Posted on 01/31/2008 12:59:13 PM PST by Froufrou
One issue is barrel life. The objective is to get it to 100 shots. Currently you need to replace the barrel after just a few shots.
I am not quite sure what exactly this railgun will do. Does it knock out all electrical components of the target or does it silently fire a hunk of metal at 7 mach? Do you know?
LIDAR and directed energy weapons are going to make aircraft obsolete.
See link @ post # 77
lmao...
I don't deny that carrier could regain dominance, but not by airborne rail guns. Think WWI-WWII; planes didn't dominate supersede battleships by carrying 18-inch guns... Currently, this thing is room sized, it dissipates an extra-oridnary amount of heat, and it requires the kind of energy that only a large ship could provide-- sort of analogous to the 14 inch gun of the WWI era, if you will. Aircraft may find a way to beat this, but probably not by outgunning it, and it will probably take a bit of time for this to happen.
Poppycock! Give me a U.S. submarine and I'll take on whole surface world. The biggest (and only real threat given a good team) to a submarine is another submarine.
See power point presentation below; it is planned to go exo-atmospheric during mid-course trajectory.
No messy brains to clean up..........
Drat! I got the ‘page couldn’t be displayed’ edit. Must be getting lots of hits on that link!
Exactly!
From the Navy Powerpoint, the naval gun will shoot a 10 kg projectile at 2.5 km/sec. The recoil on that sucker would be a bit much for an airframe
What they want is an indirect-fire capability where the projectile is fired up in a sub-orbital trajectory at mach 7.5, and comes down up to 200 miles away at mach 5, with a 5 minute flight time
Just use a Dirt Devil and your through!..............
The threat of removing the Red Bull stash from the bunker fridge outta cut that stuff down to none.
No no no ... you dont get it ... this gun CREATES carbon credits, by stopping the exhalation of greenhouse gasses like CO2 at the point of impact. The US govt is going to become an exporter or carbon credits. Once a dem is in office, then freelancers will even let you ... for a few dollars more ... order carbon credits with a specific point of origin. /sarc but not really
It will be suborbital and spend most of its flight path outside the atmosphere
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