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Navy Electromagnetic Rail Gun Fires GPS Controlled Bullets at 5,600 mph
Gadizmo ^ | 2 August 2012 | R.J. Huneke

Posted on 08/03/2012 6:46:53 AM PDT by moonshot925

What navy would not want a two-foot-long GPS-guided bullet that can be fired from a gargantuan cannon built right into a warship?

Did you know that we already have bullets that can strike an enemy thirty miles away?

This new government project hopes to utilize the current artillery and rail guns aboard US warships, with just a minor tweaking: fast (5,600 mph), GPS-controlled, twenty plus pound bullets that can travel potentially hundreds of miles and strike with pinpoint accuracy.

Announced on July 19, the new program is called Hyper Velocity Projectile, and plans to build on such successes as the 5” Mark 45 Mod guns that already reach farther than 30 miles.

Missiles could very well be going the extinct way of the dinosaurs, as these colossal bullets will be much cheaper and safer to produce in massive quantities.

(Excerpt) Read more at gadizmo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullets; hypersonic; navy; railgun
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This is game changing technology.

40 pound projectiles traveling at 8,210 feet per second to ranges of 50-100 nautical miles.

1 posted on 08/03/2012 6:47:06 AM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

I want one.


2 posted on 08/03/2012 6:48:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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—8,210 feet per second—

Crap! That’s faster than my Scion!


3 posted on 08/03/2012 6:50:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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I think there is a place or two in Iran that they could test these on.


4 posted on 08/03/2012 6:51:12 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker (Oppose Senate Amendment S.A. 2575! I need more than 10 rounds in my magazine.)
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To: moonshot925
What was that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that featured that gun that fired the projectile at "near light speed"?

That is what came to my mind.....

5 posted on 08/03/2012 6:52:12 AM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are, right next to the potatoes!)
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To: cuban leaf

Only up hill...


6 posted on 08/03/2012 6:53:09 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1291 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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To: China Clipper

I think it was “Eraser”.


7 posted on 08/03/2012 6:54:01 AM PDT by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: moonshot925

When this is fieldable, it changes the ballance between air and ground units.

This has been in the works for a long time, and is a primary driving force behind the push for the development of small, harder to detect and kill unmanned drones.


8 posted on 08/03/2012 6:54:01 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: China Clipper

Eraser


9 posted on 08/03/2012 6:54:35 AM PDT by Fedupwithit ("Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils" - Gen. John Stark)
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To: moonshot925

Bring on the Cylons!


10 posted on 08/03/2012 6:54:50 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (I won't vote for Romney, period. Voting for "the lesser of two evils" is still voting for evil.)
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To: China Clipper

11 posted on 08/03/2012 6:55:22 AM PDT by China Clipper ( Animals? Sure I like animals. See? There they are, right next to the potatoes!)
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". . . GPS Controlled Bullets . . ."

Now there's an Achilles heal . . .

12 posted on 08/03/2012 6:56:37 AM PDT by guitar4jesus (Biofuels, AGW, Globalism, Green Movement -- Strong Delusions! . . . . 2Thes 2:11)
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Whoops, "heel" . . . . Didn't get much sleep last night ;-)
13 posted on 08/03/2012 6:57:49 AM PDT by guitar4jesus (Biofuels, AGW, Globalism, Green Movement -- Strong Delusions! . . . . 2Thes 2:11)
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To: EEGator

I want a whole bunch!......


14 posted on 08/03/2012 6:59:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: moonshot925

Yes, but does it use green energy?.............


15 posted on 08/03/2012 6:59:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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To: null and void

Imagine you are 20 miles from the landing point. I wonder what one of those things whizzing by a hundred feet over your head would sound like.


16 posted on 08/03/2012 7:00:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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You would not hear it...............


17 posted on 08/03/2012 7:01:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Think logically. Act normally.................)
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“........then steer that bad boy around the children smashing matchbox cars in the front yard and hit the right target inside the kitchen window . . . BOOM!”

So whadder they sayin’? Momma better learn to cook?


18 posted on 08/03/2012 7:03:31 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: moonshot925

That is 1/3 of the velocity needed to escape the gravity well. with more power and a longer rail we could take out satelites. Of course hitting them might be a little tricky.


19 posted on 08/03/2012 7:04:48 AM PDT by albionin (A gawn fit's aye gettin.)
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To: Red Badger

—You would not hear it...—

I mean as it streaks through the air, still 20 miles from it’s target. A large metal pojectile streaking through the air at many times the speed of sound would have to make one hell of a racket, preceded by a sonic boom, of course.


20 posted on 08/03/2012 7:08:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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