Navy’s New Railgun Can Hurl a Shell Over 5,000 MPH

April 9th, 2014

Via: Wired:

The U.S. Navy is tapping the power of the Force to wage war.

Its latest weapon is an electromagnetic railgun launcher. It uses a form of electromagnetic energy known as the Lorentz force to hurl a 23-pound projectile at speeds exceeding Mach 7. Engineers already have tested this futuristic weapon on land, and the Navy plans to begin sea trials aboard a Joint High Speed Vessel Millinocket in 2016.

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One Response to “Navy’s New Railgun Can Hurl a Shell Over 5,000 MPH”

  1. Dennis says:
    April 9, 2014 at 9:04 am

    So, whatever could provide enough juice during battle would have no problem making fuel at other times:

    https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=43506

    Regular nuclear electric? Maybe those cold-fusion
    experiments went better than we’ve been told.

    Those ultra-capacitors from a few years back would be very useful for the gun:

    https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=1878

    But I haven’t heard anything about them for ages.

    If they’re legit, the guns could be scaled down for portable use. Ammo packs of projectiles with a sealed and charged ultra-capacitor. They’d probably look very ‘Halo’. Bigger units mounted on vehicles and robo-dogs.

    Oh. Looks like someone’s already had this discussion:

    http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?77384-Electric-power-generation-are-naval-nuclear-plants-the-best-bang-for-buck-size

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