 March 2, 2012 - 12:35pm | http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/29/railgun-test-fire-video/ You're about to watch a test firing of BAE's experimental railgun demonstrating why the technology isn'tscience fiction anymore. Load an aluminum projectile into the 12-meter barrel and one million amps willhypersonically propel it toward the target. The conflagration you'll witness is due to the metal slug burning off in the charged air. In April, General Atomics will supply its own prototype so the military can identify which one is closer to making its way aboard the battleships of the 2020's. Anyway, now you can go watch the video fully aware of what's going on, try not to sit there with your mouth open.
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 March 2, 2012 - 12:47pm | Next the army is going to want one. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 2, 2012 - 1:55pm | Army won't be able to use one except for point defense until they drop the ampere requirement down a little. Still they will get there one day soon. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
March 2, 2012 - 5:40pm | They need a shiva gun sized one mounted on a bolo chassis, no more will we fear alien invasion. (For shiva gun see John Ringo's A Hymn Before Battle series. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 3, 2012 - 9:45pm | I saw an apparent recoil... let me know when the vac tests are declassified...  Oh and I want to see one of them babies fire a real round with aluminium coating - not just some crudely shaped dull-metal non-aerodynamic slug... The aluminum coated rounds makes a pretty fine howdy-do... Oh humans!!  We discover a galactic community filled with multiple species of aliens, and the first thing we think about is "how can we have sex with them?".~ anymoose, somewhere on the net... so... if you square a square it becomes a cube... if you square a cube does it become an octoid? |
