Future Military Technology - U.S. Navy Electromagnetic Railgun

The EM Railgun launcher is a long-range 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 ship is stored over several seconds in the pulsed power system. Next, an electric pulse is sent to the railgun, creating an electromagnetic force accelerating the projectile to Mach 7.5. Using its extreme speed on impact, the kinetic energy warhead eliminates the hazards of high explosives in the ship and unexploded ordnance on the battlefield.

Office of Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun Program Commissioning Test of BAE built railgun at NSWC Dahlgren. Courtesy Video | Defense Media Activity -Navy

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0:14 All software should have a massive button that just says 'ABORT!!!'

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put it on the truck and we have end of tanks