The DOOM Plasma Rifle - A Technical Analysis
2,260Is the Doom Plasma Rifle technically feasible, or is it just Sci-fi nonsense? In this analysis we will try to figure out the technology behind the Plasma Rifle, and how it could be implemented in the real world.
Disclaimer:
This video tries to explain the operation of a fictional weapon with real world physics. Some concepts are vastly simplified and some bold assumptions are made.
Referenced scientific articles/Further reading:
- Injection of a High-Density Plasma into the Globus-M Spherical Tokamak (https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:37030522)
- A Critical History of Electric Propulsion: The First Fifty Years (1906-1956) (https://mae.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/ChoueiriHistJPC04.pdf)
- A TOROIDAL PLASMA GUN (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7fq7s1tr)
- COAXIAL PLASMA GUN IN THE HIGH DENSITY REGIME AND INJECTION INTO A HELICAL FIELD 2 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37458757_Coaxial_Plasma_Gun_in_the_High-Density_Regime_and_Injection_into_a_Helical_Field)
- Compact toroid formation, compression, and acceleration (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.860681)
- EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE OF COAXIAL PLASMA GUNS (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19660019924/downloads/19660019924.pdf)
- Performance of Hydromagnetic Plasma Gun (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1705989)
- Shiva Star - Marauder Compact Torus System (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224274894_Shiva_Star_-_Marauder_Compact_Torus_System)
00:00 Introduction
00:29 What is Plasma?
01:19 What Ammunition is Used?
01:40 Energy Consumption
03:17 Launching the Plasma Bolt
04:48 Intermission
05:12 The Donuts
06:16 Creating Donuts
07:24 Real World Use
08:34 Intermission 2
09:32 Real World Use Part II
09:48 Real World Plasma Weapons
10:39 Doom Plasma Rifle vs. Real World Plasma Weapon
11:09 Outro
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