Hmmm, I wonder if they could make a rail gun large enough and powerful enough to fire lead/steel encased used uranium rod segments into deep space thus making atomic energy plants a bit less unsavory. They could do it over an extended period using excess electricity electric plants generate during transitions from day to night energy consumption.
It's a little abstract for many to realize what life would be like on the receiving end of this weapon. Imagine yourself in a tranquil setting and hearing explosions 6 seconds apart. Even radars wouldn't easily detect an incoming barrage of these babies flying in, and if one actually did, there wouldn't even be time to decide what to say in your last prayer or final words. A retaliation order may not even get out if it had to be repeated through a chain of command.
Instead of accelerating a particle (projectile) in a strait line, it would prove more efficient to accelerate the kinetic energy of the projectile by spinning it on itself (using mobius config-wave amplification). Once the projectile has acquired the proper spin speed (kinetic energy) then powerful pulse magnetic fields redirect the spin towards one direction.
Oh great, that is the only thing America is good at now, building weapons. We failed at banking and finance, failed at capitalism and democracy and failed at manufacturing.
good luck withthis one. sounds like a lot of intangibles involved in its production. no explosives necessary to propel shell, but what if the barrell of the weapon itself explodes from forces involved!?
Rail guns don't have barrels, per se. That's why they are called "rail" guns. So they don't have the pressures involved with an explosive charge like a regular gun. That's what makes them safer. It's like a giant electromagnet. And rail guns have been around for years as experiments. Just not really powerful ones.
Actually during the cold war there was often news releases like these. The Rail Gun has been out there as a potential weapons technnology since the Reagan Star Wars program. There are times that programs that need a boost in congressional funding get more press to get popular opinion behind it.
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Instead of accelerating a particle (projectile) in a strait line, it would prove more efficient to accelerate the kinetic energy of the projectile by spinning it on itself (using mobius config-wave amplification). Once the projectile has acquired the proper spin speed (kinetic energy) then powerful pulse magnetic fields redirect the spin towards one direction.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/sandia-labs-self-guided-bullet-for-future-soldiers/