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US Navy will field 100 kilowatt or stronger lasers and ten shot per minute railguns by 2020
nextbigfuture.com ^
| 07-28-2015
| Author: Brian Wang
Posted on 07/31/2015 1:43:44 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
A friend of a friend works on the rail gun project....ten shots per? WOW.
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:45:57 PM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: Red Badger
And China will have them within 12 months of that.
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:47:56 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: C. Edmund Wright
I put railgun down on a scrabble board in high school.
The other players would not accept it as a word.
Bet they feel pretty dumb now huh?
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:49:08 PM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Red Badger
“Ten shots per minute”
Let’s see.
There are what, 365 seconds in a minute.
So if you divide 365 by 10, you get.....
Ummmmm....
More than nine shots a minute.
Uncle Dave could drink that fast, but he has a wooden leg.
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:51:39 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Red Badger
Will we still have a fleet by 2020?
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:53:29 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: rktman
Probably depends on who is POTUS.
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:54:04 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: blueunicorn6
I think somebody messed with your weights and measures handbook.
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:54:18 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: blueunicorn6
You clock is broke.
1 minute has 60 seconds.......................
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:57:51 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Covenantor
He had too many ‘shots’ methinks..................
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posted on
07/31/2015 1:58:30 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: blueunicorn6
There are what, 365 seconds in a minute.You aren't in Colorado are you? Smoking the wacky weed?
365 days in a year. 60 seconds in a minute. LOL
But then, you may be pulling our leg.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:02:10 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Covenantor
You’re right, you’re right.
There are thirty one seconds in a minute except for in April.
So, if you divide 31 by 365......
I don’t think you can actually do that.
Maybe if x=12.
How in the world can a letter be a number? That’s like saying green equals big. You just can’t do it.
Math is evil.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:05:06 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
You’ve been in Uncle Dave’s aged finest.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:06:39 PM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Red Badger
TGIF
Nice souvenir table model by BAE Systems.
Noticed the overheating problem of the rail gun has been downgraded from "the effing rails keep melting!" Wonder how they're trying to solve the problem,
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:09:46 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: Red Badger
They need to fit one on an A10.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:10:29 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
To: fso301
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:11:52 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Covenantor
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:13:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: BenLurkin
Project is going nowhere. They might as well put it in an F35.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:14:31 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Democrats are parasites. It really is that simple.)
To: Truth29
Uncle Dave was in the Navy.
He was a rail gun shooter guy.
Nobody could shoot rail gun like Uncle Dave.
He’d blow on the dice and say, “Come on seven. Uncle Dave needs some new socks!”
Oh.....that was Craps. Uncle Dave was a Crap Shooter. So am I now. Can’t hit the broad side of a barn.
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:17:32 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/31/2015 2:18:32 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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