Ricky Chau

And then we fill a 30-06 cartridge with the same powder and stick it in the back.

And all we do is we have a solenoid that acts like a hammer of a gun that hits the back of the 30-06, and that's what fires a gun.

The primer on the cartridge, it lights the primer powder.

The primer powder burns, the flames go out the holes, and then lights the main charge.

The propeller starts to burn and it's in a breach which is in a sealed volume.

So as you create more burn gases, pressure builds up.

Then the pressure is gonna push on a piston.

And then so this piston start traveling due to the burning gases.

At some point you increase the pressure so high and then the gases escape into a tapered section and it acts just like a perfume nozzle so that you have gases going through and accelerates the gas and that accelerated gas then pushes on a little inch in diameter projectile.

And that's what gets launched at 800 per second.

Fire.

And then it goes down to the barrel, comes out of the gun, and it smacks the target.

And then it flies through some X-ray and laser diagnostics just to measure the velocity.

You know, like basically like two I-beams.

You break one beam, get a counter, break another beam.

That gives you your velocity.

I can smack plutonium all you want.

If I don't have diagnostics, all I've done is create nuclear waste.

Trust is not a feeling.

I make an effort of going out there periodically, giving these briefings to people so that they understand how their work impacted the overall program.