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Monday, July 10, 2006

BAE Producing Scaled-Down Rail Gun Naval Weapon

BAE Armament Systems Division in Minneapolis, MN has received a pair of contracts for the "design and production of the 32 MJ Laboratory Launcher for the U.S. Navy." The design and fabrication of the 32 MJ Lab Launcher that can launch a projectile at Mach 8 will be a major step toward development of a full scale tactical 64 MJ EM Gun weapon system for the U.S. Navy. The two contracts together are worth almost $15 million.

Some hint of what they are talking about can be gleaned from the name... and now BAE has added more details.

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