Us Navy Railgun Shoots Using Magnets At 5,600 Mph! Wow

[toyotafan]

Sorry, I guess just honoring the Navy as we just saw December 7th come and go again, and noticed the US Zumwalt got sent out to sea yesterday. Anyhow, I saw this little tease on the Navy's railgun and I had no idea this type of technology was able to get projectiles up to this speed, that's just amazing. Magnets? really? That's awesome!

 

[tbplus10]

The technology is actually a little older than the Navy advertises.
Not long before my last active duty tour, 2009, I got to see a few trial shoots of metal slugs.
The tech was developed in parallel with the new catapult launch tech, they share many similarities and theories.

 

[toyotafan]

Yeah, they've been talking about these for about 25 years ever since the superconductor systems started getting funding. Someone thought that if magnets can propel a mega ton train at 200 mph, why not a projectile at 2000 mph, or in this case 5600.