Navy Plans For Sea Trials For Railgun In 2016

[jimmy olsen]

I'm sure Brazen, being an expert, has professional references at her fingertips that far exceed the top returns in google search in value.

[Ed Anger]

No, You are just a lazy shit who expects everybody to do the work for you. Go fuck yourself.

[jimmy olsen]

I think you're taking the internet a bit too seriously.

[Ed Anger]

I enjoyed flinging abuse.

[CountDeMoney]

CdM flings abuse:  intraweb bully, all around nasty person
Ed flings abuse:  lol good one Ed har har har

[Ed Anger]

I'm a scamp.

[CountDeMoney]

Are you posting on Languish so's to escape from reality? Me, I don't need Languish.  I am reality. There's the way it ought to be, and there's the way it is.



I shit on all you.

[Ed Anger]

 

[sbr]

Took me 5 seconds to search for LAWS.

Timmy, you lazy shit.

Tim probably misspelled it and ended up at an article about Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies.

[Neil]

The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy,

That's a hell of a muzzle velocity.

Still, a 23 kg projectile moving at 2400 m/s is less impressive than a 2700 kg projectile moving at 750 m/s.  Advantage:  Dreadnought.

[celedhring]

The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy,

That's a hell of a muzzle velocity.

Still, a 23 kg projectile moving at 2400 m/s is less impressive than a 2700 kg projectile moving at 750 m/s.  Advantage:  Dreadnought.

I have no idea of the ballistics involved, but it doesn't look like the US Navy envisions an anti-ship role for those weapons. Such a short time-to-target would really make them ideal antimissile or AA weapons (provided they can be turned into rapid fire weapons, I'm really not that knowledgeable about the technology's limitations). Anyway, I when I was kid I was promised flying cars and lasers, I'm 35 and still waiting, but this and LaWS are a start...

[dps]

CdM flings abuse:  intraweb bully, all around nasty person
Ed flings abuse:  lol good one Ed har har har

No one thinks you're a nasty person for flinging abuse at Timmay--we all do that.

[Neil]

The U.S. Navy is planning sea trials for a weapon that can fire a low-cost, 23-pound (10-kg) projectile at seven times the speed of sound using electromagnetic energy,

That's a hell of a muzzle velocity.

Still, a 23 kg projectile moving at 2400 m/s is less impressive than a 2700 kg projectile moving at 750 m/s.  Advantage:  Dreadnought.

I have no idea of the ballistics involved, but it doesn't look like the US Navy envisions an anti-ship role for those weapons. Such a short time-to-target would really make them ideal antimissile or AA weapons (provided they can be turned into rapid fire weapons, I'm really not that knowledgeable about the technology's limitations). Anyway, I when I was kid I was promised flying cars and lasers, I'm 35 and still waiting, but this and LaWS are a start...

I wonder how well they'd cope with small, fast-moving targets.  I suppose the Israelis have a laser array which can shoot down artillery shells now as part of the Iron Dome, so it might be plausible.

[Brazen]

I only haven't replied before because my office internet flags this thread up as adult content 

New railgun footage with targets being obliterated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJQfAcBs5vQ

LaWS press release and photo:
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=80172

[derspiess]

There, Timmy.  You happy now?

AND DON'T BABY HIM BRAZEN