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'I want one of these'

> and I would love to see a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

Picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

World’s Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to Navy

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4231461.html

Not your grandpa's shootin' iron

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.html

>   I want one of these   and I would love to see a video

John Dom, a rocket man in Sswitzerland, says:

> Navy fires world's most powerful railgun

Feb. 1, 2008...

Wiki is very up to date on this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

Here's your video. Note the ablative blunt sabot cooling. It 

looks like an

ICBM RV.

gizmodo.com/351467/navy-rail-gun-test-destroys-everything-it-touches-

at-5640-mph

This URL has a peel open version sabot separation picture 

(or photo

imitation)

www.defenseindustrydaily.com/bae-producing-scaleddown-rail-gun-naval-

weapon-01986/

I have a problem believing a spike of heat resistant metal 

to cause much

damage. There must be more to it to make it dissipate its 

kinetic energy on

a target.

jd

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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 04:54:09PM +1300, Jinx wrote:

{Quote hidden}> > and I would love to see a video

> 

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI

> 

> Picture

> 

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun

> 

> Worldâ€™s Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to Navy

> 

> www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4231461.html

> 

> Not your grandpa's shootin' iron

> 

> http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.html

Or build your own:

http://coilgun.ru

Ok, actually coil guns, which work a little differently, but anything

with no moving parts that can shoot a projectile is pretty impressive,

especially how some of those projects got the whole assembly into toy

handgun cases.

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http://petertodd.org

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