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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,327205,00.html

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DAHLGREN, Va. —  A futuristic weapon getting a trial run by the Navy demonstrated its destructive power at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren.

In the demonstration Thursday, engineers fired the electromagnetic railgun at what they said was a record power level: 10 megajoules.

The previous railgun power-use record was about 9 megajoules of muzzle energy.



Railguns use electromagnetic energy to launch projectiles long distances — more than 200 nautical miles.

Because the railgun uses electricity and not gunpowder to fire projectiles, it eliminates the possibility of explosions on ships.

The Navy hopes the railgun will eventually replace the standard 5-inch gun on its ships. The weapon isn't expected to be deployed until at least 2020.

[A joule is defined as the energy needed to produce one watt of electricity for one second.

The railgun tested Thursday actually has a capacity of 32 megajoules, but the Navy is slowly building up the energy level in a series of tests.

That's a lot of power, but with a new series of electrically-powered ships coming on line, the Navy figures generating capacity will not be a problem.

According to the Navy, the railgun, when fully developed, will be able to launch solid projectiles at Mach 5, or about 3,700 mph.]
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- fistandantilus3.0   Navy: Accelerate your Railgun   Feb 1 2008, 02:05 PM
- - hobgoblin   electrically powered ships? more like they have so...   Feb 1 2008, 02:16 PM
- - Nightwalker450   Lots of sailors running around in giant hamster wh...   Feb 1 2008, 02:20 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   QUOTE (hobgoblin) electrically powered ships? more...   Feb 1 2008, 04:38 PM
- - stevebugge   QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Feb 1 20...   Feb 1 2008, 04:44 PM
- - mfb   QUOTE (Nightwalker450)Lots of sailors running arou...   Feb 1 2008, 04:47 PM
- - Stahlseele   our(german) submarines are actually powered by big...   Feb 1 2008, 04:47 PM
- - bluedragon7   QUOTE (Stahlseele) our(german) submarines are actu...   Feb 1 2008, 05:40 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (bluedragon7) QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Feb 1...   Feb 1 2008, 06:01 PM
- - imperialus   IIRC I think they still use a high efficancy diese...   Feb 1 2008, 06:05 PM
- - Stahlseele   and no more poisonous gas when hit by salt water ....   Feb 1 2008, 06:10 PM
- - bluedragon7   they have to refuel once a while to get new hydrog...   Feb 1 2008, 06:20 PM
- - hobgoblin   there is always these babies: http://en.wikipedia....   Feb 1 2008, 06:24 PM
- - bluedragon7   they are also aip, using a sterling engine with di...   Feb 1 2008, 06:32 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...I remember seeing something about Sterling Engi...   Feb 1 2008, 06:40 PM
- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (bluedragon7) they are also aip, using a ste...   Feb 1 2008, 07:35 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (hobgoblin) strange that wikipedia say that ...   Feb 1 2008, 11:21 PM
- - hobgoblin   i did a bit of searching, and other sites say the ...   Feb 1 2008, 11:33 PM
- - Stahlseele   gee, wonder why O.o perhaps you should find yours...   Feb 1 2008, 11:36 PM
- - hobgoblin   thing is, if they could talk about it on tv, why i...   Feb 1 2008, 11:43 PM
- - Stahlseele   'cause on the net you'd probably actually ...   Feb 1 2008, 11:45 PM
- - hobgoblin   looks like i either have memory corruption, or the...   Feb 1 2008, 11:53 PM
- - Stahlseele   of course they lied into their face O.o people do...   Feb 1 2008, 11:56 PM
- - hobgoblin   and then the webpage of the maker of said engine g...   Feb 2 2008, 12:01 AM
- - Stahlseele   disinformation is one of the strongest weapons in ...   Feb 2 2008, 12:15 AM
- - Riley37   QUOTE (fistandantilus3.0) Because the railgun uses...   Feb 2 2008, 08:23 AM
|- - hobgoblin   QUOTE (Riley37 @ Feb 2 2008, 09:23 AM) Th...   Feb 2 2008, 11:37 PM
|- - Riley37   The original quote says it prevents ALL explosions...   Feb 3 2008, 01:32 PM
- - DTFarstar   The projectiles themselves can still be fissionabl...   Feb 2 2008, 08:37 AM
- - kzt   Typically insensitive modern explosives are safer ...   Feb 2 2008, 08:43 AM
- - nezumi   Drek! Somebody else thought the stupid, purpl...   Feb 3 2008, 04:11 AM
- - hobgoblin   heh, if you can point me to a copy of acme magic c...   Feb 3 2008, 05:52 AM
|- - Fortune   QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Feb 3 2008, 04:52 PM) ...   Feb 3 2008, 07:20 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Ship guns are no longer considered the optimal way...   Feb 3 2008, 08:39 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Oh yeah, and the DD-1000 uses a traditional destro...   Feb 3 2008, 08:54 AM
- - DocTaotsu   Ha! My bad, I totally missed that. Chalk that...   Feb 3 2008, 02:21 PM

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