Could guns fire in an airless environment?

all oxygen needed to the combustion of the powder is already included inside. the bullet is only retarded by the air. thus the weapons would work well in the vacuum.

the principle of the gunpowder is totally similar to solid state rocket fuels. the only difference is that the rocket fuel burns slower and the gasses are allowed to eject through the nozzle, while in the firearm the gasses burn fast and push the bullet through the barrel. once the bullet leaves the barrel, the majority of driving power is lost.

due to the pressures reached during combustion, you can as well consider the ONE atmosphere on surface be equal to zero pressure of vacuum.

Yes, I believe they could. I am no scientist, but when a bullet shell is filled with gunpowder, and the bullet pushed in, it's airtight. No air can get in or out, and there is obviously a small amount trapped in there to begin with.

Once the hammer hits the shell, causing the gunpowder inside to ignite, the bullet will be pushed in the direction of the barrel. It will be projected out by the gunpowder, and will keep travelling at a very high velocity.

So yes, I do believe that a gun can be fired in an airless environment.

The answer is Yes, at least for a modern gun.

A modern gun is a series of sealed processes. All of the gases requires are generated during firing. If you look back at old episodes of Mythbusters there was actually an episode where they fired a shotgun, handgun and a rifle underwater. All weapons fired perfectly, the only problem was that they could not fire a second time because the cartridges could not escape properly and got stuck in the mechanism.

You can fire a hand gun under water, in space, or in a bucket of porridge, if you feel so inclined.

Gunpowder, modern smokeless or old fashioned black powder, contains its own oxydizer for combustion. Air has NOTHING to do with the powder burning. Old black powder was made with saltpetre, also known as potassium nitrate, which contains all the oxygen requred for ignition. Modern smokeless powder is made mostly from nitro cellulose, which is also its own oxydizer. Modern cartridge ammunition will not only work perfectly in the vacuum of space, but underwater as well if the cartridge is water tight. The main difference between the performance of black powder and modern gun powder is that black powder explodes when confined, where modern gun powder burns as a controlled rate,

Firing a gun has not something to do with air - as long because of the fact the firing mechanism can strike and ignite the cartridge, it rather is going to hearth. Why could you think of you like air to hearth a gun? Air has no result on the firing. Air in simple terms impacts the bullet by utilizing inflicting friction which reasons the bullet to decelerate. So in area with out air and no gravity, the bullet will go on enormously a lot perpetually (until eventually it hits some thing or is caught interior the gravitational container of a sizable merchandise which comprise a planet, moon, or asteroid).

A gun in a airless environment it can fire.

Because it not based on the gas. it is a push up behind the bullet. some bullets have some powder like titanium, phasphurus etc. it convert into gas very rapidly and expand to push the bullet. may be in airless environment if it fired, the bullet travel into the space slowly.

Yes. The oxidizer is in the primer and propellant charge.

The only problem is if you are also in a weightless, or low gravity situation; then you have that pesky Newton guy with "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".

Offcourse Yes because the gun powder in the bullet contaions

oxide chemical to give oxygen during burning of other material in gun powder

yes..it can fire under water..and there is no air in water..and why do you need to know this..its like being able to wipe your ash in a Earth quake ..whats the point..

There are guns that can fire underwater, so I would assume they could fire in space,