It is ridiculous

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http://www.sportingshooter.com.au/overseas/4-8km-shot-takes-out-world-record-for-longest-shot

I like how it's aiming down lol

Almost 5km shot

http://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/yaffadsp/images/dmImage/StandardImage/lklk-e1519926783837.png

that massive riser

Well it would be useful as an anti-material weapon, although it may lose it's velocity quickl if it's too high velocity, a lighter bullet tends to have a lower BC and a very fast moving bullet exponentially loses more of it's velocity, as aerodynamic resistance increases exponentially the faster you go. So twice as fast means over twice as much aerodynamic resistance, and so on

I was thinking more along the lines of a bullet with such velocity and weight that you don't need to account for drop and flight-time as much.

Problably squared, so over 4 times the air resistance if twice as fast

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-468a39cd652b8c32540959641efcbe02.webp

That's an interesting idea and it would work really well out to a certain range before it inevitably dropped off

here you go

Speed record

Yesh

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4bd2c724d861d70a7c066a7a99a7adbc

it is bonkers

Those are two different rounds, but both held a record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.220_Swift

Eargesplitten acheived 4800FPS

That's feet per second

I think that's enough to do some damage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun

One of them uses a modified 12 guage shotgun shell, and another uses a 40mm in order to get up to 7 km/s xD

So who knew the fastest round fired was a 12 guage shotgun xD Basically it creates a shockwave through hydrogen to get the velocity

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-russian-company-plans-a-sniper-rifle-that-can-fire-1829496377

Wait until the light-gas gun is mounted on an M113 as an experimental weapon.

Basically they plan to stuff a core into the round that will detonate instead of deflagrating

Deflagration is just a fancy scientific name for "burns slower than detonation"

Spicy rifle

If this one will have a failure then the shooter won't be telling a story about it

I wonder what is the benefit of hyperspeed bullets?

Hunting Sonic?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/546763235051700314/683377855018565692/image0-17-3.png

If you're shooting at targets kilometres away, the flight-time could be halved, meaning there's less time for the target to move.

Would also help in reducing lead when engaging moving targets.

An advantage would be also in anti-aircraft fire, as you could get a bullet to intercept an aircraft far faster, and possibly get up higher

The main problem is that the bullet will lose this velocity quickly in our atmosphere, and it's difficult to maintain it at those speeds for more than a short period of time

Fun fact: russians had a rocket with a machinegun in it