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  2. Railgun - Wikipedia

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    Otherwise the rails, barrel, and all equipment attached would melt or be irreparably damaged. In practice, the rails used with most railgun designs are subject to erosion from each launch. Additionally, projectiles can be subject to some degree of ablation , and this can limit railgun life, in some cases severely.

  3. Rifling - Wikipedia

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    Rifling of a 105 mm Royal Ordnance L7 tank gun Conventional rifling of a 90 mm M75 cannon (production year 1891, Austria-Hungary) Rifling in a GAU-8 autocannon. Rifling is the term for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearms's barrel for imparting a spin to a projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.

  4. Rayl - Wikipedia

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    The rayl is also used for the characteristic (acoustic) impedance of a medium, which is an inherent property of a medium: [6] = Here, is the characteristic impedance, and and are the density and speed of sound in the unperturbed medium (i.e. when there are no sound waves travelling in it).

  5. Three Barrels - Wikipedia

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    Three Barrels is a brand of brandy by Raynal & Cie that has been claimed to be the best selling brandy in the United Kingdom [1] with annual sales of over 2.5 million bottles. [2] However, it is not included in the 2015 list of the "World's 10 largest brandy & Cognac brands" published by The Spirits Business. [ 3 ]

  6. Killing of Brian Thompson - Wikipedia

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    [2] [11] [45] The ghost gun consists of a 3D-printed lower receiver, metal slide, unserialized Glock 19 internals from a parts kit, including a threaded barrel, and uses a standard Glock magazine. [2] [46] [47] [48] The 3D-printed part's design was an iteration of "FMDA 19.2", a design released in 2021 by the libertarian group Deterrence ...

  7. Dad shoots, kills daughter’s ex-boyfriend after he breaks ...

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    The woman’s ex, James Douglas Rayl, started banging on the door of the home, and her father armed himself with a gun and ordered Rayl to go away, she told the sheriff’s office, the station ...

  8. Barrel - Wikipedia

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    Traditional oak barrels made by Chilean cooperage Tonelería Nacional Mackmyra barrels at Häckeberga Castle Modern stainless steel casks and kegs outside the Castle Rock microbrewery in Nottingham, England Wooden wine barrel at an exhibition in Croatia. A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is ...

  9. Polygonal rifling - Wikipedia

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    Conventional eight groove rifling on the left, and octagonal polygonal rifling on the right. Polygonal rifling (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ ɡ ə n əl / pə-LIG-ə-nəl) is a type of gun barrel rifling where the traditional sharp-edged "lands and grooves" are replaced by less pronounced "hills and valleys", so the barrel bore has a polygonal (usually hexagonal or octagonal) cross-sectional profile.