The 'Railgun' is now a functioning weapon, and soon ready for sea trials!

[Selkirk]

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http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--cSQjbr3F--/oxbtylltxqkonevnnvkn.gif



The speed of the railgun projectile exceeds Mach 7, and has an effective range of over 200 nautical miles (370+ Km). The US Navy plans to start sea trials in 2016.

News article ... http://au.ibtimes.com/us-navys-disruptive-weapon-railgun-be-publicly-displayed-washington-defence-expo-february-1415056

YouTube vid ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCTzIGYeMk


Mac

[Okotokian]

So when do you think Cabelas will carry them? Long range "hunting" guys drooling already. ;)

[Selkirk]

So when do you think Cabelas will carry them? Long range "hunting" guys drooling already. ;)

My thought ^ exactly! :lol:

Mac

[Attilathecanuk]

Wow. Just wow. Just think of what you could do with that....

[IR_mike]

Wow. Just wow. Just think of what you could do with that....

I already have 3 pages of notes!!!

[expmler]

Need to mount a Huskemaw on it.

[KGB]

Wow!!!!!!!!!

[dmcbride]

need to mount a huskemaw on it.

lol. Awesome.

[32-40win]

Okie, save yer sheckles, 25.000.00 a shot's worth.

[Gary K]

i love how the "muzzle blast" has nothing to do with explosives. its just moving that damn fast its a plume of plasma!

heres another article.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/rail-gun-u-s-navy-top-gun-article-1.1749616

Edit:

one more

http://www.ryanbanderson.com/2010/09/06/what-is-a-rail-gun-and-how-does-it-work/

[twofifty]

Need to mount a Huskemaw on it.

Yep, just as seen on TV.

Figuring with such a flat shooter the Husky will make that new round shine.

[recce43]

wow thats on heck of a sabot round

[edmhunter]

ISIS BEWARE! :scared0018:

[twofifty]

Asymmetric warfare is using a $25,000 round to take out:

- a $300 Toyota driven by
- a couple grade three jihadists wielding
- $40 AK knock offs.

The enemy's $380 loss is easily made up by ISIS oil sales to our 'friends' in the rest of the industrialized world.
Our $25,000 'investment' will be paid for by new and/or higher taxes.

At this rate the war will be abandoned before it is lost.

edit: cool gear though.

[recce43]

Asymmetric warfare is using a $25,000 round to take out:

- a $300 Toyota driven by
- a couple grade three jihadists wielding
- $40 AK knock offs.

The enemy's $380 loss is easily made up by ISIS oil sales to our 'friends' in the rest of the industrialized world.
Our $25,000 'investment' will be paid for by new and/or higher taxes.

At this rate the war will be abandoned before it is lost.

ya cause thats what they are going to use it for lol

[Okotokian]

Asymmetric warfare is using a $25,000 round to take out:

- a $300 Toyota driven by
- a couple grade three jihadists wielding
- $40 AK knock offs.

The enemy's $380 loss is easily made up by ISIS oil sales to our 'friends' in the rest of the industrialized world.
Our $25,000 'investment' will be paid for by new and/or higher taxes.

At this rate the war will be abandoned before it is lost.

edit: cool gear though.

What do you think it costs to send 6 CF-18's with hundreds of support crew to the theatre, then plan and execute a sortie to drop one or two bombs? I bet a heck of a lot more than $25,000 for each ISIS combatant killed. Wouldn't surprise me if we were spending a million dollars for each kill. Troops on ground guiding in rail gun munitions would be WAY cheaper. Of course we are talking years from now.

[twofifty]

Oko, no doubt you are totally right about the higher cost per kill of an F-18 mission when the cost of supporting the 6-pack is all in.

My whole point is that we are engaged in a war where the enemy spends pennies for every twenty that we spend = not sustainable.
I don't know what the alternatives are, but this thing is gonna bankrupt the West is the take-away.

[jungleboy]

Some things , money can't buy , for everything else ,there's Mastercard:sHa_shakeshout:

[twofifty]

lol. Right on.

[leeaspell]

But what's the best rail gun ammo for grizzly defense?

[Okotokian]

My whole point is that we are engaged in a war where the enemy spends pennies for every twenty that we spend = not sustainable.
I don't know what the alternatives are, but this thing is gonna bankrupt the West is the take-away.

Heck, we are fighting an enemy whose PEOPLE are their warhead delivery system. Talk about a smart bomb.

Maybe we just need to build fake police stations and checkpoints and let them expend their zealots on those. ;)

[dmac]

a 15 second blast from a mini gun is all that is required to take care of the three jihadists in the toyota. Its all about cost benefit analysis.

[qwert]

Some things , money can't buy , for everything else ,there's Mastercard:sHa_shakeshout:

Correction,
Some things , money can't buy , for everything else ,there's The Federal Reserve.

you can substitute any BIS affiliated central bank of any country.

A private for profit corporation, backed and guaranteed by the 'full faith and credit' of the taxpayer, = neo-serfdom.

God save us all.

[edmhunter]

Need to mount a Huskemaw on it.

Just ordered one on ebay, when I get it I'll mount my Huskemaw on it and take it to the range and send pictures of the results! :)

[fordtruckin]

Need to mount a Huskemaw on it.

screw the huskemaw I want the targeting system from an Abrams on mine!:sHa_shakeshout:

[Gary K]

a 15 second blast from a mini gun is all that is required to take care of the three jihadists in the toyota. Its all about cost benefit analysis.

And who fires the said minigun?
It would be a heavily supported soilder.
Its more than just the team on the ground.
the humvee, the UAV's, the Helo's and aircraft above, the base, the mess tent, mechanics for the humvee, helo, or aircraft.

all adds up!

[Double-Eh]

Never you worry about how much the American military needs to spend per round or per confirmed kill. China has virtually endless trillions of lending money and borrowing is entirely inconsequential. 'Murica!!

[Selkirk]

But what's the best rail gun ammo for grizzly defense?

Ya, an' I got another question ... what's the recoil like on that thing?! :scared0015:

Mac ;)

[bat119]

I wonder how they deal with the curvature of the earth?

You can only see directly for about 70 miles some sort of guidance system I assume?

I wonder what 7000 kph. is in FPS

[fish gunner]

I wonder how they deal with the curvature of the earth?

You can only see directly for about 70 miles some sort of guidance system I assume?

I wonder what 7000 kph. is in FPS
Just over 11000 fps or 3300 mps. Roughly twice the speed of a modern apfsds round out of a smooth bore gun which is abt 1600mps . Coriolis (sp?) Calculations are run off abt time over distance based roughly at 1000mph . So many other factors in these kind of shots. suns orintation on the barrel , barrel wear ? As only the driving bands of the sabot contact the barrel. Barometric changes over shot distance . A modern mbt can get shot solutions with a combination of togs and the lazer out to abt 15k not aware of any shots being taken . The graticule works to 3.2 k, this would make corrections past that distance very difficult. 5.2k is the max ive witnessed . With our artillery sight and an elevated firing platfom indirect fire can be made to 25 k though a FO is required for correction . This tech has been in the skunk works for a long time getting the size down being the issue . At mach 7 the target would need to be exceeding 100mph at 15k to even be considered moving :sHa_shakeshout:

[denpacc]

I wonder how they deal with the curvature of the earth?

You can only see directly for about 70 miles some sort of guidance system I assume?

I wonder what 7000 kph. is in FPS

6379.42 fps

[Selkirk]

6379.42 fps

Yup, that's ^ well over a mile per second ... or ~2 Km per second! :scared0015:

It gives a new meaning to the word 'fast' :lol:

Mac

[fish gunner]

Yup, that's ^ well over a mile per second ... or ~2 Km per second! :scared0015:

It gives a new meaning to the word 'fast' :lol:

Mac

My math was also off:budo:just under 8000fps. . Would be correct I forgot mach number changes with altitude. :sHa_sarcasticlol: silly me .

[Selkirk]

OK, so lets just say it goes really, really, really, really, ... fast X 100. :D

Mac ;)

[timsesink]

I can't wait to use this for my Suffield Bull elk hunt next fall. Attach that to the bed of my truck and bring a pool noodle!

[fish gunner]

I can't wait to use this for my Suffield Bull elk hunt next fall. Attach that to the bed of my truck and bring a pool noodle!

It would turn your truck inside out lol and it would be of no use on a soft target... you might find a section of spine... twenty odd ft from impact . Notice the projectile compressing the air into plasma prior to impact with the concrete. :)

[wolf308]

this is effing crazy ................

thought it was kinda ..... hmmm..... wishful thinking for a railgun / video game stuff

NUTS!!!!

MURICA!!!!

[sikwhiskey]

Pretty cool. Rail guns will be in space shooting down in the future, and perhaps even be mounted to bombers in the next 10-20 years.

[Selkirk]

- The days of; "keeping yer powder dry" may soon be over ... you'll have to; "keep yer battery charged" instead! :lol:

- It's a sad day for all the 'magnum' guys out there ... now they're just a bunch of girly-boy wussies! :sHa_sarcasticlol:


Praise the Lawrd, an' pass me another railgun projectile,

Mac ;)

[fogducker]

You have just been erased. They must have been working on that thing a long time Arny has been retired for a few years.

[billycap]

The handheld model is not quite there yet. This guy might be heading in the right direction though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeJsaCiGQ0

[BBD]

I can't wait to use this for my Suffield Bull elk hunt next fall. Attach that to the bed of my truck and bring a pool noodle!Do you think it might taint the meat? :scared0018:

[Selkirk]

Do you think it might taint the meat? :scared0018:

Meat??? ... what meat???

It would all be vaporized :lol:

Mac

[JBE]

Oko, no doubt you are totally right about the higher cost per kill of an F-18 mission when the cost of supporting the 6-pack is all in.

My whole point is that we are engaged in a war where the enemy spends pennies for every twenty that we spend = not sustainable.
I don't know what the alternatives are, but this thing is gonna bankrupt the West is the take-away.

We put more value on our lives than they do on theirs

[Selkirk]

We put more value on our lives than they do on theirs

But many would argue, that ^ is our major self-defeating failing. We put way far too much value on our no-account, insignificant, worthless individual lives. And that is why, in the end, we will be totally, utterly defeated.

Yes?

Mac

[Okotokian]

You know all those nerds in AV club in junior high? They grew up, earned PhD's and got access to hundreds of billions in Defence Department budget. Result? Really NEAT-O rail gun!