuit. I don't know what the end result will look like but it should be a pretty terrifying weapon that relies on reflection/refraction and lasers to reload from a drum magazine. It conserves lots of energy needed to make large antimatter weapons by cloning one to use the rest.

Anyone better at engineering, mechanics/quantum mechanics and muclear physics feel free to step in. I'm clueless when it comes to this subject.

 No.2381

>>2380
How much money do you have?
>Scientists claim that antimatter is the costliest material to make.[77] In 2006, Gerald Smith estimated $250 million could produce 10 milligrams of positrons[78] (equivalent to $25 billion per gram); in 1999, NASA gave a figure of $62.5 trillion per gram of antihydrogen.[

 No.2382

>>2381
You can make a particle accelerator at home. It's called a betatron. It's just everything else involved and making a practical weapon out of it that matters.

 No.2390

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>>2371
>can it do some damage?
stand in front of one and find out :^) I'd say the answer is yes
>>2372
>le emp meme
>what is emc?
>>2380
>Quantum gun that clones each bullet and spits out u235 bullets at rapidfire - all of which are clones of the same bullet via Quantum cloning through the use of a Quantum Circuit

 No.4050

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Japan has recently released footage of their new electromagnetic railgun design. The projectile is clearly based on APFSDS and it looks like it might actually be combat usable.
https://topwar.ru/228437-japonija-nachala-ispytanii-relsotrona-na-korable-nositele.html

 No.4051

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 No.4052

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Gauss Rifles, like coilguns and railguns, it uses electro-magnetic force to fire caseless ammunition.
https://archive.ph/N96NA

 No.4053

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https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/11/23/russia-is-starting-to-make-its-superiority-in-electronic-warfare-count
>Ukraine discovered in March that its Excalibur GPS-guided shells suddenly started going off-target, thanks to Russian jamming. Something similar started happening to the JDAM-ER guided bombs that America had supplied to the Ukrainian air force, while Ukraine’s HIMARS-launched GMLRS long-range rockets also started missing their targets. In some areas, a majority of GMLRS rounds now go astray.
>Even more worrying has been the increasing ability of Russian EW to counter the multitudes of cheap unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that Ukraine has been using for everything from battlefield reconnaissance and communications to exploding on impact against targets such as tanks or command nodes.
>Ukraine has trained an army of some 10,000 drone pilots who are now constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with increasingly adept Russian EW operators. The favoured drones are cheap, costing not much more than $1,000 each, and Ukraine is building enormous quantities of them. But losses to Russian EW, which either scrambles their guidance systems or jams their radio-control links with their operators, have at times been running at over 2,000 a week. The smitten drones hover aimlessly until their batteries run out and they fall to the ground.
>Neither hardening them against jamming nor investing them with artificial intelligence to fly without a live link to a human operator are feasible options yet, at least for mini-drones. Quantity still wins out over quality, but Russia may have an advantage there too. The skies over the battlefield are now thick with Russian drones. Around Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers estimate that Russia is deploying twice the number of assault drones they are able to.

 No.4076

I don't know about these weird electric firing mechanism but the idea I had was a rifle with a barrel that adjusts itself automatically to aim for heatsignal. An autoaim of sorts. Also maybe with a camera as a scope that shows what it's seeing zoomed in, you could use this to aim without having to lay your head on the rifle and practically aim and shoot arround cornoers by only exposing your hands and the rifle.

 No.4079

>>4076
That's such an easy method to cause friendly fire. You'd need to have an identification system as well.

 No.4085

>>4079
to go into further detail, there would be a button and a screen that shows what the camera is seeing, you would have to hold the button to make the barrel adjust itself, and if your targets are mixed in with friendlies just don't hold the button and try firing without the autoaim or not fire at all at friendlies, idk

 No.4129

>>4053
https://topwar.ru/231286-rabotu-rossijskih-sistem-rjeb-v-sevastopole-vidno-iz-kosmosa.html

Apparently Russian Electronic Warfare and jamming is so strong that it's visible from satellites. It's part of the reason AWACs and Global Hawk drones are used by NATO to support Ukrainian operations for missile strikes in Russian territory.

The EW environment of the war means a lot of FPV drones on both sides use analog systems that are grainy as shit, since they're more resistant to jamming. Analog is also cheaper and it helps that drones are designed like a more advanced RC system that is resistant a lot because of the need to operate in areas like cities where Wi-Fi and other interference is everywhere. On top of that non-standard frequencies are used as back ups. Antennas, range extenders/repeaters and other relay systems are also used to actually make any sort of operations possible.

 No.4131

>>4129
>>4129
>Apparently Russian Electronic Warfare and jamming is so strong that it's visible from satellites
I'm fairly certain that a lot of that is due to inexperienced EW troops heavily jamming both Russian and Ukrainian stuff, as well as the relatively small size of the battlefield relative to the amount of EW weaponry


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