Supersonic Round Features 100-Mile Rang

thomasnet.com ^ | Feb. 7 2018 | Jeff Reinke

[bunkerhill7]

ok

[Enterprise]

You rant?

[Navy Patriot]

Where’s Gerald Bull when ya need him?

[Enterprise]

OOPS - you rang?

[rjsimmon]

Did the Navy not install these on the new Zumwalt class destroyers?

[blackdog]

Cool stuff that goes boom. The shockwave alone from a 2,000 pound round fired from one of those guns destroys everything it gets near.

The math on the energy delivered (kinetic operation) = 48,560,000,000 pounds of force.

That is a BFD.

[real saxophonist]

You rang?

[dsc]

Would the guns currently on ships stand up to that kind of force?

[blackdog]

I believe the mag rail gun uses continuous acceleration until the point it leaves the barrel, thus reducing the recoil. Not to say it is not immense, but nowhere near the receiving end of business.

Very good question though. Most likely classified information not yet bandied about by FBI agents wanting to be executive lap dogs.

[bunkerhill7]

It`ll ring their bell.

[blackdog]

I have seen videos of a 2000 pound projectile fired 20 miles off of one of those guns. Impressive. I understand though the capacitors that charge the thing are short lived and take quite some time to recover from a firing.

[bunkerhill7]

Ding Dong for Kim Jong

[outofsalt]

Fast but dumb. The round, not you.
The PATRIOT is a Phased Array Targeting Radar for Inteception On Target missile. it cost more because it will find it’s target.
I’m all for dumb munitions and lots of them, don’t get me wrong.

[dsc]

“I understand though the capacitors that charge the thing are short lived and take quite some time to recover from a firing.”

But I wanted to eat my cake now, and still save it for later.

Everything’s a trade-off, isn’t it?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[blackdog]

The Doppler shock wave of such a weapon will destroy anything within 100 yards of it’s path in mid flight. So you only need to get close in flight, then pray for the poor bastards wherever the thing is going to land.

[fruser1]

You could take somebody’s eye out with that.

[VRWCarea51]

I’ll take a couple. Got a new F150 on order, need to deck it out with a couple antifa guns. :)

[JimRed]

Unless it is guided, windage is going to be a problem!

[Damifino]

Where’s Gerald Bull when ya need him?

Few will get that allusion but that Canuk sure killed a lot of Persians and Arabs.

"Supersonic" title doesn't do this round justice: 4600mph >>> 741mph