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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
New Navy Rail Gun Fires 50 Miles With No Propellant: Latest Tests Use Smaller Guns
The Navy has begun a critical phase in its quest for a revolutionary weapon that could reach out and touch someone with massive force at more than 100 miles, without using an ounce of gun powder or rocket fuel.
The Navy has fired six test shots with the first of two industry prototypes of an electromagnetic rail gun, a weapon that uses a massive surge of electricity to propel a 40-pound hunk of metal to seven times the speed of sound in an instant, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) said today.
The device produced by BAE Systems already has demonstrated a power level strong enough to fire a projectile 50 nautical miles, Roger Ellis, EM Rail gun program manager at ONR, said.
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