Has the electromagnetic gun technology been leaked?

The electromagnetic gun first appeared in front of the public in 20021year, and the launch test of the domestic electromagnetic gun was made public for the first time in the first program of "Zero Distance for Military Strategists". Either to keep a low profile or for military secrets, the electromagnetic gun fired not real shells, but fire-fighting bombs, which landed on the distant hills after being hit.

Several details caught people's attention during the launch. One is that there is no roar when launching, and the other is that there is no fire when launching. At present, the technical reserve of the United States does not have the conditions for developing electromagnetic guns. Although the United States has made some achievements in the research of electromagnetic guns in recent years, for example, the kinetic energy of electromagnetic guns is 32MJ and the speed reaches 2500 m/s, but it has always been trapped in problems such as orbital ablation and miniaturization.

Composition structure

Electromagnetic gun is a weapon that uses electromagnetic force to launch shells along the guide rail. It is mainly composed of energy, accelerator and switch. Energy usually uses devices that can store 10 ~ 100 MJ energy. At present, the energy sources used in experiments include batteries, magnetic flux compression devices and unipolar generators, among which unipolar generators are the most promising energy sources.

Accelerator is a device that converts electromagnetic energy into kinetic energy of shells, so that shells can reach high speed. There are two main types: rail gun accelerator powered by low-voltage DC monopole generator and coaxial synchrotron with discrete or continuous coil structure. A switch is a device that connects an energy source and an accelerator, and it can introduce a mega-ampere-level current into the accelerator in a few milliseconds. One of them consists of two copper rails and a slider that can slide in them.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Electromagnetic Gun.