A Rail gun is in the works!!

[Elie]

http://www.e4engineering.com/story.aspx?uid=1f6a0327-1b70-4d9b-85b1-4667aea3b3be&cuid=b96dad81-0ef4-4fcc-9e3d-a7bd9b6a4258

Someone was playing too much Quake II to think of somthing like this LOL

Cheers,
Elie

[ZokesPro]

I hope that once they make it that it'll be immediately available to the public, or just myself. There's a couple of networks I'd like to fry.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
I hope that once they make it that it'll be immediately available to the public, or just myself. There's a couple of networks I'd like to fry.

hope it's not concerning your taxes!

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by ayoub_ibrahim
hope it's not concerning your taxes!

It wasn't until you mentioned it.

[Wombat]

This news is at least a month old. Much more info in the slashdot article and comments.

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/22/1839207.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=99

And I'm sure some Sci-Fi author wrote of these long ago, at least they're in the Mechwarrior/Battletech universe.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by ZokesPro
I hope that once they make it that it'll be immediately available to the public, or just myself. There's a couple of networks I'd like to fry.

No, you're thinking of HERF guns.

[ZokesPro]

HERF?

[schmosef]

NERF?

[Tjalfe]

High Energy Radio Frequency.. or something like that

[Dr Mordrid]

The US Navy is running up to a concept calle "the all electric ship". Rail guns are to be an integral part of this concept and may be deployed by 2011-2012.

Plans are for the post-Nimitz class of aircraft carriers (CVN-21 program, formerlly CVNX, due in 2012-2013) and the DD(X) cruiser now in development are to be "all electric" ships right down to the aircraft carriers catapults, which now run on steam.

Can you imagine being launched from a carrier by a form of rail launcher?

The projections are calling for the first-gen guns to launch a projectile with an impact velocity of MACH-5, a range of up to 250 miles and a firing rate of 6/minute per gun.

These should be instructive;

http://www.battelle.org/navy/railguns.pdf

http://www.navyleague.org/sea_power/may_04_10.php

GlobalSecurity.org CVN-21 page:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cvx.htm

GlobalSecurity.org DD(X) page:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/dd-x.htm

If you want to make your own rail gun;

http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/rail/rail-intro.html

http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun2.htm

http://web.mit.edu/mouser/www/railgun/halluc/intro.html

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid

Can you imagine being launched from a carrier by a form of rail launcher?

Actually, sounds a lot like maglev. I think it would be easier than a railgun. But...wheeeee!

[schmosef]

It's always fun until someone loses an eye... If everyone just agreed to use Nerf guns, there'd be a lot less worried mothers out there.

(okay, okay, I'm trolling, I'll stop)

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by schmosef
It's always fun until someone loses an eye... If everyone just agreed to use Nerf guns, there'd be a lot less worried mothers out there.

(okay, okay, I'm trolling, I'll stop)

I still like the concept of solving all problems by having the leaders of each nation fight it out in good old fashion hand-to-hand combat.

Jammrock

[schmosef]

Originally posted by Jammrock
I still like the concept of solving all problems by having the leaders of each nation fight it out in good old fashion hand-to-hand combat.

Jammrock

The French would still lose!

[DGhost]

Dr Mordrid - best part about it is they also have plans for a GPS tracked/guided shell for the railgun system...

artillery that is fast, has an incredably long range, can do a shit-ton of damage, *and* is scary-accurate?

hell yeah!