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FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET (A First Look at America’s Supergun)
The Wall Street Journal ^
| May 27, 2016
| Julian E. Barnes
Posted on 05/27/2016 10:28:47 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
Here I will loan you one “F”
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:29:32 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:30:50 AM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: sukhoi-30mki
To: sukhoi-30mki
Extreme velocityness! Imagine what it would do to that stupid rock in Mecca.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:35:28 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I imagine that our newest destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, will be coming in for refitting real soon now.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:35:42 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I’m shocked that someone makes a camera that can track that thing in flight
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:36:17 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: al baby
Lend. Loan is a noun and only a noun.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:36:33 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Goodbye aircraft and armor. Say hello to infantry battles.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:37:43 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
To: sukhoi-30mki
a bullet loses velocity from the moment the gunpowder ignites and sends it flying a bullet loses velocity from the moment the round leaves the barrel.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:38:17 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
One drawback: it requires a whole lot of electricity to power something like this.
To: sukhoi-30mki
The problem is that the aliens invading the USA aren’t arriving from other worlds in a vehicle you can shoot down with a space age weapon.
They are arriving here by walking across the border or flying in on commercial airliners.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:40:00 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: arthurus
Journalists. Dey never got it right.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:41:05 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I don’t care how fast it is, I still won’t be able to hit a chukar.
To: sukhoi-30mki
Another advanced weapon concept with its roots back in Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:43:37 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
To: sukhoi-30mki
4,500 MPH is almost Mach 6! Movin’!
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:43:44 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: arthurus
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:44:44 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: arthurus
Or before if all the propellant is burned before the projectile leaves the barrel.
In another historical artillery note. I wonder if rail-guns will now be described by the weight of the projectile they launch, as used to be done with British cannon. The rail-gun described in the article would be a 25 pounder.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:45:26 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Thanks to Hilda, the Russians already have the specs
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:46:39 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Boogieman
One drawback: it requires a whole lot of electricity to power something like this
25 megawatt of power is enough to light a city.
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posted on
05/27/2016 10:47:11 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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