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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: Fractal Trader

Railgun slugs are by definition simple chunks of metal. Even if the electronics could handle the acceleration, they’d be fried by the magnetic field. I think what they’re talking about is how the gun is aimed.


15 posted on 02/28/2012 8:58:49 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Fractal Trader

I would bet the guided accuracy would be based on initial firing, not on continual in flight adjustment like on a missile system. In other words, they would use GPS calculations of the target to feed into the targeting computer. If they could find a way to have continual in-flight adjustments, DARPA has some s*** way beyond anything I could imagine. Calling it GPS-Guided is probably some reporter’s interpretation by not understanding what some technical description meant.


21 posted on 02/28/2012 9:05:58 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Fractal Trader
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.

It's perfectly technically feasible to have a GPS guided round, and potentially an active seeker for attacking moving targets - was some work during the SDI days on this.

There have been a lot of advancements in solid-state electronics that can survive high-G and magnetic environments.

24 posted on 02/28/2012 9:10:00 PM PST by Strategerist
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