New Navy Railgun

SciFi.com’s Dvice blog had news about a new railgun the navy has. I find myself discourage that we continue to find more ways to kill each other and yet I must admit that the guy in me also has the reaction of “13,000 miles per hour, 10 megajoules, cool”! Sue me, it’s the testosterone.

Just take a look at the image above! It shows the first demonstration of this crazy magnetic railgun, which fired a shell at 5,600 miles per hour using 10 megajoules of energy. And that’s just the beginning. When this thing is done, it’ll be firing shots at over 13,000 miles per hour. Oh, and it’ll be accurate enough to hit a 5 meter target from 200 nautical miles away while shooting at 10 shots per minute. Even though it won’t be ready until 2020 to 2025, I’m going to start getting on the Navy’s good side now.