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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Navy's New Super-Weapon Is On Track For Testing Later This Month


ONR testers will fire off a BAE Systems-built version of the weapon next week at the Navy's surface warfare center in Dahlgren, VA., according to Roger Ellis, head of the Railgun program at the Office of Naval Research's Air Warfare and Weapons department.

Another rail gun variant built by defense firm General Atomics will arrive at Dahlgren sometime in April for testing, a service spokesman said.

There is no word when Raytheon is expected to begin testing their rail gun variant.

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