The US Navy's Electromagnetic Rail Gun that is under development at NSWC Dahlgren in Virginia. This is a prototype to demonstrate the technology of the rail gun for use on the future DDG-1000 class...
The US Navy's Electromagnetic Rail Gun that is under development at NSWC Dahlgren in Virginia. This is a prototype to demonstrate the technology of the rail gun for use on the future DDG-1000 class of Navy ships. This clip is from the show FutureWeapons on the Discovery Channel. It aired in April 2007. The show occasionally repeats on the Military Channel (part of the Discovery Channel family). (NOTE - This has nothing to do with the movie Transformers 2.)
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also they can still show the basics and keep most of the data classified. ever been to an air show. ever get close to the stealth fighter. they will let you get close maybe even peer into the cock-pit but they won't let you see it with all the doo-dads turned on.
By the time we see this stuff, It's already been in development for well over a decade. Some of the planes used in dessert storm an iraqi freedom are only now being made public, and even in these cases the details are still top secret. The only reason we get to see this is because there is either something better thats already been made, or the technology has been discovered and made public by somebody else.
The concept for a rail gun being used by the military has actually been around since post WW2, same goes for many other modern weapons. Idea's usually come far ahead of the technology needed to create them. There are a few exceptions here and there tho. The SR-71 Blackbird for example, 60's tech, and still more useful than modern satellites, just not as economical...
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