What exactly is a railgun, and do we need to start building bunkers again?

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It sounds like science fiction — a naval gun capable of firing a projectile at 2.5 kilometres per second — but does the technology stack up to the military bravado?

 

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Dr 'who ever' is very out of touch it's not hard to generate that level of power at sea, melting steel rails give me a break if real its only a engineering issue, power in = power out, super high velocity & range for lower per shot cost than other systems. Dr no practical ability

Headline stupid, story old news, real threat nil. If the US can't master the rail gun technology, China has little hope. The amount of instantaneous energy required is huge &, even if capable, it takes time to accumulate energy for any subsequent firing, if the rails haven't melt

Is that even a railgun in that picture of the Chinese ship? Let's confirm that before whipping up an ABC frenzy.

Lmfao. Oh my God

War ships, war planes, missiles, tanks armies; there's a billion more intelligent ways to defeat a nation. War ships, war planes, missiles, tanks and armies is wishful thinking.

It's an old technology that America will actually use, now that somebody else is going to, but until now, money has been made using primitive weapon systems. Build bunkers? Maybe just take our destiny out of the hands of idiots. Even railguns are primitive.

Old news and old rail gun footage. Catch up abc

Why is China behaving like Hitler ?.

i don't know .. and Yes! G'day

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