Author Topic: Railguns!  (Read 2698 times)

Offline Baradium

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Railguns!
« on: April 14, 2007, 06:36:40 AM »
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Offline Zaffex

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Re: Railguns!
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2007, 01:22:17 AM »
Heh, I saw a snip of this on Futureweapons. Pretty interesting stuff.,
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Offline undatc

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Re: Railguns!
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 05:03:49 AM »
I told bar the night he showed this to me......  A few years ago when they were theorizing about this for the navy, there were talks about retro-fitting mothballed battle ships with these.  Talk about a really scary battle ship....  I don't think the plans went anywhere except into the trash, but a neat idea.
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