Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 630
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."
Re:IANA Physicist, So... (Score:5, Funny)
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Power? (Score:5, Funny)
No, you're mistaken ... that's the USS-Nokia. ;-)
Mach 7? (Score:5, Funny)
So... (Score:5, Funny)
So we're back to throwing rocks.
We just throw them very, very fast. :)
Re:IANA Physicist, So... (Score:5, Funny)
Now we just need someone to say: "Yeah, bitch! Magnets!" and our Breaking Bad reference is done.
Re:Glitterboyz on the way (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Glitterboyz on the way (Score:4, Funny)
F=MA. M = big, A = very fast, therefore F = big very fast!
So, teaching in current mathematics has come to this?
We're doomed.
Re:No jetpacks yet... (Score:4, Funny)
Fool! You have to go to the Sharper Image catalog for that sort of thing.
Hell, Target doesn't even sell Mr. Fusions yet.
Re:Power? (Score:4, Funny)
C'mon! you just ruined it for me. I wanted to see an F-18 get launched off a carrier deck at mach 7.
Re:IANA Physicist, So... (Score:3, Funny)
Oxygen is most definitely not flammable
So then it is inflammable?
Worst apparent negative prefix ever.
Re:No jetpacks yet... (Score:4, Funny)
Mr. Fusion comes out next year (2015).
Re:Shoot The Moon! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Mach 7? (Score:4, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, mach 7 razor disposes of YOU.
Re:the future is now... (Score:4, Funny)
The future is never now..the present is now.
Re:IANA Physicist, So... (Score:5, Funny)
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!?!?
Re:the future is now... (Score:4, Funny)
Too soon.