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01-18-2007, 07:34 PM #1Bohemian Extraordinaire ELITE MEMBER
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US Navy posesses Railgun Technology!???!
Navy develops 8-Megajoule railgun, Nukem bows down
Posted Jan 18th 2007 1:11PM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds
The mere mention of the word brings back visions of the original first-person-shooters to grace our now-antiquated machines, and now the US Navy is getting real personal with a realized version of the pixelated railgun we all love and adore. Presumably ripped straight from the (admittedly lacking) storyline of Quake, an 8-Megajoule railgun has been officially created, fired, and deemed worthy of flanking our naval ships, which should strike fear in the hearts of anyone wishing us harm. The gun was showcased this week at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren, Virginia, and utilizes massive quantities of electricity rather than gunpowder to propel "nonexplosive projectiles at incredible speeds." The weapon is powerful enough to equal the damage inflicted by a Tomahawk cruise missile, and the device's project director compared the impact to hitting a solid object "going 380 miles-per-hour in a Ford Taurus." Moreover, the railgun touts a 200 to 250 nautical-mile range, compared to the 15 nautical-mile range that current five-inch guns sport now. Interestingly, the weapon should "only" cost around $1,000 per shot once loaded onboard, which is chump change compared to the cool million that vanishes each time a cruise missile is deployed, and if everything goes as planned, we'll be seeing a 32-Megajoule prototype in June, with a 64-Megajoule rendition adorning our ships by 2020.
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01-18-2007, 07:36 PM #2Thats Dr. Keke to you! ELITE MEMBER
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Great news. Now it's even cheaper to destroy cities and kill people.
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Instead of a million per missile it's only a few thousand per strike, but of course our Government will not be passing those savings on to our school system.....but just dump it into more military projects....
Originally Posted by viet_jon
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and drag down the features of age,
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but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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I got to get me one of those!
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Iraq would be a good testing grounds.
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Who designed it? Who is manufacturing it?
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id software Originally Posted by Spud
Total ownage. Originally Posted by kbm8795
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Excellent!
And this is some of the stuff that we know about. Can you imagine the stuff that we don't know about?So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
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That should rock the casbah, I think it's time for some field testing in Iraq & Afghanistan.
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