Militaries around the world have been attempting to develop a functional, battlefield-ready railgun for over a century. Will it ever be pulled off?
But what exactly is a railgun? To answer that question, we must first ask another: what would happen if someone built a reallyAnd what if this gun was so big and so powerful that the sheer force of its projectile would be enough to sink even the sturdiest of ships? Well, you’d have an electromagnetic railgun.
But that’s all Hänsler's idea ended up being: a design. Hänsler’s railgun was never built. In spite of that, word quickly spread about this revolutionary new weapon design. The catch? Despite the weapon being theoretically possible, its sheer energy cost and operational requirements ensured that weapons of this type would not see development for quite some time.
The rails – where the railgun gets its name – are the lengths of highly conductive metal the current runs through to charge up the projectile. They’re essentially gigantic magnets, and as such, have a positive rail on one side, and a negative rail on the other.
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