Railgun - Wikipedia
WEBIn 2010, the United States Navy tested a BAE Systems-designed compact-sized railgun for ship emplacement that accelerated a 3.2 kg (7 pound) projectile to hypersonic velocities of approximately 3,390 m/s (7,600 mph; 12,200 km/h; 11,100 ft/s), or about Mach 10, with 18.4 MJ of kinetic energy. It was the first time in history that such levels of ...
US Navy ditches futuristic railgun, eyes hypersonic missiles - Defense News
WEB1 Jul 2021 · BATH, Maine — The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.
U.S. Navy Demonstrates World's Most Powerful Electromagnetic Railgun …
WEB31 Jan 2008 · At full capability, the rail gun will be able to fire a projectile more than 200 nautical miles at a muzzle velocity of mach seven and impacting its target at mach five. In contrast, the current...
Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun - Wikipedia
WEBThe Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun is a long-range naval weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails to launch projectiles at 4,500 mph to 5,600 mph. Electricity generated by the ...
The Navy’s electromagnetic railgun is officially dead
WEB6 Jul 2021 · After more than 15 years and half a billion dollars in funding, the Navy’s dream of building an electromagnetic railgun capable of nailing targets up to 100 nautical miles away at velocities...
the US Navy’s electromagnetic railgun programme - Naval …
WEB27 Sep 2012 · The US Navy's electromagnetic railgun programme has a chequered history of scientific breakthrough and budget busting. Berenice Baker profiles a warship weapon that can launch projectiles at Mach 10 without explosives, and explores whether investment is justified in hardware that guzzles energy and risks blowing itself to …
US Navy to test BAE Systems' electromagnetic railgun in February
WEB9 Feb 2012 · The United States Navy has received a 32-megajoule Electromagnetic Railgun from BAE Systems, and it will begin testing the weapon later in February. Electromagnetic railguns uses...
With a Bang, Navy Begins Tests on Electromagnetic Railgun …
WEB28 Feb 2012 · ARLINGTON, Va.— Engineers have fired the Navy’s first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher at a test facility, commencing an evaluation that is an important...
Navy's Electromagnetic Railgun Reaches Testing Milestone
WEB30 Oct 2011 · The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Materials Testing Facility demonstrated, Oct.31, the one-thousandth successful firing of its Electromagnetic Railgun, reaching a materials testing...
Navy Sets New World Record With Latest Electromagnetic Railgun …
WEB10 Dec 2010 · The Office of Naval Research (ONR) achieved a milestone Dec. 10 when it successfully conducted a world-record 33 megajoule shot of the Electromagnetic Railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center...
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