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Navy's 'Star Wars' weapon ...penetrates concrete 100 MILES away
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| Updated: 12:56 EST, 15 February 2016
| By Ellie Zolfagharifard
Posted on 02/15/2016 10:53:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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VIDEO AT LINK......................
To: Red Badger
A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018. Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles
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posted on
02/15/2016 10:54:14 AM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
How many environmental impact statements have to be generated before it could be used?
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posted on
02/15/2016 10:56:09 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/15/2016 10:56:18 AM PST
by
Mark
(Obama Care is now DEMOCRAT CARE)
To: Red Badger
is the shell guided? Seems like it would have to be.
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posted on
02/15/2016 10:57:21 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Mark
I’ve seen that video!...............
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posted on
02/15/2016 10:59:15 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Put a nuclear warhead on one of those babies and you've got a real weapon.
Signed,
Slim Pickins.
To: driftdiver
At 5400 mph?..............................not much time for in course corrections!.....................
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:03:58 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Boom! Shaka Laka, Boom!
Take that bitches!!!
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:04:46 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: wally_bert
Just one......................Fire when ready.......................
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:05:07 AM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: driftdiver
Doesn’t have to be guided, though it seems like it would be better if it could be.
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:05:32 AM PST
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: Red Badger
So far, the big problem with railguns, is the rails wearing out after just a few shots.
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:07:25 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Mark
Very impressive concepts. I could see where the exterior is made of cheaply constructed OLED flexible panels that would obtain imagery of the ground right before it hits, then displays that externally and mixes right in like a chameleon.
I am sure there are all kinds of other ways to detect them other than visual, but...visual is a good start.
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02/15/2016 11:07:52 AM PST
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: driftdiver
I sure hope it isn’t guided. Just what we need, a multi-billion dollar gun which requires multi-million dollar bullets on a sea platform which can be taken out with thousands of dollars worth of explosives.
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:08:25 AM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: PapaBear3625
An Iowa Class hull would make an adequate platform for mounting several of these weapons.
To: PapaBear3625
Didn’t know that.
I thought the big drawback was the power required...and that there would be no “wear”, because the ordinance never actually touched the rail, it was ejected on a mag-lev concept suspended in air even by a very, very tiny amount and then a wave of electromagnetic energy pulsing down a linear path would push the projectile in front of it.
I haven’t been following it that closely for a while, so you could be right and my understanding could be out of date.
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02/15/2016 11:12:08 AM PST
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: kingu
I would hope there would be a mix of unguided and guided, with the preponderance being unguided. I could certainly see times when a guided munition would have to be used.
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:13:41 AM PST
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: rlmorel
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02/15/2016 11:16:26 AM PST
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PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Red Badger
“It shoots through schools.”
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02/15/2016 11:16:51 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Mr. Lucky
Well...I just found this the other day, it was a personal photo a guy had taken on an UNREP in 1968 as the New Jersey came alongside his ship. Not an official Navy photo, but one of the finest I have ever seen of these beautiful ships.
Sadly, those hulls are gone to us now. They are the most beautiful ships, in my opinion, to have ever sailed in the age of steam.
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posted on
02/15/2016 11:19:49 AM PST
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rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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