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beamthegreat
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On 0:15 in the video above, you can clearly see an explosion just when the projectile in launched from the end of the barrel. However, as I understand it, railguns are purely powered by electromagnetic launchers and does not use any kind of explosives to launch the projectile.
Many comments on Youtube suggest that the explosion is caused by air friction/shock heating but I do not think that is the case since I have seen videos of vehicle undergoing atmospheric reentry and they do not "explode" like how the projectile in his video does. Also, the projectile is not glowing from the heat and no re-entry plasma trails are visible but I could be mistaken.