World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to Navy

[Shipkiller]

Get your news here..

http://www.military.com/features/0,1524 ... =navy-a.nl

 

[ovrkll]

" Chaboki calculates that firing the 64-megajoule weapon six times per minute would require 16 MW of power"

That is a LOT of power, must be some huge capacitors to store that kind of energy, even momentarily. Would really hate to be around if one of those caps lets go

 

[2 Zero]

What's the chance of putting my car on that thing for a launch down the race track??

 

[WLH]

I believe I read somewhere that another possible use of these might be to shoot some need repair component up to satellite.