Sci Fi gun turned into reality

[Silentpoet]

 

[holyjohnson]

remember to never, ever point your EMP accelerator pulse fired Magnetic capacitor rifle at anything you don't plan on disintegrating Folks.

[janice6]

It's interesting that if you were near the battlefield (NEAR) you could use a magnetometer/gradiometer to know when/where someone was shooting, and with proper electronics, you could know their location.

One of my Research products was a Gradiometer/Magnetometer that would measure the distortion in Earths field due to an "object" and locate metallic objects at a "great" range and tell you exactly where they were.

A very simple version of my project would do the same to locate the shooter.  Given that the Electromagnetic gun was "quiet" it still wouldn't protect the shooter from an adversary.

[Maser]

Make a real life version of the BFG9000 and then I'll be impressed. 

[Batesmotel]

1 hour ago, janice6 said:

It's interesting that if you were near the battlefield (NEAR) you could use a magnetometer/gradiometer to know when/where someone was shooting, and with proper electronics, you could know their location.

One of my Research products was a Gradiometer/Magnetometer that would measure the distortion in Earths field due to an "object" and locate metallic objects at a "great" range and tell you exactly where they were.

A very simple version of my project would do the same to locate the shooter.  Given that the Electromagnetic gun was "quiet" it still wouldn't protect the shooter from an adversary.

Wow!

[MO Fugga]

8 hours ago, Maser said:

Make a real life version of the BFG9000 and then I'll be impressed. 

Oh yesssssss!

[norton]

Ian has a great channel.  He is the gun Jesus.  

[Maser]

1 hour ago, norton said:

Ian has a great channel.  He is the gun Jesus.  

 

Yup!

 

[Silentpoet]

16 hours ago, janice6 said:

It's interesting that if you were near the battlefield (NEAR) you could use a magnetometer/gradiometer to know when/where someone was shooting, and with proper electronics, you could know their location.

One of my Research products was a Gradiometer/Magnetometer that would measure the distortion in Earths field due to an "object" and locate metallic objects at a "great" range and tell you exactly where they were.

A very simple version of my project would do the same to locate the shooter.  Given that the Electromagnetic gun was "quiet" it still wouldn't protect the shooter from an adversary.

Counter measures always emerge a bit after new weapons.  Taken to the extreme future of Dune that is why they all use bladed weapons because shielding technology is so advanced that projectiles or energy weapons are rendered near useless.  I would counter emp detectors by just having emp generators placed randomly to present false positives.