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Navy's Record-Breaking Railgun Shot

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Uploaded by on Jan 31, 2008

Check out the Navy's record-breaking blast of an electromagnetic railgun...

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  • It's even more awesome when you realize that it's at 1/500 of normal speed (those are thousandths of a second ticking down there)

  • @FoxhoundDS Somone's in a bad mood...

  • @Lucky777Yo you whore

  • If this is the unclassified video footage, who knows how big the classified ones are!

  • No top comment? THIS IS MY CHANCE!!!

  • Though they have experimented with plasma.

  • Railguns do not shoot laser beams. Quick believing every thing you see in a video game. A railgun is an entirely electrical gun that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails using the same principles as the homopolar motor. Railguns use two sliding or rolling

    contacts [1] that permit a large electric current to pass through the projectile. This current interacts with the strong magnetic fields generated by the rails and this accelerates the projectile.

  • @Vosbraka and making work it better

  • @NightMare5O4 no.... a railgun uses magnets to propel an object at extremely high speeds....

  • Supposed to be a laser not a piece of fucking metal

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