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This Is Definitely 100% Exactly How The Navy's Railgun Sounds
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Posted on 10/03/2014 2:36:34 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
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To: Chainmail
And you have to resort to extremes and mischaracterizations, but I expected no less from the beknighted.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:10:54 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Chainmail
Like there is no way to modulate the launching power... who says it can’t be dual purpose, dumb and smart projectile?
And Tunguska is traditionally called a strike, and caviling about its actual mechanism only points out that if your projectile is fast enough you only need to get moderately close to your target.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:17:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: chris37; All
That’s classified!!!
Shhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Oh wait...[snap]
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:24:54 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
To: HiTech RedNeck
What exactly is your degree in? "Modulating the launching power" doesn't address the insanely high electromagnetic/RF pulse - which is part of the launch mechanism for the rail gun - and as stated earlier, explosive fills, fuzes, guidance systems have no way of surviving. I don't really care what Tanguska was called - it was the release of a huge amount of energy from the detonation of a large meteorite when it hit the atmosphere at very high velocity. If the rail gun could achieve those velocities, the projectile would detonate at the muzzle.
Read my earlier post more slowly. Unlike you, I have spent a large part of my life in developing and using fire support systems. I have also spent quite a bit of time dealing with the naval engineers working on this system at Dahlgren.
And your expertise is what?
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:27:14 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Chainmail
You respond with a barrage of desperation about as badly aimed as you claim the railgun must be.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:28:44 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck; Chainmail
Did you two hear that???
Someone just shot a round of railgun stuff at ya...
They missed on purpose!!!
;-)
Timeout still works!!! My wife says so...
I’ll forgive ya this time...
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:29:48 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
To: Chainmail
Lots of posting ...
Lots of garbage ...
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:33:53 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: TexasGator
Really. So educate me; what did I say that is incorrect?
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:36:07 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Chainmail
If you’ve been ground crew on one of the Apollo shots, you automatically are a rocket scientist.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:39:57 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: stevie_d_64
I rode that roller coaster at Disneyworld, so I consider myself to be somewhat knowledgeable about rail gun projectiles. My advice is, don’t feed the projectiles a chili dog before you launch them, or you’ll see some projectile vomiting.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:40:41 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: HiTech RedNeck
I have been more than the ground crew: I have been one of the leading technologists for fire support development for the Marine Corps - after serving for 27 years in uniform in every artillery billet up to Battalion Commander.
You still haven’t described your background for your expertise.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:44:55 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: stevie_d_64
Your projectile needs to generate a plasma field in order to operate at the high mach velocities a rail gun promises, much the way that a new torpedo needs to generate super-cavitation via air bubbles. Unfortunately, it is impossible to generate a plasma field. Oh wait, it is possible.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:45:30 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Chainmail
Oh, the years in uniform most definitely add to the expertise!
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:47:31 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Chainmail
And, have you ever been technologist for RAIL GUN. If you have been one for other kinds of weapons, of course that counts even MORE.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:49:10 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Again, you didn’t read what I previously posted. I spent several years working with Dahlgren engineers - who were also working on the rail gun.
The serving in uniform part is useful, since it required me to use artillery for real and it included an in-depth education in ballistics.
Still haven’t heard anything about your background. Why so shy?
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:54:37 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: stevie_d_64
That was a guy whooshing and kabooming.
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posted on
10/03/2014 5:58:29 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: Chainmail
I have been more than the ground crew: I have been one of the leading technologists for fire support development for the Marine Corps - after serving for 27 years in uniform in every artillery billet up to Battalion Commander. Impressive, I was in artillery at one time, it was fun.
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posted on
10/03/2014 6:00:19 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: stevie_d_64
velocitas eradico?
It has been a long time since latin class, but I'll take a poke: Speed kills...
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posted on
10/03/2014 6:07:53 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: ansel12
Ah yes, fun. Noisy, smelly, hard-working, dangerous and sleepless fun. What jobs did you have in artillery Ansel? What type?
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posted on
10/03/2014 6:13:29 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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