Is it possible to launch a bullet over 2000mph?

[LDHunter]

I never converted feet per second to miles per hour until recently when I was bored and googling around.

I decided to convert 3000 feet per second to miles per hour and came up with 2045.455mph!

Sounds a lot faster when we convert it huh?

Golly gosh... That's even faster than my F-150 Raptor... LOL

So I guess I answered my own question didn't I?

I also find it pretty amazing that we can repeatedly launch bullets at that speed and still get those bullets to land in a tiny group waaaaaaay out there over and over with amazing consistency.... Sometimes I just sit back and say WOW!!! It doesn't seem possible does it when you get right down to it?

 

[del2les]

I never converted feet per second to miles per hour until recently when I was bored and googling around.

I decided to convert 3000 feet per second to miles per hour and came up with 2045.455mph!

Sounds a lot faster when we convert it huh?

Golly gosh... That's even faster than my F-150 Raptor... LOL

So I guess I answered my own question didn't I?

I also find it pretty amazing that we can repeatedly launch bullets at that speed and still get those bullets to land in a tiny group waaaaaaay out there over and over with amazing consistency.... Sometimes I just sit back and say WOW!!! It doesn't seem possible does it when you get right down to it?

Now, think about a large aircraft that can travel at sustained Mach 3 - SR 71 Old F15 could reach 2.5 Mach
Then think about a large spacecraft that reaches earth's escape velocity at 17,500 mph.
THEN, think of meteors that approach at 50,000fps!

Bullets @ 3,000fps aren't so fast after all.

 

[Wedgy]

I find the bullet RPM to be more surprising, some around 300,000 RPM

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

I find the bullet RPM to be more surprising, some around 300,000 RPM

Thats why you need to match the bullet to the twist. Some bullets can't handle the rpm due to the metallurgy and come apart when spun too fast.

 

[Wallrat]

The Military asked Weatherby to see how fast they could push a bullet. If I remember correctly , it was something like 10,000fps.

 

[Aussie Hunter Steve]

I never converted feet per second to miles per hour until recently when I was bored and googling around.

I decided to convert 3000 feet per second to miles per hour and came up with 2045.455mph!

Sounds a lot faster when we convert it huh?

Golly gosh... That's even faster than my F-150 Raptor... LOL

So I guess I answered my own question didn't I?

I also find it pretty amazing that we can repeatedly launch bullets at that speed and still get those bullets to land in a tiny group waaaaaaay out there over and over with amazing consistency.... Sometimes I just sit back and say WOW!!! It doesn't seem possible does it when you get right down to it?

 

[P7M13]

If you could launch your F150 Raptor to that same spec, you'd be donating (a.k.a liquefying) your organs to the G-force.

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

The Military asked Weatherby to see how fast they could push a bullet. If I remember correctly , it was something like 10,000fps.

6,818 MPH
or Mach 8.9
or 799,979 RPM (13,333 RPS) with a 1:9 Barrel Twist

 

[LDHunter]

LOL.... Don't you know that FORD stands for First On Race Day?

I thought my Raptor was fast until I pulled up beside a Roush F-150 Nitemare! I asked if it was fast... He laughed and said it was waaaaaay faster than my Raptor. When the light changed he left me wondering what happened! WOW!

 

[Chamberman]

The Military asked Weatherby to see how fast they could push a bullet. If I remember correctly , it was something like 10,000fps.

The .30-378 was originally designed by Roy Weatherby as an anti-personnel/anti-materiel military cartridge for a government contract.[4] The cartridge was created by necking down the .378 Weatherby Magnum to accept a .308 in (7.8 mm) diameter bullet. The United States Army's Redstone Arsenal requested a rifle cartridge that could develop 6,000 ft/s (1,800 m/s) for the effects of light bullets against armor. The .30-378 Weatherby Magnum was able to attain over 5,000 ft/s (1,500 m/s). Using a slower burning and denser propellant, the .30-378 Weatherby Magnum surpassed the US Army's requirement of 6,000 ft/s (1,800 m/s).[5]

 

[Wallrat]

What is the world's fastest bullet (including anti aircraft) and how fast is it?

Answer (1 of 4): The weapons which which I’m familiar, generally clock near 3000 feet per second. The range for “normal” weapons is going to be 700 fps to, maybe, 6000 fps; that would be a .22 target round and the main gun on a tank. The US Air Force built a rail gun that shot a one pound projec...

www.quora.com

Here's a moderately interesting link with some numbers.

 

[762x51]

I also find it pretty amazing that we can repeatedly launch bullets at that speed and still get those bullets to land in a tiny group waaaaaaay out there over and over with amazing consistency.... Sometimes I just sit back and say WOW!!! It doesn't seem possible does it when you get right down to it?

i agree, it is amazing. it's crazy how far technology has come to be able to produce results like that. but keep in mind that since the dawn of man, we have spent more time/research/money figuring out the most efficient way to kill other humans and animals than we have anything else.

 

[762x51]

oh and your thread got me thinking about the voyager 1 space probe for some reason. i think i read somewhere that it was the fastest man made object. i think it's going 10 miles a second if i remember right. someone correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[Chamberman]

What is the world's fastest bullet (including anti aircraft) and how fast is it?

Answer (1 of 4): The weapons which which I’m familiar, generally clock near 3000 feet per second. The range for “normal” weapons is going to be 700 fps to, maybe, 6000 fps; that would be a .22 target round and the main gun on a tank. The US Air Force built a rail gun that shot a one pound projec...

www.quora.com

Here's a moderately interesting link with some numbers.

Rail gun projectile= 3 KM/S= 6,710.80887616 MPH