"Military Andi Wei Face" by Mecha 888
▲The whole picture of the cannon body part of the new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun developed in China (picture from: network)
Electromagnetic cannon is one of the types of contemporary new concept artillery, a new type of ultra-high initial velocity electromagnetic launcher that does not rely on chemical energy but relies on electromagnetic energy to fire projectiles. In principle, it is mainly the use of the electromagnetic force of the moving charge or current-carrying conductor in the magnetic field, accelerate the projectile in its gun chamber, so as to remove the projectile from the muzzle, and compared with the traditional chemical energy gun, the main advantages of the electromagnetic gun are fast rate of fire, long range, high accuracy, small muzzle characteristics at launch, which is conducive to enhancing its own concealment, etc., and the cost of launching a single projectile is also low.
▲ The Electromagnetic Gun Launch Test previously conducted by the United States (Picture from: Network)
It is precisely because of these advantages possessed by electromagnetic guns that they have always been valued by many military powers. Like the United States, Russia and Japan, they have invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources in the field of electromagnetic artillery in recent years, and the main purpose is to preempt the opponent to possess this epoch-making weapon, so that they can win a greater technical advantage than potential opponents in the military field. For example, the U.S. previously tested shipboard electromagnetic gun that can be used in naval surface warships can make the projectiles fired fly at a maximum speed of Mach 6 for about hundreds of kilometers.
▲ The fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun uses a truck chassis with good maneuverability (picture from: network)
In addition to the great potential for military applications, electromagnetic guns are now being developed in the hands of some peace-loving countries and are used for disaster relief and rescue operations such as fire fighting, for example, a few days ago, a new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic guns made by China appeared in CCTV reports. From the information disclosed by CCTV at present, this new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Group is actually a fire extinguishing bomb launch system that adopts the chassis of the truck and applies the principle of electromagnetic launch, in essence, it can also be seen as a self-propelled low-speed electromagnetic gun that mainly launches unpowered fire extinguishing bombs and has good mobility.
▲ The moment when the fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun fire extinguishing shell is fired (picture from: network)
Compared with the fire extinguishing gun that generally uses chemical energy artillery, this new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun, due to the use of electromagnetic launch principle, does not need to use propellant when firing fire extinguishing shells, and there will be no fire and roar, which is safer and more reliable to use, and the surrounding environmental impact is very small. At the same time, because they all belong to the electromagnetic gun, therefore, the new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun itself also has the same characteristics as the general military electromagnetic gun, such as fast rate of fire, high accuracy and low launch cost, of course, because it is mainly used for fire extinguishing, therefore, the range of this new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun will only meet the needs of fire extinguishing, and will not be too far.
▲Fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun can play a very positive role in forest fire extinguishing and other fire extinguishing actions in the future (picture from: network)
In the future, once the technology of this new generation of fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun is more mature, it can be widely used in fire extinguishing operations such as forest fire fighting. In this way, the fire extinguishing efficiency can be better improved, and the personal safety of firefighters can be better ensured. At the same time, behind the successful research and development of this fire extinguishing electromagnetic gun, it also shows that as long as the country has needs, similar technologies can be quickly used in a variety of military or civilian fields, and this also seems to indicate that China's relevant technology accumulation in the field of electromagnetic guns should be very mature.