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Al Hasse · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject: Naval weapon of the future

Electromagnetic Railgun

In the research & development phase since 2005, the Navy released a video of its test fire on Tuesday. Pretty impressive...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/railgun-real-gun/

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

Cool. I have been watching the progress on that. Waiting for the smaller version with GTA front mount Wink

-Schultzy

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

They should change their motto to "Velocitas Ridiculum"

If the Air Force gets to have the F-22, the Navy gets to have railguns on every ship.

blue89 · Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:24 pm Post subject:

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject:

Holy smokes that thing is awesome! That's over a mile per second!

-jake

blue89 · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:36 pm Post subject:

Ya, mile a second, 60 miles a minute, or 3600 miles per hour, or Mach 4.7, or 5.37x 10^-6 times the speed of light.

How would you control a dumb projectile going that fast? They said it would go 50-100 miles but are having problems with the acceleration destroying electronics.

Al Hasse · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject:

BluFbdy · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:53 pm Post subject:

that's too advanced. I like the idea but if a ship is outfitted with all electromagnetic firearms what's to stop any foreign enemy from developing a strong useful EMP to wipe them out? An entire ship would be a sitting duck, no movement and no defense, sometimes stupid weapons are the best weapons because there's no way to interfere with operation from a distance.

granted its what if but 8 years is a long time but an EMP could be a common thing then

still pretty badass though

RSFreak · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:48 pm Post subject:

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Ships and their electrical systems are already hardened against EMP.

RSFreak · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject:

As are most military vehicles and equipment.

BluFbdy · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject:

well I suppose that makes sense lol I'm just saying as we advance so does everyone else atleast with the current stuff we know what can damage them and I'd really hate to see something that takes megajoules of energy malfunction, don't think that would turn out too great lol