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The US Navy's Railgun Program

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 1, 2012 @08:17AM from the shoot-em-if-you-got-em dept.

RougeFive writes "Imagine a warship weapon that can launch projectiles at Mach 10 without explosives (more than three times the muzzle speed of an M16 rifle), that has a range of 220 miles and that uses the enormous speed to destroy the target by causing as much damage as a Tomahawk missile. Meet the U.S. Navy's electromagnetic railgun program."

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Fear it Iran by binarylarry · 2012-10-01 08:20 · Score: 0, Flamebait

We're going Schwarzenegger on your ass!

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Re:What's old is new again by Lucas123 · 2012-10-01 09:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Wow. You're a genius. You can read Wikipedia. Tool.