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I wonder why I never heard about this idea attempted, a bullet with a simplistic jet engine.
Bear me out, it sounds more complicated than it sounds, this idea would have no moving parts.
Ok we all know about the Gyrojet rocket bullets, but with a jet engined bullet half the propellant would be from the air. Imagine a bullet with an air passage throiugh the center, but a venturi, compression zone and an expanmsion chamber out the end. The outside cylinder could be the fuel tank, the venturi would be the fuel supply mechanism (atomizer), the compression chamber would just be a chamber to compress the fuel air mixture enough to make it ignite and the expansion chamber could just be a conical shape out the back.
I figure a sabot would be used to fire the bullet to supersonic speed ouit the barrel and would also act as the plug of the fuel inlet until the bullet is fired.
Some liquid fuels have much more explosive or propelling potential than smokeless powders. For insance, I read somewhere that 60 pounds of gasoline has the same explosive potential as a thousand pounds of smokeless powder.
A jet bullet may be juist an academic excersise or just a cool experiment with no practical application, but what if it did have one like a high kinetic energy projectile that does not cause undue recoil upon the shooter, or extreme range bullets that can maintain high velocity over longer distances?
Bear me out, it sounds more complicated than it sounds, this idea would have no moving parts.
Ok we all know about the Gyrojet rocket bullets, but with a jet engined bullet half the propellant would be from the air. Imagine a bullet with an air passage throiugh the center, but a venturi, compression zone and an expanmsion chamber out the end. The outside cylinder could be the fuel tank, the venturi would be the fuel supply mechanism (atomizer), the compression chamber would just be a chamber to compress the fuel air mixture enough to make it ignite and the expansion chamber could just be a conical shape out the back.
I figure a sabot would be used to fire the bullet to supersonic speed ouit the barrel and would also act as the plug of the fuel inlet until the bullet is fired.
Some liquid fuels have much more explosive or propelling potential than smokeless powders. For insance, I read somewhere that 60 pounds of gasoline has the same explosive potential as a thousand pounds of smokeless powder.
A jet bullet may be juist an academic excersise or just a cool experiment with no practical application, but what if it did have one like a high kinetic energy projectile that does not cause undue recoil upon the shooter, or extreme range bullets that can maintain high velocity over longer distances?