Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.
If you were to fire a gun in space, what would happen to the bullet? At 9000km altitude, escape velocity is about 7.1km/s. A rifle's muzzle velocity is around 1km/s, so a bullet fired from a stationary position would either be caught in an orbit or eventually fall to Earth, depending on the direction of fire.
Gun: Yes. The oxidizer is within the gun powder, so a gun will fire in the vacuum of the Moon. The bullet will travel significantly farther, because it will fall slower and there will be no air resistance.
The ASM-DT amphibious rifle is an early example of such a weapon. First fielded by the Russian special forces in 2000, the folding-stock ASM-DT amphibious rifle is capable of firing two kinds of ammunition, both of 5.45 mm caliber: 5.45×39mm rifle cartridge (7N6 enhanced penetration variant) for above water use.
Thanks to the team at Smarter Every Day and The Slow Mo Guys, the AK-47 is also a way to learn about physics! Underwater, the bullet travels only about 5 to 6 feet (in the air, it can travel some 1,300 feet). That's neat if unsurprising; water is much denser than air and puts up greater resistance.
Should you ever find yourself underwater and needing to fire your duty weapon, a former US Navy corpsman and firearms blogger has shown that it will work. Andrew Tuohy posted a YouTube video that shows the discharge of a Glock 22 underwater, with the results being shown in slow motion.
Yes, because the explosive does not require air. In fact, most explosives do not require air!
Apparently, there are guns in space. Specifically, there are usually one or two handguns on board the International Space Station, NBC News Space Analyst Jim Oberg reports . The guns belong to the Russians, but "anybody has access to them," Oberg said. The guns are described as all-in-one weapons.
Even a bullet, fired straight up at the maximum speed a gunpowder blast can accelerate it to, will never leave the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. A combination of gravity and air resistance will slow it down until it reaches a maximum height, whereupon it will fall back down to Earth's surface.
No, you cannot hear any sounds in near-empty regions of space. Sound travels through the vibration of atoms and molecules in a medium (such as air or water). In space, where there is no air, sound has no way to travel.
But what of the average temperature of space away from the Earth? Believe it or not, astronomers actually know this value quite well: an extreme -270.42 degrees (2.73 degrees above absolute zero).
Bullets often lodge in roofs, causing minor damage that requires repair in most cases. Normally, the bullet will penetrate the roof surface through to the roof deck, leaving a hole where water may run into the building and cause a leak.
Escape velocity at surface of earth is 11.2Km/s. Escape valocity from a planet whose mass is the same as that of earth and radius 1/4 that of earth, is? Q. The escape velocity on earth is 11.2 km s−1.
Note that the escape velocity of the Sun (calculated above) is 615 km/sec, which is more than 50 times greater than the average velocity of H at the surface of the Sun.
Treaty Terms
The treaty forbids countries from deploying "nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" in outer space. The term "weapons of mass destruction" is not defined, but it is commonly understood to include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
The TP-82 (Russian: ТП-82) is an out-of-service triple-barrelled Soviet combination pistol carried by cosmonauts on space missions. It was intended as a survival aid to be used after landings and before recovery in the Siberian wilderness.
(1) After looking her over, Lucas informed Fisher that she could not wear her bra with the dress because "there are no [bras] in space." (2) According to Lucas, when the body becomes weightless in space, it expands, but the bra does not. (3) Lucas concluded that wearing a bra in space would end in strangulation.
The answer is that no, a body exposed to the vacuum of space wouldn't decay in the way that bodies decay on Earth. In fact, in outer space, you'd ended up being preserved quite nicely.
Explosions of stars in the universe are almost always spherical in shape, as the stars themselves are spherical. However, this explosion, which occurred 180 million light years away, is the most aspherical ever seen in space, with a shape like a disc emerging a few days after it was discovered.
It's ok to dry fire your GLOCK pistol, but we recommend using a snap cap or dummy round if you will be dry firing for a long period of time. What kind of ammunition should I use in my GLOCK pistol?
What Happens during a Dry Fire. When a Glock is dry fired, the hammer drops against the firing pin. You'll still hear a click, but there's nothing inside the chamber. Therefore, you won't hear a popping sound because there's no gunpowder ignited by the action of firing with no ammo in the gun.
A Glock can only be fired if the trigger is depressed, meaning accidental falls from holsters and other objects to the ground cannot, for example, cause a hammer to fly forward and impact the primer. Without human interaction, the three safeties, including the trigger safety, will prevent the handgun from firing.
Shooting in the rain causes bullets to impact lower than normal. It's simple, right? A bullet flies horizontally, raindrops hit the bullet from above, imparting their mass on it, causing the bullet to fall faster and impact the target lower.