Navy Railgun Successfully Fires Multi-Shot Salvos

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) demonstrates the Navy's electromagnetic railgun initial rep-rate fires of multi-shot salvos at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. The revolutionary railgun relies on a massive electrical pulse, rather than gunpowder or other chemical propellants, to launch projectiles at distances over 100 nautical miles – and at speeds that exceed Mach 6. (U.S. Navy video/Released)

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[rexvulcan]

Ah I remember when armor mattered, the good ol days... still awesome though.

[therealjames]

The era of using armor is closing to an end. RIP

[James-cbnb]

Do they sell these on Amazon? I have some squirrel problems in my back garden.

[chickenofthecave]

That is awesome. When will we be seeing one of these bad boys on a warship? Maybe create a new Battleship or find a way to implement it onto one of the Iowa Class in place of their 16 Inch cannons?

[HitLeftistsWithHammers]

Half a billion dollars later the project is now dead.

[ghostmourn]

Hang your hats on this one @U.S. Navy its the Apollo mission of fire support. 💥💥💥
The Navy should put this on the Zumwalt - even if its really expensive. It would lend success to both projects and reinvigorate the US Navys reputation.

[devilstaste]

make the bullet into a 4 sideded corkscrew with the help of a needle in the center of the bulletin U can give a little more thrust in the center it will go through anything with the help of a rail gun base is equivalent too tip

[spongebobpopsicle]

Achievement unlocked: Scaled up five mega fucktons

[someasiandude]

Ah I remember when people thought this was the weapon of the future, a crap ton of explosives on a metal rod of fuel still reigns supreme

[davidbarkdoll]

So, if this is an electro magnetic gun, what is the puff of "smoke" at the discharge?

[jessicabeaudry]

What's with the smoke after each round. Like zero gunpowder involved and I can't see the heat causing this alone unless that's steam or vapors... Idk just thought I'd ask what's good anyone know

[randomuser]

I'm surprised they don't use carriers and other ships to hook up together to get enough power to fire them. If nto add bouyees in the ocean attached to things designed to farm the electricity from the ocean or air. windmeals or underwater currents or giant ocean surface solarpanels, or anything to generate the power. If the point is to fire from obscene ranges just sit out of range and collect the power to fire. Even if it takes a bit to build up it could might be worthwhile to fire at long range targets that might cost lives otherwise. Then those smaller boats helping the carriers could still fire long ranged rail guns in support of any planes.

Assuming the problem is power generation. Most of this could be carried and deployed from carriers and support ships if needed.

[Cellinia.]

Perhaps keeping the barrel in a vacuum state until the instant it is fired would stop the problem of air turning to plasma in the barrel reducing some of the heat issues

[randomuser]

I was watching a video saying it's problem is heat. What if it was on a boyee/platform in the ocean that is deployable and uses constant sea water and other things to stop the heat problems. I would think any ship could do this also. Surround it with enough water to take all heat away as part of the gun. Just need enough heat transfer I would think to give it desired operation. Infinite power with enough carriers/solar arrays floating in the sea(assuming a power issue.) how would this not be easily dealt with?

It could have coils built in or surrounding parts of the gun to get heat way from vital spots and control it I would assume. Probably look cool with water coils around it too. Or whatever was used for heat transfer.

Boyee based ones could be used as deep field artillery over what I'm assuming is lower trajectory ship mounted ones. Maybe even coastal orbital bombardment if it can get it's projectile high enough. Assuming that helps.

[MrUranium]

cool, use it to shoot something into space