Russia tests railgun that fires bullets at 3km/s

Scientists of the Joint Institute of High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of scientist and academician Vladimir Fortov have developed this product. This scientist has repeatedly emphasized that the railgun is indeed a promising weapon. This weapon project is also being actively developed in other countries.

For example, American engineers over the past decades have not been able to realize the plans that were laid out before them at the planning stage. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia could not afford to produce advanced weapons. However, the situation has changed now, so the results achieved have not kept the Russians waiting long.

It is known that scientists have achieved a 6-fold increase in warhead speed with the help of an electromagnetic particle accelerator. At present, it is known that experts have been able to push a 100-gram warhead to a speed of nearly 3km/s.

It seems that the bullet can easily penetrate durable metals thanks to such a large kinetic energy. Such results were achieved thanks to the construction of a powerful capacitive type electric accumulator. In addition, the testing of this railgun has been started through the support of a pulse induction storage.

The main problem for railgun designers in all countries was that the gun could not fire rapidly, because it took tens of minutes to reload. Therefore, the gun would not fire effectively.

However, Russian experts are working on solving this problem and have tested different types of energy storage that can quickly recover consumed energy, which allows the railgun to be fired faster.