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An air vortex cannon is a toy that releases doughnut-shaped air vortices — similar to smoke rings but larger, stronger and invisible. The vortices can ruffle hair, disturb papers or blow out candles after travelling several metres. An air vortex cannon can be made easily at home, [1] [2] from just a cardboard box. [3]
Quad-cannon Z-5 installation by the design bureau of Plant No. 88 from 1944 to 1945. Did not go into production. An automatic mountain-range anti-air cannon (plans being approved on March 1, 1940) with a planned weight of less than 650 kg, a three-leg carriage, fed by 20-round magazines and towed by four horses or disassembled into 7-8 backpacks.
Rocks being thrown in 2005 Belize unrest. An improvised weapon is an object that was not designed to be used as a weapon but can be put to that use. They are generally used for self-defence or if the person is otherwise unarmed.
Dynamite gun, any of a class of artillery pieces that use compressed air to propel an explosive projectile; FN 303, a semi-automatic less-lethal riot gun; Holman Projector, a naval anti-aircraft weapon; M61 Vulcan, a hydraulically, electrically, or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon
The highest projectile speed recorded from a potato cannon is 933.3 m/s (3,060 ft/s) (approximately 2.7 times the speed of sound) with a 16.6-gram (256 gr) 20 mm plastic slug from a hybrid using a 20 MPa (2,900 psi) pre-ignition mixture of air and propane.
Air cannon may refer to: Air blaster, a de-clogging device with a pressure vessel and triggering mechanism; Air cannon (mechanics), a device used for marine reflection and refraction surveys; Air vortex cannon, a toy gun that fires air vortex rings; Vortex ring gun, a non-lethal weapon that fires gas vortex rings; Air Cannon (Mario), a plot ...
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Utron Inc.’s 45mm gun. A combustion light-gas gun (CLGG) is a projectile weapon that utilizes the explosive force of low molecular-weight combustible gases, such as hydrogen mixed with oxygen, as propellant.