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2009-11-11 Science & Technology

Electromagnetic Railgun Air Defence Test Fired Successfully

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 and will culminate with the launch of tactically relevant aerodynamic rounds

Man, THAT'S a long way to go to say 'live fire'.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-11-11 09:51|| 2009-11-11 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Tesla lives!

Posted by borgboy 2009-11-11 10:13|| 2009-11-11 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 No military background, but I have to wonder how viable a system is that requires magawatts of juice in a combat situation where your infrastructure can be disrupted by a single hit?

Hope there's gonna be some purely mechanical backup.

Posted by Percy Omaiper7354 2009-11-11 13:00|| 2009-11-11 13:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I can answer that without ever seeing the machine.
Military weapons carry their own Generators with them and are NOT dependent on ANYTHING else.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-11-11 13:08|| 2009-11-11 13:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Absolutely. The generator set and it's crew will be right there with the weapon along with the gun crew. Perhaps they should be armoured?

Posted by .5MT 2009-11-11 13:37|| 2009-11-11 13:37|| Front Page Top

#6 No, it comes standard with a 5000 mile long extension cord.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-11-11 15:14|| 2009-11-11 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Or a parallel series of 40,000 hamster wheels.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-11-11 15:16|| 2009-11-11 15:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The rail gun system had a breakthrough some years ago when the size of inductors and capacitors was radically reduced. In this case from so large they had to be carried on a railroad flatcar, to about the size of a suitcase.

The generator uses a flywheel to gradually accelerate a mass to high speed, then apply a load to generate a heck of a lot of current, measured in megajoules.

This energy goes through the capacitor and inductor as a bandpass circuit, and flows through a thin film conductor behind the projectile. The thin film instantly turns into a conductive plasma that violently expands, giving the projectile speeds of km/sec.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-11 15:27|| 2009-11-11 15:27|| Front Page Top

#9 In the near future railguns are about air defence for ships. Onboard nuclear power preferred.

Posted by phil_b 2009-11-11 16:31|| 2009-11-11 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 An oldie but a goodie - short video of railgun test.

Posted by DMFD 2009-11-11 19:10|| 2009-11-11 19:10|| Front Page Top

#11 WMF > SOUTH KOREAN MEDIAS > ARTIC on gunboat clash between SOKOR, NOKOR indic that NOKOR gunboats were made in CHINA ["SHANGHAI"-class]; + that NOKOR's vessel had to fire its guns manually whilst SOKOR's were automatic = remotew fired [ + more ammo]???

On a separate nore, FREEREPUBLIC > ASTEROID [2009 VA] PASSED 8700 MILES FROM EARTH - WITH ONLY 15 HOURS WARNING. May explain the GIANT FIREBALLS repor on TOPIX???

RAILGUNS FOR, SSSSSSHHHHHH, OWG-NWO + SPACE DEFENSE???

* "UFO" TV SHow > SHA[A]DO Agency = S-UPREME H-EADQUARTERS, A-LIENS AND A-STEROIDS DEFENSE ORGANIZATION???

CHIEF WIGGUM > CUE THE SHORT-SHORT MINISKIRTED BRITISH MOON/SPACE BASE BASE IN GO-GO BOOTS SLOWLY SLINKILY WALKING IN FRONT OF THE FILM CAMERA, LOU!

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-11 21:08|| na]">[na] 2009-11-11 21:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Well there is the small self-contained nuclear reactor which the Japanese are said to be developing. I wonder if it could generate enough wattage.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-11 23:25|| 2009-11-11 23:25|| Front Page Top

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