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Re: Best motor/gearing option to drive a shooter?

Note that with any no-slip one-sided design, the tip will have to be going twice as fast as the desired exit velocity, since half of the imparted velocity must go into spin. So even if we only need a 70mph launch, the shooter would need to be going 140mph.

Add in a second side, however, and that changes entirely...