FREE newsletter is out of this world! Get the biggest, brightest and weirdest stories straight to your inboxChina has showcased its military might in a video demonstration of its soldiers using high-tech coil guns to punch through wood and steel without a sound.
Futuristic coil guns use electromagnetic propulsion instead of gunpowder, making them much quieter that conventional guns that use an explosion to propel bullets.In coil guns, conducting coils are wound around a tube (the barrel) and when a current passes through it creates a magnetic flux through the centre.The electromagnetic force of the coils attracts and launches the projectile – as shown in this amazing footage.In the clip, Chinese soldiers demonstrate the coil guns on several.
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