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1 posted on 02/28/2012 8:40:47 PM PST by DogByte6RER
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BAE Electromagnetic Railgun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU&feature=player_embedded


2 posted on 02/28/2012 8:41:38 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

>>equivalent amount of destructive force as a Volkswagen Beetle traveling at 100 mph.<<

Which would be the first VW Bug to actually hit that speed.


3 posted on 02/28/2012 8:45:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Cool!


8 posted on 02/28/2012 8:49:47 PM PST by Oceander (TINSTAAFL - Mother Nature Abhors a Free Lunch almost as much as She Abhors a Vacuum)
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To: DogByte6RER
50 and 100 miles downrange with flawless GPS-guided accuracy

Good luck with that! No guidance system known to man can handle that acceleration and keep on functioning. Plenty of systems with far lower velocity/acceleration have proven impossible to function after being subjected to high g-forces.

11 posted on 02/28/2012 8:51:48 PM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: DogByte6RER

I wonder why the odd shape? Did anyone see any info about exactly how fast this thing really is moving? Is it more than 5000 ft/sec?


14 posted on 02/28/2012 8:58:32 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: DogByte6RER

HA! My series 3 photon raygun makes that look like a puss.Isn’t that right Commander Spock?


16 posted on 02/28/2012 9:00:33 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: DogByte6RER

I wonder how long before they start doing rapid fire? I’d like to see them rip off a couple hundred in under a minute.


17 posted on 02/28/2012 9:00:51 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: DogByte6RER

The gun and all related power systems need to be EMP hardened.


26 posted on 02/28/2012 9:12:06 PM PST by GraceG
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To: DogByte6RER

Not exactly your average pocket pistol;)


38 posted on 02/28/2012 9:22:33 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: DogByte6RER

” .. for fear of accidentally losing control of one and hitting the White House”

Naval Research Lab?


40 posted on 02/28/2012 9:30:37 PM PST by tumblindice (Nuke Hollywood from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: DogByte6RER

I think the moon is the only place where solar panels can be effectively used without wasting space and energy.

Install these there and you go yourself a nice launching pad for outer space probes.


41 posted on 02/28/2012 9:35:46 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: DogByte6RER

Seems like rather than keeping things secret, now we have to let the world know our latest tech developments and plans.


43 posted on 02/28/2012 9:43:11 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust in the Lord Jesus to save you as a damned+morally destitute sinner ,+ be forgiven+live)
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To: DogByte6RER

Ping


46 posted on 02/28/2012 10:28:27 PM PST by steel_resolve (Ships With Holes Will Sink And I Will Swim)
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To: DogByte6RER
Navy Fires Up Fully-Weaponized (BAE Electromagnetic)Railgun Prototype

Just think about what they could do with one of these guns two miles long, that fired subatomic particles - in space.

(SLAC)


48 posted on 02/28/2012 10:33:58 PM PST by Talisker (He who commands, must obey.)
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To: DogByte6RER

The article doesn’t give a price for the gun but it sounds like the ammo would be pretty cheap (aluminum blanks).


50 posted on 02/28/2012 11:26:41 PM PST by Heuristic Hiker
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To: DogByte6RER

In the video, the clip from the down-range aimed camera shows the projectile yawing from side to side as it responds to aerodynamic forces on its tail.

The yaw frequency in the video looks like it’s about 1/3 hz. That’s after it’s been slowed down by a factor of, like, 200 or 300 (very rough estimate there).

That means that, in free flight, that projectile is wobbling at between 60 and 100 hz. Magnitude of yaw looks to my eye to be maybe 30° peak-to-peak.

Now look at the size of the projectile as that Navy engineer puts it in the breech. It’s got to weigh 10-20 lbs.

For those of you with some mechanical background, just imagine the torque necessary to get an object of length ~16 inches, weighing, say, 15 pounds, oscillating through ±15° at 60 or 70 hz

Then consider that that thing doesn’t really have fins in the normal sense. It just as a sort of wide tail, hewn from a block of aluminum by the look of it.

We’re talking some serious speed here.


52 posted on 02/28/2012 11:51:57 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

In case you were wondering about what I would like for my birthday..................


53 posted on 02/29/2012 3:49:51 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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