40 pound projectiles traveling at 8,210 feet per second to ranges of 50-100 nautical miles.
I want one.
—8,210 feet per second—
Crap! That’s faster than my Scion!
I think there is a place or two in Iran that they could test these on.
That is what came to my mind.....
When this is fieldable, it changes the ballance between air and ground units.
This has been in the works for a long time, and is a primary driving force behind the push for the development of small, harder to detect and kill unmanned drones.
Bring on the Cylons!
Now there's an Achilles heal . . .
Yes, but does it use green energy?.............
“........then steer that bad boy around the children smashing matchbox cars in the front yard and hit the right target inside the kitchen window . . . BOOM!”
So whadder they sayin’? Momma better learn to cook?
That is 1/3 of the velocity needed to escape the gravity well. with more power and a longer rail we could take out satelites. Of course hitting them might be a little tricky.
I recall reading elsewhere that these projectiles contain no explosive ordnance. Their destructive power comes from kinetic energy alone. As an Ordnanceman myself, this is interesting in that these projectiles could potentially be stored almost anywhere on a ship safely, rather than a handful of armored, floodable magazines. They could also be handled by many more crewmembers than just ordnance-qualified personnel.
This will change deer hunting forever.
Yes, a game changer.
These projectiles require no explosives, as the kinetic energy of impact dwarfs the power of any payload. If I’ve done my math correctly, a 40 lb projectile at these speeds has twice the kinetic energy of a 1600 lb shell at conventional speeds.
The magazine capacity of a ship is also much greater, as only the projectile is required. This will double or triple capacity by volume and weight.
This reintroduces the BB battleship as a naval combatant.
There is no defense against these arrows. The only option is to go after the archer.
A navy that cannot afford $40 per gallon 'green' fuel?
Cruise missiles ~ kaput!.
Drones - kaput!
Fighter aircraft - kaput!
Bombers - kaput!
Tanks - kaput!
Bicycles - kaput!
And this stuff will only get better.
In large quantities; relatively inexpensive; launched from our ships anywhere on Earth; .....
The Airforce has had this for YEARS!
Well since season 4-5....
Rail gun? I’d be just as happy with the bug “shotgun” as indicated on the same website.
http://gadizmo.com/bug-a-salt-turns-extermination-into-a-sport.php
About a year ago, I was the guest of an official of a major university. Near his desk was a nicely mounted piece of one inch metal plate, about 10 inches square with a 5 inch hole blasted out of the middle. He said this was one plate out of a stack of a dozen or so that had been hit with an slug shot from one of their experimental electromagnetic cannons. He declined to give more details.