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| A First Look at America’s Supergun | |
| 2016-05-29 | |
The Navy’s experimental railgun fires a hardened projectile at staggering velocity—a battlefield meteorite with the power to blow holes in enemy ships and level terrorist camps.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 I wonder how effective current ship anti-missile systems are against it? I suspect not very. Would take a lot of energy to deflect a lump of high density metal travelling at Mach 6. I also wonder if this is steerable in flight? |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-05-29 22:19 |
| #1 Lotta WTF in the article. Still hope it scares the poopoo out of potential targets. Take away, we're gonna need MORE POWER. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-05-29 14:17 |