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Naval Rail Gun testing


DieChecker

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Go to link to see the video. I like how even the bits that are fired with the round are traveling supersonic. You can see the sonic boom wavefront on some of the casing bits.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-first-look-at-americas-supergun-1464359194

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The Navy’s current 6-inch guns have a range of 15 miles. The 16-inch guns of mothballed World War II-era battleships could fire a distance of 24 miles and penetrate 30 feet of concrete. In contrast, the railgun has a range of 125 miles, officials said, and five times the impact.

“Anytime you have a projectile screaming in at extremely high speeds—kilometers per second—the sheer kinetic energy of that projectile is awesome,” Mr. Work said. “There are not a lot of things that can stop it.

 

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itll be nice to see these installed on navy ships and then parked near the islands those world wrecker chinese are building.

 

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