Sunday, December 12, 2010

U.S. Navy Tests Shiny New Railgun

Thanks to Hollywood, the enduring impression of railguns in the public mind usually revolves around the Schwarzenegger movie Eraser and the last Transformers sequel, where it was used to dispatch a giant Decepticon that was tearing a Giza Pyramid apart.


The reality of railguns is far from its cinematic depiction but doesn’t suffer a corresponding lack of awesomeness. The U.S. Navy just conducted its most devastating test to date, firing a metal projectile that destroyed a target a hundred

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