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Navy Railgun
Well, some of you may already know this but the US navy has developed an 8 megajoule railgun http://www.dailytech.com/Navy+Announ...rticle5766.htm
I think Userfriendly put it best http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070121 
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01-22-2007, 04:38 PM
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95mile...nice
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yay.. soon the good old battleships are back
 4 barrelled turret's,.. but then with railguns. ( yes,. I really like the looks of those WW1/WW2 battleship's, ^^ )Either way.. want the theory of a railgun to get the speed far beyond mach7? either way,.. quite interesting
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01-22-2007, 06:20 PM
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todays war technology is tomorrows household technology
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01-22-2007, 06:30 PM
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lol.. yay, everyone a railgun.. erm.. ofcourse for selfdefense
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