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This Is Why the Navy Can't Have Nice Railguns
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Posted on 03/01/2015 7:09:14 AM PST by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni
Oh, all they need is a wind turbine or solar panel and they could generate 25mw easily!
/sarc
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:15:51 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(Walker/Cruz 2016)
To: TurboZamboni
"...21st-century stealth battleship with electric engines, is powered by a 78-megawatt array of turbine generators. So, firing a rail gun once would take almost a third of the most advanced ship's whole capacity." LOL!
I guess when the ship runs out of "Megawatts" it's dead in the water by this author's logic.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:17:08 AM PST
by
sonofagun
(Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
To: sonofagun
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:18:33 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:19:09 AM PST
by
Slambat
To: TurboZamboni
They’re just gonna have to develop some Star Wars style power supplies then! ... :-) ...
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:19:23 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Erik Latranyi
They could do that. (mW vs. MW)
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:20:50 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: TurboZamboni
New capacitor technology could solve this.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:22:55 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: TurboZamboni
The word ‘can’t’ is the sticker.
People are really smart, and eventually can’t becomes can, in a free society at least.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:24:27 AM PST
by
lurk
To: TurboZamboni
"Velocitas Eradico" - or in layman terms, "Speed Kills".
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:29:42 AM PST
by
Leroy S. Mort
(The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
To: Slambat
we’re so broke we’ve resorted to using connecting rods for ammo!
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:30:04 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: lurk
People are really smart, and eventually cant becomes can, in a free society at least. And more so in the other kind, by necessity.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:32:36 AM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Leroy S. Mort
Next up, the Rail Gun Pistol:
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:34:03 AM PST
by
Leroy S. Mort
(The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
To: TurboZamboni
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:35:19 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Slambat
Where is all the flame coming from, if exposives aren’t involved in propulsion?
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:36:12 AM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Slambat
To: central_va
the original Dora the Explora!
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:36:35 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Slambat
I saw that video when it first came out, and calculated that the projectile oscillations you can see in the down range view (the one in which the shock front is so clearly visible) are at a rate of about 60 hz.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:42:01 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: 9thLife
Where is all the flame coming from, if exposives arent involved in propulsion? It's what's left of the arc that is formed across the rear of the projectile (or maybe across the entire projectile in this case) following it as it leaves the mouth of the launcher.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:50:33 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: mountainlion
Total conversion via matter - antimatter interaction would get the job done.
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posted on
03/01/2015 7:51:55 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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