Railgun Gracefully Blasts an Aerodynamic Round Seven Kilometers Through A Steel Plate

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  Apr 20, 2011 6:05 AM GMT

  Peace through superior firepower?
  
  http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-04/video-railgun-blasts-aerodynamic-round-seven-kilometers-through-steel-plate
  
  

  This amazing video, created by Defense Tech, shows the latest test of General Atomics' high-speed railgun. Where earlier attempts have fired ungainly missiles that tumbled end-over-end through the air like "hypersonic bricks," this one uses a sabot round, which flies straight and smoothly for a distance of seven kilometers, AFTER punching through a solid steel plate.

  
  
  

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  Apr 20, 2011 11:21 AM GMT

  so uh.........where are we on that whole AIDS thing?

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  Apr 20, 2011 1:00 PM GMT

  riddler78 saidPeace through superior firepower?

  
  
  Heheh i am sure you are right,its like atomic bombs and nuclear ones.This is more peaceful
  
  

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  Apr 20, 2011 2:03 PM GMT

  Your headline makes it sound like the steel plates is 7 kilometers thick. I am disappointed indeed.

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  Apr 21, 2011 12:26 AM GMT

  If there was such a thing as "peace through superior firepower" we would've had peace already.
  
  So, no.

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  Apr 21, 2011 12:40 AM GMT

  Those are the wave of the future. Amazingly accurate weapon, an array of those on a warship could really do some damage. And it's magnetic, so there is no recoil. The ship can fire and fire as fast as the gun can charge.

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  Apr 21, 2011 12:46 AM GMT

  There's a railgun in a trashy novel by Kevin Anerson and Doug Beason entitles Ill Wind. It's a pretty good read for a beach novel. It's full of techy stuff and a plague that challenges humanity. A good read.

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  Apr 21, 2011 12:47 AM GMT

  sdgman saidThose are the wave of the future. Amazingly accurate weapon, an array of those on a warship could really do some damage.

  
  
  Finally we can address the real problems in this world!

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  Apr 21, 2011 12:52 AM GMT

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  sdgman saidThose are the wave of the future. Amazingly accurate weapon, an array of those on a warship could really do some damage.

  
  
  Finally we can address the real problems in this world!

  
  
  Next stop, Republican national convention.
  
  that was mean. Who said that.

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  Apr 21, 2011 1:25 AM GMT

  Ariodante said

  sdgman saidThose are the wave of the future. Amazingly accurate weapon, an array of those on a warship could really do some damage.

  
  
  Finally we can address the real problems in this world!

  They're gonna be used against the govt?

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  Apr 21, 2011 3:04 AM GMT

  Tazo995 saidIf there was such a thing as "peace through superior firepower" we would've had peace already.
  
  So, no.

  
  
  Exactly.....

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  Apr 21, 2011 3:06 AM GMT

  The rail gun is my favorite weapon for killing monsters in Doom. Almost as effective as the BFG gun (Big Fuckin' Gun)

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