Sci-Fi RailGun, for real

December 10, 2010 - Demo video - World Record U.S. Navy. Projectile speeds - Electomagnetic current acceleration MACH 7 (1.712 km/h or 1064 mph) Distance: 100+ Miles (150+ km) GPS Accuracy. Current Navy guns reach 13 miles (21 km). A Single Tomahawk missile costs around $6 Million a Railgun projectile will cost a fraction of that. Fully functional rail guns are expected to be on Deck within the next 15 years. We will be hearing much more on this beast soon.

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+42 1. Sleepwalker commented 13 years ago

Till i saw this i always thought railguns shut massive lightning bolts. Mislead by video games yet again!!!
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+21 2. Scipio commented 13 years ago

Surprising how small the projectile is.
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+4 3. dzthe commented 13 years ago

useless :P
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+17 4. Zethriel commented 13 years ago

Sure is a hole lot of shit just to fire a round... As awesome as it may be
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+9 5. banzemanga commented 13 years ago

Wow, $6 millions for a single missile. 1,000 missiles makes it $6 billions. And for it to be in the deck on 15 years, how much will it cost? :O
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+10 6. Usdevildoggmc commented 13 years ago

Sweet! I never thought I was going to see this posted :D

Read the description guys, this gun is insane... it has GPS accuracy and they plan on being able to hit a certain target and use their own explosives/weapons against them...

The video you are seeing is a world record, the gun you see shooting is firing it out at 33 Megajoules..

If our Alien buddies do come to visit us soon... they better come in peace >:)
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+8 7. Gringo_el_Diablo commented 13 years ago

That was funny! It's like the Death Star charging up just to fire a 9mm round! >:)
Joking aside.... great find #6
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+5 8. MickM commented 13 years ago

Mach 7 is about 8,000 km/h (5,000 mph).

Obviously the further away the target, the slower the projectile, and the less impact it will have.

I wonder what the cycle time will be (cooldown, recharge, reload, fire).
I can see this on a carrier-type ship.

Pretty damm cool.
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+15 9. Antonio86 commented 13 years ago

that's it! let's make a gun bigger and deadlier so people can continue to kill each other and ruining our planet :(
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+31 10. BangkokJarek commented 13 years ago

Another tool for spreading 'freedom' and 'liberty'.
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+4 11. JaeMarie commented 13 years ago

#9 - I believe the point is accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Think of it like treating cancer. It used to be that doctors would only be able to poison the whole body with chemo in the hope of killing off the bad stuff before too much damage was done to the rest. As technology progresses, they're getting better at isolating and attacking the problem, while leaving the rest of the body relatively unharmed.
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+7 12. huldu commented 13 years ago

Looked like the machine actually took some slight damage firing the projectile.
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+9 13. Saxonnielsen commented 13 years ago

Don't like weapons... should belong to the same category as ties and Christmas cards..... Outdated
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+1 14. mikeaza commented 13 years ago

No wonder it's for the navy, look at the hughe amount of power you need !
We are far from the railgun from quake though :D
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+9 15. MrGood commented 13 years ago

#6
If Aliens are able to travel to planet earth then their weaponry will certainly be more powerful than ours O:)
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+9 16. Noobeater commented 13 years ago

This will help promote world peace for sure.
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+3 17. Pizzathehutt26 commented 13 years ago

This is cool but nothing like being behind a .50cal machine gun. Shooting 2 armor piercing, 2 armor piercing incendiary and the 5th round being a tracer to see where you are shooting at night. Watching two tracer rounds ricochet off of a wave top and straight up into the night sky.
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-1 18. irishgek commented 13 years ago

Yay ..... a gun the size of a building great and ye invade iraq for having WMD and there ye are making new ones sorry america but your the biggest bunch of hypocrites
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+5 19. mydixiewrecked commented 13 years ago

I would like to see the target when it gets hit by the projectile
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+1 20. cretia commented 13 years ago

I just feel alot more unstable now
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+2 21. Bream73 commented 13 years ago

another killing machine!
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0 22. HyperionIV commented 13 years ago

Someone said Gordon Freeman?
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+4 23. joeman commented 13 years ago

#9 and #18...
When the 'hypocrites' stop making these weapons,
you might want to start learning Chinese...
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0 24. balca83 commented 13 years ago

When Americans say ``We fight for peace`` i sounds like ``We f... for virginity`` >:)
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+3 25. Zephid commented 13 years ago

Quote: Fully functional rail guns are expected to be on Deck within the next 15 years.

15 years ago they said the same!
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-3 26. Iamweasel commented 13 years ago

#23 ure a poor little man ... i pity you for your smallmindedness ...
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+2 27. Chrisofskjern commented 13 years ago

A tomahawk missile costs 6 million. But what about the electric bill for running this beast? :)
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+2 28. GOOSE42 commented 13 years ago

This tech. doesn't have to be a weapon you know, what about un-manned mining robots in the asteroid belt using this kind of thing to fire ore back into earth orbit? Of course it has to start somewhere. I know most people don't like to hear it but with out weapons development we wouldn't have a fraction of the technologies we enjoy today.
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+2 29. sux2bu commented 13 years ago

#27 The rail gun is being designed to be used on nuclear powered ships that have almost unlimited electrical capabilities,so no worry about that. Since the Navy has now made major advances in the FEL (laser cannon) ,it might see action before the rail gun does.