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Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7
Jeremiah Cornelius writes: "The U.S. Navy's new railgun technology, developed by General Atomics, uses the Lorentz force in a type of linear, electric motor to hurl a 23-pound projectile at speeds exceeding Mach 7 — in excess of 5,000 mph. The weapon has a range of 100 miles and doesn't require explosive warheads. 'The electromagnetic railgun represents an incredible new offensive capability for the U.S. Navy,' says Rear Adm. Bryant Fuller, the Navy's chief engineer. 'This capability will allow us to effectively counter a wide range of threats at a relatively low cost, while keeping our ships and sailors safer by removing the need to carry as many high-explosive weapons.' Sea trials begin aboard an experimental Navy catamaran, the USNS Millinocket, in 2016."
Oxygen is pretty combustable if you get it hot enough. Friction is a bitch yo.
At last the US Navy, for so long the joke of the high seas, will become a force to be reckoned with.
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
No, you're mistaken ... that's the USS-Nokia. ;-)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Well, judging form the pictures, this is the one disposable razor I wouldn't want to be shaved with.
Ezekiel 23:20
So we're back to throwing rocks.
We just throw them very, very fast. :)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Now we just need someone to say: "Yeah, bitch! Magnets!" and our Breaking Bad reference is done.
according to the experts at yahoo answers, there isn't recoil in the traditional sense, but there is recoil because physics and also it somehow forms babby.
F=MA. M = big, A = very fast, therefore F = big very fast!
So, teaching in current mathematics has come to this?
We're doomed.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Fool! You have to go to the Sharper Image catalog for that sort of thing.
Hell, Target doesn't even sell Mr. Fusions yet.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
C'mon! you just ruined it for me. I wanted to see an F-18 get launched off a carrier deck at mach 7.
Oxygen is most definitely not flammable
So then it is inflammable?
Worst apparent negative prefix ever.
Mr. Fusion comes out next year (2015).
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The navy will secretly transport it to the moon, there the speed will be enough.
Yes, but who're you going to crew it with, convicts? They'll just build another one and throw rocks at us.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
The future is never now..the present is now.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Oxygen, it's in the air...
fine vaporized particles of metal...
*poof*
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a demonstration of what we science nerds like to call 'simple science for senators". The amazing thing about it is that you can actually get billions of dollars in funding using this simplified approach when brilliantly researched and written scientific papers fail miserably. Go figure!?!?
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Too soon.