U.S. Navy plans to demonstrate rail gun by 2011
Credit: GENERAL ATOMICS
The U.S. Navy is ratcheting up development work on a shipboard electromagnetic rail gun, which would use a burst of high-power current to launch kinetic-energy projectiles at hypersonic speeds. Although at least 15 years from fielding, the futuristic weapon has the potential to substantially improve...
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