Thread: US navy has a kick ass RAIL GUN

The rorsche is a rail gun. Now, if the infamous Sjt is on 2142 I must log on as well. This is a rare treat it is.

Tell me that reading these paragraphs, it didn't sound like the prologue to some covert agent style video game...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy said it generated on Thursday the strongest-ever force of its kind used to fire a futuristic weapon designed to boost naval gunfire range more than 10 times by 2020.

The Office of Naval Research said it had demonstrated a "revolutionary" technology that could turn U.S. warships into super-long-range machine guns capable of firing relatively inexpensive rounds with near pinpoint accuracy.

Development of the so-called electromagnetic railgun began in earnest in 2006 under contracts awarded to BAE Systems and closely held General Atomics, which produces the Predator family of remotely piloted aircraft.

The system, when fully developed, would send an electric current along parallel rails to shoot a shell more than 200 nautical miles, or 230 miles, at seven times the speed of sound and within five meters of the target. Conventional guns, by contrast, rely on chemical powders to launch projectiles.

lol

I saw Solid Snake or that guy from Splinter Cell in my mind.

LOL actually, I remember the idea of a railgun way back when I used to play BattleMech. Except they called them Gauss Rifles

Originally Posted by Glock

Originally Posted by MacDre707

lol was anyone else thinking of those guns in Red Faction that can shoot through walls when they saw this? I was kinda dissapointed...then I realized how incredibly awesome and groundbreaking this weapon is.

AMERICA! FUCK YEA! :6

Railguns are a Quake invention :P