Rail gun firing

[MintJulep]

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4454912/navy-tests-electromagnetic-railgun/

 

[VEBill]

I was just watching the video and all my credit cards got demagnetized. ;-)

 

[IRstuff]

Apparently, it cooked the video itself, as well, since the video is no longer operable.

TTFN

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[ScottyUK]

The video works ok, a bit lumpy on my computer because of slow connection speed.


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[IRstuff]

Still nuttin...

Must be those censors at work. I can see what appears to be raw video with ambient sounds only, no voice over on a couple of other web sites, but not the Fox one.

The video sequence of the sabot coming off the projectile is pretty neat.

By way of comparison, a 105-mm APFSDS round has about 7.3 MJ of initial kinetic energy

TTFN

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[Compositepro]

I don't have any problem viewing it.

 

[johnwm]

Easy to view, but with no commentary or explanation, who knows what we are seeing or what it means?

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[Pud]

I assume it will be some time before it becomes an infantry weapon?

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[ScottyUK]

Wait until you see the results of the infantry growth-to-inhuman-proportions programme...


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[alehman]

Some video from an earlier test.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54aLcC3G74

Alan
“The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.” Unk.

 

[Latexman]

The IT police where I work have applied the "Access Denied" policy to everything on utube. Trusting souls aren't they?

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[JStephen]

Someday, I'll be telling my greatgrandkids, "Why I remember when a railgun took up a whole warehouse, and now you have one in your cell phone!"

 

[ivymike]

oh god, and just think what the "cellphones are cooking your brain" crowd will have to say about that!

 

[boo1]

World-record electromagnetic railgun 33-megajuole shot

 

[MikeHalloran]

In addition to the mass and bulk challenges, they need to work on the cyclic rate of fire, which seems to be about one projectile per four years or so.

... Which is about as fast as the MHD boys are coming along, I think.





Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[boo1]

The Navy has been working on railgun technology since around 2005. In 2006, it tested an 8-megajoule firing; in 2008, a 10.64-megajoule firing was conducted. Dec 10, 2010 , which was conducted at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Dahlgren, Virginia, broke all previous tests in a 33-megajoule firing.