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 milesA 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 milesCheck this one out-computer graphics for now, but...
Not too farfetched.
I wonder how far they are in developing this?
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Holy smokes, what an incredible vision for 21st century warfare...
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Slim Pickins.
Boom! Shaka Laka, Boom!
Take that bitches!!!
“It shoots through schools.”
Particle beams, rail guns. Wake me up when one is at sea.
These gee whiz articles have coming out of Popular Mechanix type articles for decades now. Company next to mine thirty years ago was developing a rail gun, heard it fire periodically.
Still a lab demonstrator.
it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.
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Hillary might spill this, but Navy shouldn’t.
Pardon my ignorance, but if this projectile is launched by an electric current, why does there seem to be a flammable explosion as it exits the gun?