The railgun in Halo was introduced to us in Halo 4. Let’s not mistake this with the MAC (Magnetic Accelerated Cannon) on starships, nor the gauss cannon found on some Warthogs.<\/p>\n The Asymmetric Recoilless Carbine-920\u00a0<\/strong>or Railgun is a “compact-channel linear accelerator that fires a high-explosive round at incredible speed, delivering kinetic and explosive force to both hard and soft targets alike”. \u00a0Alternately, it can also be described as an electro-magnetic projectile weapon.<\/p>\n Some technical specs for the Railgun are:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> The Halo 4 Railgun has no zoom feature while shooting. The projectile follows along dual channels (metal “rails”). These are charged by an electric current that flows through the magnetic rails. This interaction is what fires the projectile at high speed.<\/p>\n Though the handheld Railgun in halo 4 is labeled as “recoilless”, it actually has recoil, likely to show the weapon’s destructive force.<\/p>\n Fact:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In a report from CBS news\/Reuters by David Alexander, it’s stated that the U.S. Navy is planning trials for it’s railgun in 2016. This version of the railgun can fire a 23 pound projectile at seven times the speed of sound and can travel well over 100 miles. To break that down, the speed of sound is 1,125 feet per second or 767 miles per hour. Seven times that is 7875 feet per second (just slightly under 1 1\/2 miles per SECOND!) or 5,369 miles per hour. That is some POWER! Part of the reason for developing railgun technology is technical superiority as well as cost. The planned 23lb projectile for the sea-based railgun will cost about 25,000. This is vastly cheaper that the average 500K to 1.5 million dollars (US) per conventional missile in use today.<\/p>\n “Railguns use electromagnetic energy known as the Lorenz Force<\/a> to launch a projectile between two conductive rails. The high-power electric pulse generates a magnetic field to fire the projectile with very little recoil, officials said.”<\/p>\n “Current projectiles leaving a railgun have a muzzle energy of about 32 megajoules of force, said Rear Admiral Bryant Fuller, the Navy’s chief engineer. He said one megajoule would move a one-ton object at about 100 mph” Again, the current projectile is only 23 pounds versus the stated 2,000 pounds. So that’s just over 1% of the weight and 32 times of force. POWERFUL!!!<\/p>\n To illustrate this, the picture below shows the destructive force of an even smaller real-world projectile through a railgun. Though not said, the smaller projectile looks to be no more than a few pounds in weight. This is relative to the Halo 4’s projectile.<\/p>\n Check out this video of the real-world railgun in action! (link submitted by Kevin Armstrong-Thanks Kev!)<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vHS1ZiFJjB8<\/p>\n Summation<\/strong><\/span> Given the size of the projectile in the Halo 4 railgun, coupled with the power associated with the electromagnetic current, it is quite evident that the destructive force of the Halo 4 railgun is accurately depicted in game.<\/p>\n So not only is this tech possible, it’s REAL and right NOW!<\/p>\n Fact SOURCE LINK<\/a><\/p>\n -Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I happened upon some amazing news about a new Railgun that the U.S. military is testing. I had known that railgun technology had been around for a few years, but now it’s on the brink of actual use and not … Continue reading ![\"H4_railgun_trans\"](\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/H4_railgun_trans.png\")
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\nCharge Time: 2 seconds, lesser charge time will cause less damage<\/p>\n<\/a>Rear Admiral Matthew Kluder, chief of Naval Research has stated that the railgun has already gone through testing on the ground.\u00a0The above picture shows a prototype of the current version of the railgun set up in a testing lab to test it’s firepower.
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\n<\/a>Above shows the lab railgun’s length (in a fishbowl view).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>What you’re looking at above are SIX 1\/2 inch thick steel plates that have had a several inches wide hole PUNCHED through them.
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\nThe technology for the real-world railgun is very similar to the tech represented in Halo 4’s railgun. The major difference being that we in present time have not yet reduced the size of the gun itself for individual use.<\/p>\n
![\n<\/a><\/p>\nCheck out this video of the real-world railgun in action! (link submitted by Kevin Armstrong-Thanks Kev!)<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vHS1ZiFJjB8<\/p>\nSummation<\/strong><\/span>\nThe technology for the real-world railgun is very similar to the tech represented in Halo 4’s railgun. The major difference being that we in present time have not yet reduced the size of the gun itself for individual use.<\/p>\nGiven the size of the projectile in the Halo 4 railgun, coupled with the power associated with the electromagnetic current, it is quite evident that the destructive force of the Halo 4 railgun is accurately depicted in game.<\/p>\nSo not only is this tech possible, it’s REAL and right NOW!<\/p>\nFact SOURCE LINK<\/a><\/p>\n-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I happened upon some amazing news about a new Railgun that the U.S. military is testing. I had known that railgun technology had been around for a few years, but now it’s on the brink of actual use and not … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scienceofhalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-2-in-steel-plates-SIX.png\"){kind=link}