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Pulse Rifle EM-Accelerator

 

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Ring Projectile - The pulse-rifle uses a 1-inch diameter 'ring' projectile, which is utilized to ride a wave of magneto- inductive current down the 4-inch barrel of the device. The ring is not a required shape, and conventional projectiles have also been successfully tested.

The Military - Previous attempts by the US Government to create lighweight EM-weapons have failed because they were attempting to fire heavy projectiles such as tank-shells.

Unfortunately, the efficiency of EM-weapons decreases with the square of the projectile weight, which means that while heavy projectiles are nearly impossible to accelerate, lightweight projectiles offer better acceleration than normal bullets.

  
Lightweight & High-Power
The pulse-rifle prototype can accelerate an aluminum-ring up to 100 feet per second using only AA batteries!
Electronic Accelerator
The pulse rifle uses a capacitor-discharge bank and inductive coil to create rapid magneto-inductive pulses!
Target Practice
This photo shows the target-practice area used by American Antigravity during pulse-rifle testing.
High Velocity Output
This motion-capture shot shows the EM-Accelerator punching through a plastic target at high-speed.
Precision Targeting
Despite the short barrel, the EM Pulse Rifle is capable of hitting a 1-inch target from over six-feet away!

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EM Accelerator in Action
Pulse Rifle Clip

This clip show the Pulse Rifle during testing, punching through targets at high-speed and destroying lightbulbs.

The video clip above is a composite of footage shot during American Antigravity's May 2004 testing of the device. Please note that the 1-inch diameter ring projectile is not seen due to its high-speed (over 100 fps).

2-Liter Target Practice

 

The pulse-rifle prototype was specifically designed with safety-features to prevent ballistic velocities. That means that while it breaks glass, its not fast enough to puncture skin. However, the photos above show it doing damage to a 2-liter cola-bottle during experimentation -- a side-effect of the high amount of kinetic mass carried by the projectile.

How Does It Work?
Ferrous barrel with coil and projectile mounted. One of the fast-discharge photo-flash capacitors. Dual-triggers -- one for charging, another for firing. Another clip of the barrel and coil apparatus. The barrel can be tilted on pivots for testing.
  

The EM pulse rifle is one of many related designs based on the idea of accelerating a projectile to high-velocities using electromagnetic energy. Unlike a railgun, which requires high input-energy and is based on a Lorentz-force rail-accelerator, the Pulse Rifle utilizes an inductive acceleration on a non-magnetic projectile.

In short, the device discharges a capacitor-bank through a magnetic coil situated directly behind a 1-inch diameter aluminum ring. The brief but powerful magnetic pulse generates an inductive-current in the ring, which then accelerates down the barrel at high speed. Information Unlimited is also testing a more powerful version of this design that fires a conventional projectile, but the ring has been used in this case because it has more surface area (and hence is less dangerous) than a smaller projectile is.

The pulse-rifle prototype is powered by 4 AA batteries, and requires about 1 minute to charge between each shot. It fires at about the same velocity as a BB-gun, and has a much greater efficiency than similar designs tested by the military. This particular protoype is not considered a weapon due to the low muzzle velocity and 1-minute charge-time.

Additional Info Unlimited Footage

These are links to online-footage from a Tech-TV presentation on Information Unlimited and the high-voltage / high-energy physics research of Bob Iannini. In addition to the footage, we've interviewed Iannini for his take on Antigravity and new energy technologies:

- Iannini Tech-TV Video (56k Dialup)
- Iannini Tech-TV Video (Cable/Broadband)
- Iannini Audio-Interview (WinMedia 9)
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- Visit Tech-TV Online!

Contact Information

To get in touch with Bob Iannini, email him at at: riannini@metro2000.net or call Information Unlimited at 603-673-4730.

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