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This is sooo going to be weaponized.
by chrischen 13y ago
This is sooo going to be weaponized.
- cabalamat 13y agoThe fact that this has obvious military applications suggests to me that if it was practical, militaries would have already done it.
- rbanffy 13y agoIndeed. It looks like an obvious ship killer. What can you do to a one ton steel brick travelling in your direction at Mach 10?
- jtheory 13y agoIt's hard to imagine scaling this up to be able to throw a ton at a time. If you want to throw something that heavy, you'll have a much easier time using explosives to do it -- and we've been able to do that for quite a long time now (multi-ton shells were fired in WWI).
- Tloewald 13y agoGiven the spin-up time and the fact it's a giant gyro (and thus can't be aimed) the ability of a 15" gun to fire payloads at enemy ships seems far more useful.
- chrischen 13y agoYea but you can shoot things into space. So now you can shoot things into space so that it lands on the other side of the planet.
- swalsh 13y agoThere's no proof they haven't.
- rjd 13y agoOr are just about to start testing it ;)
- Moto7451 13y agoThe Navy is working on a railgun[1]. Probably a bit more pragmatic than something this large. [1] http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/navy-gets-another-hypersonic-railgun-fires-test-shots/3317 http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/navy-gets-another-h...