Posted on Apr 3, 2017
Watch the US Navy fire its game-changing hypersonic electromagnetic railgun
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"We Don't Need No Stinking Cordite" Bloody Hell!
Watch the US Navy fire its game-changing hypersonic electromagnetic railgun
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Cool railgun, bet it takes quite a little energy to shot the rounds.
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SSG Tom Pike
The newest ships the navy is putting out are all electric drive motors with big diesel or nuclear generators. They put out a lot of electrical power. Since it takes about 8 times as much power to double your speed on a ship, all they have to do is slow down a bit and they can keep firing until they run out of projectiles. They are designing ships to handle the electric load of weapons like this and high powered lasers.
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0.5 MV^2. We don't necessarily have to make the projectile heavier to be more effective, faster works too.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Kinetic Energy Weapon I think they call it. No Warhead just a lot of stinking energy.
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SPC Kevin Ford
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Exactly, at some point someone started to think about the non-mass side of the equation, the part that's squared... :)
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