Rail gun tech makes me want to work at +BAE Systems, Inc.
Hello Sci Fi here we come..
Hello Sci Fi here we come..
Advanced US Military Technology: Electromagnetic …: http://youtu.be/atwU5bgXEao
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I can't wait to see the videos from the on ship testing.
This is a very interesting technology… No explosives needed just kinetic weapons in general are amazing at what speed and weight can do..
I can see this working best in a carrier, or a yet-to-be-announced nuclear-class destroyer.
I got another neat-o thing for you +Brent Burzycki I'll tag you in when I post it.
+Olav Folland I would assume this would be deployed on a new destroyer… But it's not a huge weapon but I can only imagine the power requirements… New laser tech was just shown by Sandia I think.. Actually maybe LLNL cutting airborne based laser systems much more viable… I would not mind a 747 based missile killing laser based weapons system..
We're getting into Real Genius territory here.
With both it's not the incident power, it's the charging power – how much juice you can throw at the cap banks to recharge them between cycles. Without a huge power plant on a plane, it'd be about as effective as the laser in Real Genius – one shot, by the time it recharges you're almost home.
The old "Star Wars" space-borne lasers to have some merit though – big laser, multiple cap arrays, and the thing just sits there right where you want it, primed until needed. -Of course that's only valid for ICBMs, but in that case there's the double bonus of the missile getting to the slowest portion of its journey as it comes into range.
S-S or A-S missiles are a biatch because they're so small. If they're coming at you, you may only have an 8-10" profile to target on. Why the "spray and pray" of the R2-D2 are pretty effective.
SeaWiz is an awesome gun. Wall of lead that nothing gets through.
Depleted Uranium baby 😀
Nothing like DU rounds for a fun sunday afternoon…
+Olav Folland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
They are trying to cut the size of that system in half with the new laser tech…
I remember that now that you mention it – still, requires it to be in the air already, you know?