{"id":393,"date":"2008-02-22T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2008-02-22T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T18:02:34","slug":"how-to-hurl-things-at-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"How to hurl things at people"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I met someone who recently got to watch the Navy’s latest railgun<\/a> test firing in person.<\/p>\n


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The projectile was traveling at 5,600 miles per hour<\/b> (Mach 7). By contrast, a round fired by an average hunting rifle only travels at about 2,000 miles per hour. The railgun projectile was traveling at Mach 5 when it hit the target. The railgun has a accuracy range of about 220 miles – conventional naval weapons have only gotten us to around a tenth of that number.<\/p>\n

The YouTube videos of the test firing are insane:<\/p>\n


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In other hitting-stuff-with-really-fast-stuff news, here’s the military video of the Navy missile blowing up the wayward spy satellite<\/a>:<\/p>\n


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