US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
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Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#2As usual, I find the music in all of the linked videos delusional, as if this high-tech killing machine was created to astonish patriotic five-year-olds. For the sake of analogy, someone should overlay the same music to the engineering of a-bombs and gas chambers.
Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#3Does the logo the navy use for railguns show it shooting intercontinental?
Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#4As usual, I find the music in all of the linked videos delusional, as if this high-tech killing machine was created to astonish patriotic five-year-olds. For the sake of analogy, someone should overlay the same music to the engineering of a-bombs and gas chambers.
Sorry, are you drawing a parallel between a rail gun and gas chambers?
Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#5As usual, I find the music in all of the linked videos delusional, as if this high-tech killing machine was created to astonish patriotic five-year-olds. For the sake of analogy, someone should overlay the same music to the engineering of a-bombs and gas chambers.
Sorry, are you drawing a parallel between a rail gun and gas chambers?
Sorry, are you implying that a rail gun is that much more humane?
Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#6As usual, I find the music in all of the linked videos delusional, as if this high-tech killing machine was created to astonish patriotic five-year-olds. For the sake of analogy, someone should overlay the same music to the engineering of a-bombs and gas chambers.
I listened to it and agree it sounds very childish. Better would have been to have some intelligent narration, the story in a nutshell. How much energy is required for a railgun? What uses do they have that cannot be done with conventional artillery? what were some of the major challenges faced by the R&D team? All of that could have been explained in the audio track that was instead used for crappy Michael Bay action movie music.
Re: US Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico
#7It looks right. It looks like it could well be the ancestor of the MAC cannons from Halo.
EDIT: I said this to my coworkers a couple of weeks ago: I'm calling it now. Either 1) Naval Railguns also wind up being killer AA weapons and there aren't any game changers in submarine warfare or 2) Railguns are going to be the equivalent of WWII naval cannon -- They won't be nearly as important as something else.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, are you drawing a parallel between a rail gun and gas chambers?
Sorry, are you implying that a rail gun is that much more humane?
Gas being banned under various treaties but a rail gun being essentially a faster version of existing munitions...
Yeah, I probably would say it is.
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#9Is there any active research on this technology for non-rocket launch systems?
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#10Am I supposed to celebrate the spending of untold billions on an unnecessary weapon of death while my Bridges and roads crumble, my health care system sucks and absolutely nothing is being done about, or to prepare for, climate change?? I'm not impressed