This coilgun 1.5kJ is shown aiming into a ballistic pendulum with a can as the target.
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The power is sufficient to go through the can. The centre barrel is a brass tube with longitudinal split to prevent eddy currents. Care is needed as this can shoot backwards with the wrong combination of projectile size and starting position. I was getting 60 feet/s (20 m/s) calculated from 4.3 sec flight vertically. Compare this with a handgun at 600 feet/s (200 m/s) and it is not really a ‘gun’. This is a simple single stage gun. In contrast to the railgun it is almost silent in operation.
This is the world arsenal of proper hand held coil guns.
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Photo Date: 2002