It's super simple. The projectile is loaded into the cylinder and held in place by a rubber seal or something like it. The cylinder then rotates into alignment with the barrel. Then the detonation chamber is inflated with pressurized gas and then ignited, blowing out the projectile at high speed. The cylinder then rotates out again and the whole thing repeats.
It should work, right? It seems simple enough… Although if I put one together you can bet that I'm firing it remotely! There's no way I'm getting in the way when it blows up (if I'm lucky my hand will end up like Mark Pauline's… that's the best case scenario).
I don't see why one couldn't build one of any size — can you imagine the fun you could have with one that was capable of lobbing thirty pound shells accurately at five hundred yards! It's basically a far more dangerous and powerful version of air powered potato and pumpkin guns. It's either that or mount a rail gun onto the Jeep.
I really want to build a big EMP device too… They don't look that hard, although they're a lot more dangerous than my hydrogun. But the last thing I need is getting one point twenty-one gigawatts blasting through my body, sending me back to November 5th, 1955….
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