Incredible Gas Powered Vortex Canon
This vortex canon looks like a makeshift artillery piece built by an evil mad scientist. The super powered cannon creates a vortex of churning air or liquid caused by a rapid spiraling motion. This rapid spiral is then exerted in a forward motion through the barrel powerful enough to take down a brick wall. Basically, it’s like a mini tornadoes in a barrel.
This ‘weapon’ projects 200mph vortex rings generated from an explosive air-gas mix. The blast has enough force to knock down not only little huts of straw and sticks but a brick wall too in the simulated ‘Big Bad Wolf’ video below.
The video was captured at 1300 fps clearly shows the vortex pulse as it moves through the air with a sonic boom. Little straw huts or not…believe me, you wouldn’t want to be standing in its way. But man, how awesome would it be to own one!
For those of us without massive budgets to build our own can make a less powerful but still super cool smoke ring cannon. We have quite a few cannon hacks of our own in our gallery of airsoft and gun hacks:
December 15th, 2010
But the brick did not even have mud, so of course the top of it would fall off. it it was properly put together rebar included, I doubt it would go down.
But all in all an interesting cannon.