Gamer Fantasy Now A Reality: Railguns
I ran across this article in one of the forums I frequent:
Railguns For The Navy
Yes, railguns. For those of you that don't know what a railgun is, it is a gun that fires a metal slug or projectile with electrmagnetic power. It uses two rails supercharged with electricty to magnetically propel the bullet.
According to the article, the technology has progressed rather quickly. This thing will be mounted on warships like canons. It will have a range of 250 nautical miles and will hit the target in about 6 minutes. The trajectory of the round will take it 95 miles into the air, just into space, and back down again.
Eventually, they will be able to put electronics into the round and guide it with a GPS system.
Railguns For The Navy
Yes, railguns. For those of you that don't know what a railgun is, it is a gun that fires a metal slug or projectile with electrmagnetic power. It uses two rails supercharged with electricty to magnetically propel the bullet.
According to the article, the technology has progressed rather quickly. This thing will be mounted on warships like canons. It will have a range of 250 nautical miles and will hit the target in about 6 minutes. The trajectory of the round will take it 95 miles into the air, just into space, and back down again.
Eventually, they will be able to put electronics into the round and guide it with a GPS system.
posted by Tyler at 4:32 PM
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