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Railgun #7277176
06/01/21 11:46 AM
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I was watching a show on TV the other night. They had a weapon called a railgun. I had never heard of this thing before. Unlike most weapons, instead of gun powder, it uses electromagnetism to fire it. It has an unbelievable speed of 4600mph. A cruise missile has a speed of around 650mph. The railgun has a range of 100 miles. It shoots a single projectile. They demonstrated this projectile going through 5 sheets of 6" plate steel spaced apart.

The downside to the weapon is that it needs 25 megawatts of electricity to fire it. The navy is working on 3 ships that will be able provide the electrical power to make it work.


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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277178
06/01/21 11:50 AM
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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277193
06/01/21 12:09 PM
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I want one


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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277196
06/01/21 12:11 PM
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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277291
06/01/21 03:07 PM
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Was Saddam not trying to build one and got caught tried to say the barrel was for oil production?


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Re: Railgun [Re: Law Dog] #7277295
06/01/21 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Law Dog
Was Saddam not trying to build one and got caught tried to say the barrel was for oil production?

That was a supergun. Different. Uses explosives , not magnetic forces.


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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277298
06/01/21 03:15 PM
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the rail gun concept has been around a long time. the working models are bullet trains, some industry are getting involved in different forms for moving all types of products, there have been lots of experiments with some very powerful magnets, some of the best come out of Mongolia so they say. Fun technology to play MIT had a program moving ore in mining if I remember correctly.

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Re: Railgun [Re: henpecked1] #7277720
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Originally Posted by henpecked1
the rail gun concept has been around a long time. the working models are bullet trains, some industry are getting involved in different forms for moving all types of products, there have been lots of experiments with some very powerful magnets, some of the best come out of Mongolia so they say. Fun technology to play MIT had a program moving ore in mining if I remember correctly.

If I recall correctly, a few years ago NASA was experimenting with something similar to shoot supplies up to the space station.


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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7277764
06/02/21 01:03 AM
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You can also generate the power by touching a wire on the court house clock when it’s struck by lightning. But ya gotta be going 88 mph to do it right.

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NASA was fooling around with the technology for awhile i think there is one at Holloman Sandia or White Sands some place in NM, but that was over 20 years ago, seems like a good idea to get things into space, better than fossil fuel, like I said before bullet trains are the best proof of concept and they are working.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/a...-gun-and-scramjet-fire-spacecraft-orbit/

Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7278132
06/02/21 03:15 PM
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What happened to the laser gun for shooting down missiles? Did that get done or what?......jk


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Re: Railgun [Re: Trapper7] #7278143
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With a range of 100 miles and a speed of over 5,000 mph, you could shoot down practically anything if you could perfect the gun.


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