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3D printing used to make first real handheld railgun, which fires plasma projectiles at 560 mph. By Zach Epstein. Updated Dec 19th, 2018 9:07PM EST.
On Feb. 26, ONR announced that it was getting ready to test the gun’s first prototype, built by private defense contractor BAE Systems, at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren, Va.
It fires a 40-pound metal slug up to 5,600 miles per hour from New York to Philadelphia, slamming into its target with 32 times the force of a "1-ton car ...
The word "railgun" invokes images of an impossibly destructive weapon annihilating monsters and aliens. But the railgun is real -- and the U.S. Navy has proved it in a record-setting test.
If this is true, then China has placed a real railgun on a warship before the U.S. Navy, which has been testing its own railgun on land for years.
He said he would like to see a railgun demonstrated at sea by 2018 and deployed on ships in the early 2020s. After that, further research could make the gun even more powerful. He said the project ...
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For years now, Navy officials have been boosting a new technology, the railgun, as an ideal next-generation piece of artillery for America’s ships. But there’s good reason to believe it won ...
Fanta suggests that the Navy could put a real railgun weapon onto the USS Lyndon B. Johnson, a Zumwalt-class destroyer presently under construction and aiming to be on the seas by 2018.
In December 2018, photos surfaced of the Chinese navy Type 072III-class landing ship Haiyang Shan conducting sea trials with a railgun housing mounted on its bow less than a year after it was ...
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