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The Navy has begun developing a futuristic “hypercannon” that could someday hit a target more than 200 miles away, using technology that may be more familiar to students of science fiction than modern naval weaponry.

Known as an electromagnetic railgun, the weapon uses electricity instead of gunpowder to fire projectiles.

In a dramatic first step, the Office of Naval Research said yesterday that it fired the electromagnetic gun using an unprecedented pulse of energy in a test held Thursday in Dahlgren, Va.

During the test, the gun almost instantaneously propelled an aluminum slug weighing slightly more than 7 pounds to Mach 7 – or more than seven times the speed of sound.

The railgun has the potential to fire a projectile 230 miles, a trajectory that would take just seven minutes. By contrast, a standard 5-inch naval gun battery can fire a shell 20 miles.
As Wil Smith said in "Independance Day"...

"I gotta get me one of these!!!"...

Mach...friggin'...7...
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< drool >
Any demo videos out there?
Holy crap!
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All I could find so far......

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See if my neighbors park in the spot I shoveled out again!!...
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I'm sure the use of hypercannon gun benefits military and government. Good for fighting terrorism...
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