Posted on 02/06/2015 6:22:42 AM PST by C19fan
I too am waiting for ray guns to be invented. I member back in the 70s having lunch boxes with are that said the year 2000 with spacemen on the moon shooting ray guns on it, never happened.
Very true. At those speeds, the projectile IS the payload.
That can’t be real.
There wasn’t any, “PEW-PEW,” sounds like in the movies.
;-)
#7 you are just never satisfied.... : )
While 90% of North Korea and 60% of the Chinese population is within 100 miles.
That said, this is a first generation rail gun. Larger guns, with longer ranges, will be coming.
Right now, I would presume that the 100 mile figure is not the ballistic range, which should be considerably more at those velocities, but rather effective range for retaining enough kinetic energy to dispense with a warhead.
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