"Video of US Navy rail gun" Topic
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79thPA  | 31 May 2016 8:04 a.m. PST |
Pretty impressive: link A 120 mile range can certainly change things. |
| Onomarchos | 31 May 2016 9:08 a.m. PST |
It's great … If it works. I guess I'm very jaded after things like the F – 35 fiasco. |
| VonTed | 31 May 2016 9:11 a.m. PST |
Yeah, working in a lab is different than the real world. But it does hold a lot of promise |
| tberry7403 | 31 May 2016 10:13 a.m. PST |
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| Jamesonsafari | 31 May 2016 10:37 a.m. PST |
Except how big a ship do you need to power if? |
| Stryderg | 31 May 2016 11:48 a.m. PST |
So, what happens if you aim at the top of a mountain? Would it splatter rocks in a shotgun pattern over the countryside on the other side? |
| tberry7403 | 31 May 2016 12:50 p.m. PST |
Except how big a ship do you need to power if? More along the line of "How big a ship do you need to CARRY it?" It is, after all, 38 feet long! It would probably need to be fix-mounted like the Wave Motion Gun which would limit its usefulness. |
| BattleCaptain | 31 May 2016 1:04 p.m. PST |
What do they have against Philadelphia? :) |
| StarCruiser | 31 May 2016 3:24 p.m. PST |
Unless they've found some way to keep the "barrel" from frying itself after several shots, it's still a waste of money… It's not a "electro-magnetic rail gun" – it's a "electro-static rail gun". That fact makes a big difference in atmosphere. In space, it would probably work pretty good, except for the recoil effect pushing your ship backwards. |
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