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02-26-12, 09:50 AM
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Lucky Jack
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Railgun lives!
We all thought she was dead...but it looks like she still lives.
 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/rail-gun/ http://news.yahoo.com/navy-railgun-s...225700227.html |
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02-26-12, 11:47 AM
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In the Brig
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Railgun, never heard of it before. Do you think they'll have them in stores by Xmas? Do they make an iPad app for them? I want one.
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02-26-12, 12:05 PM
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Let's Sink Sumptin' !
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Get sharks with frickin' railguns mounted on their heads and then we're talking.
 
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02-26-12, 08:51 PM
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Fleet Admiral
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That's almost 9,000 feet per second
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02-26-12, 09:02 PM
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Bilge Rat
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i want one for my birthday
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02-27-12, 01:44 AM
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The Old Man
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i wonder when i can buy one for myself so i can hook it up to fire beer cans
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02-28-12, 09:43 PM
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Navy Seal
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Defense Tech posted this video of it being fired.
http://defensetech.org/2012/02/28/vi...me/#more-16468 Is it me or does the sound the gun make at 0:22 sound strangely like this:
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02-28-12, 09:53 PM
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Rear Admiral
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How long till I can buy one?!?!?!?!
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02-28-12, 10:30 PM
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Stowaway
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2.5 Km/second at 32MJ
,no wonder there's a big ball of plasma coming out the front ,you Really don't want to be standing anywhere near one when it goes off!it'll make life really interesting for anything coming over the horizon if and when they go operational.. |
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02-29-12, 12:16 AM
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Navy Seal
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02-29-12, 07:03 AM
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4 Miles a second - 25 seconds to hit a target 100 miles away....
How far can something move in 25 seconds?
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02-29-12, 07:40 AM
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Dipped Squirrel Operative
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02-29-12, 08:13 AM
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Sea Lord
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1. How accurate it is? Currently there is no guided ammo available. 2. How you can steer molten steel? 3. What kind of weapon can counter to this? Could it be laser and how powerful it should be to intercept and destroy incoming threath?
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02-29-12, 08:31 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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Air/space dropped munitions. Tactical nuke. Teenager with a hammer. I've never been convinced of the railgun's viability as a weapon. Now, as a lower earth orbit launch facility? That is another matter.
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02-29-12, 08:32 AM
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Lucky Jack
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AFAIK
1) I'd say that it was pretty accurate in terms of the speed that it's moving at then I'd wager that local winds would only have a very negligible effect on it. Furthermore, with a dumb warhead, even with no explosives, the energy of the impact would be a bit like a small meteor hitting the ground. *Wiki has accuracy as being able to hit a five meter target at range of 200 miles with a firing range of ten shells per minute. 2) I don't think there is any way. 3) I'm not sure that there is a counter, I don't think a laser would have any effect on it. Possibly a counter-fire railgun shot at the incoming railgun shot...but the calculations involved would be rather large and have to be done very quick. I think the biggest problem facing the railgun right now is two-fold...first is funding. It's good that the project is continuing but they will need to design a platform to use it, be it a new Battleship or an artillery platform. Secondly there's the problem of wearing out the electromagnetic 'rails' which I'm not sure the project has been able to address...a rate of ten shells per minute seems quite high, which is good, but unless they've fixed the problem of wearing out the rails then they'd have to stop to load a new 'rail'. Oh, and permit me a small amount of national pride when I take note of who made the railgun. BAE systems. We still have it...thank God the Yanks have the money for it.
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