Rail Gun Breaks Own Record
Fox News reports that the Navy’s experimental Rail Gun has tripled its projectile energy output …
An electromagnetic railgun offers a velocity previously unattainable in a conventional weapon, speeds that are incredibly powerful on their own. In fact, since the projectile doesn’t have any explosives itself, it relies upon that kinetic energy to do damage. And at 11 a.m. today, the Navy produced a 33-megajoule firing — more than three times the previous record set by the Navy in 2008.
“It bursts radially, but it’s hard to quantify,” said Roger Ellis, electromagnetic railgun program manager with the Office of Naval Research. To convey a sense of just how much damage, Ellis told FoxNews.com that the big guns on the deck of a warship are measured by their muzzle energy in megajoules. A single megajoule is roughly equivalent to a 1-ton car traveling at 100 mph. Multiple that by 33 and you get a picture of what would happen when such a weapon hits a target.
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I remember the ‘Super Cannon’ that Saddam Hussein had. Hell they even made a movie about it. It was able to hit Israel. You know what? I don't think it fire a single shot because IIRC a cruise missile hit it at the start of the first Gulf War.
All that money could have spent better spent improving other needed military technology.
I'm not saying the the cannon ever worked but the guy who invented it was likely assassinated by Mossad, which means his invention was deemed a credible threat.
Potential advanced weapon technology like that never disappears just changes hands. The deal the U.S made after WWII with the Japanese Unit 731 is an example.