U.S. Navy unveils high-speed rail gun
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- The U.S. Navy has unveiled a new secret weapon that its developers call a rail gun. Its projectile can travel at seven times the speed of sound and could potentially change the way America fights wars. David Martin reports.
so this is 1/100 of traditional missiles...
and it's still 25,000 dollars...
sssoooo traditional missiles were 2,500,000 each...
US DEBT EXPLAINED
It's no secret that the defense budget has been the leech. But of course if we stopped spending there altogether our economy would spiral into a terrible depression
***** Not only is your comment extremely racist, it's also extremely wrong economically. By outsourcing labor jobs to other countries, we boost their economy because they are able to increase production and create more jobs. We boost our economy by allocating our human capital to more productive positions and away from menial labor. Its a win for everyone.
I see where your going. But chillax, no one is going to listen to what you say if you're being a racist little butthurt shit. Companies move to china and india because the minimum wages are lower there. It's not the workers' fault, it's the greedy ass business owners that want to maximize profits by paying their workers less.
***** It's not necessarily a bad thing either. Everyone is inherently "greedy" (when was the last time you chose a more expensive product so that you could give some extra charity to the company?). In fact greed (or self-interest) is what makes capitalism work. And even if they conditions and pay is worse, it's actually more beneficial than if they were running strictly off of their own economy. More people are employed and they have exposure to more advanced technology which allows them to develop more onto a developed nation's level.
I thought he'd say that pointed missile in his hands was......~$100!
"This costs right here...about 25,000 dollars"
Me: That's not fucking cheap.
1 Tomahawk cruise missile costs 1.4 Million. As far as the military goes, dirt cheap.
patio87
I wasn't comparing it to other military weapons; I was comparing it to everything else in general.
that rail gun is cheaper than a 2012 mustang, for that amount of destruction that is cheap as fuck are you kidding
haloguru101
No I am not. I know the thing is cost effective compared to the Tomahawk. I'm saying that for a person with a regular paycheck (I don't know how much a "regular" paycheck is, I've lived outside the US for 3 years now) 25,000 is a shit ton of money.
this is protype in future this technology will be more cheaper
Good to see Ted Danson taking on a different role
Way to Go Navy R&D!!!... The Navy R&D also developed the first guided air to air IR missile back in the 1950's called the Sidewinder... Once they get this new weapon to sea, they should invite ex-Battleship Navy veterans for a live fire demo... :)
Gigantic cannon, little effect
This project is almost ready for use,it has been in development for decades.The first quake game had the rail-gun as it was just thought of to be the next big gun.
"Developers call it a railgun"....no...developer was a french dude 100 years ago :p
americans always want to take the credit, fuckers.
+baff shogun Yeah but you cant be mad at them. Like a puppy peing on your carpet.
+LaserGadgets well i sometimes see things that makes me hate america, but yeah, you guys are....okay....
+baff shogun Did he just call me american? :< Im not american, I am German.
+baff shogun The gun isn't even American, it was designed and made by BAE systems a British Arms Manufacturer.
"The US Navy has invented a railgun"
Logo says BAe Systems...
+MaroonBugUK It doesn't matter what it says on the launcher. The railgun was invented by a French guy named Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee in the early 20th century, who later petitioned for an American patent of his invention. The Germans developed it further during WW2, and now the Americans rewrite history again and steal credit.
+*ANDY* Look at original poster- he said that.
+*ANDY* smartest one here
Okay, scared, awed, geeking out, and sad that my favorite scifi weapon is a reality.
My physics book says there is a fuse between the rails. A current between the rails vaporaizes the fuse element which causes an electromagnetic force directed outward between the rails. So basically things things are electric canons.
"I hope we never have to use it". Slim chance there.
Projectile may be cheaper but what about the rest of equipment necessary to fire?
the secret is in the materials of the projectile. At those speeds any metal should melt from friction against the air. What they are using doesnt melt, has a in board micro circuit guidance system, and punches through any known defences we can cone up with. A tomohawk missl. cost 1million a piece and doesnt have the range nor punching power as the rail gun.
Not only the project is high tech, but the gun self produces tremendous heat. Back in 2004 that was their major hurdle in putting it on a ship. Cooling the gun down for second shot with sea water wasnt enough.
Even then, it's sea water. Corrosive to say the least, interacting with ridiculously powerful electrical currents. How did they figure it out though?
maybe the projectile made out of tungsten
google that mate!!
that's why the real projectile is in a conductive case, the massive heat is when it first exits, then the projectile is released from the case
Also, please, tell me about this guidance system whose sensors can take the initial G-Load, and whose control surfaces can accurately adjust the trajectory of an "aerodynamic" metal fist topping a good chunk of orbital velocity without just being ripped clean off by the drag.
Can someone answer me what causes the explosion/flames when the projectile flies out of the rail gun?
Rail Gun along with CIWS system , is some serious fire power... Anchors Aweigh My Boy
the US Military has had this since the 1980s... we just now declassified it..
I wonder what amount of electric energy would that system require to be operated... Could that amount of electricity be generated on board a navy ship?
All we need now to invent now is a banshee
No a scorpion
+TheSaintscool117 a ghost
+mr_ares
We got Shimmies and CocoPuffs
This sounds to be more powerful than Mikoto Misaka.
where do i know that sound from
Wow this is pantastic!
I heard these shells can go a hundred miles !
It's the shit like this thatakes me wish I was still in. Fucking awesome.
OK, the Dednaught, Battleship, is now back in action, or it could also be on an aircraft carrier. Hmmm. A battleship with 9 of these on board with nuclear power? Oh damn!
Cool!
So one missle could put 5 kids through college. Got it.
Each round fired is someone's yearly income....lol
10 megawatts is not a little number that the battleships we have today only have around 10-30 mw(s)
I read about this 3 years ago.
I got goosebumps
And why are you showing this to the enemy?
To scare it?
LEVEL 6 ELECTROMASTER DETECTED!!
If its on CBS news its not "Secret" now is it?
So WHY again are we telling everyone about this?
The weapon you never need to use is the most powerful one of all.
Annie Gaddis its been in science fiction for the longest time and the concept has been around for a very long time im sure every super power is working on it
OK, so National Security problem here. Great! Thanks!
+Annie Gaddis It's not like they are posting how t make the damn thing. PLus that thing eats electricity like no tommorrow. So unless other countries want to spend a ton on nuclear reactors, it's prob. not happening. Though I wouldn't be suprised if the US military has something even better in the works.
YEAAAH BITCH! MAGNETS!
This is relatively "old" technology. They have other much, much more scary stuff. Heck, they can't even shoot down UFOs with that Mach 7 bullcrap.
So what was the rest of the world saying about nuking us?
for another country to nuke one with 4000 nukes would be suicide and its same both ways, so in a way the nukes themselves are keeping the peace for now.
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M.A.D. - Mutually Assured Destruction
*****
It's called MAD.
***** Depends, what am I defending from and who is launching the nukes? NK doesn't have the range to hit anything past California, forget the Middle East and Russia isn't going to get any nukes past our already-established defense. Add these weapons to our garrison, and we're one step closer to being invulnerable to nukes. What is Russia even doing? Shooting down airliners?
Baka Fawkes i highly doubt the russians are just sitting on there ass's its fucking russia theres a reason NATO was put together
that's a big spike. and 25k. fuck that.
not enough watts on battleship. huh
So they say American developers but use bae systems footage which is a UK based company
+Bob Ski Bob same with ciws goalkeeper such great american power, invented by the dutch XD
+Allura Ambrose Too bad we(the dutch) dont even have our own weapon manufacturer
+Bob Ski Bob BAE America is a separate company from BAE, nothing is shared between the American and UK companies though they do have some ties.
+Bob Ski Bob You mean the electrically powered projectile launcher at 0:13?
+Justin Smedley BAE America is a wholly owned subsidiary of the British BAE systems plc
how many gigawatts ?your gonna need one hell of a delorean flux capacitor .this thing needs massive ^ dc amps ! thats a lot of 000000000s
needs a flash hider lol
Potential my ass that gun is in production.....Russia Who?
that gun sounds like future
uetzel it was invented around a century ago. we just didn't have nuclear powered aircraft carriers at the time. it takes a lot of electricity.
its cool, dont get me wrong... i want one in .223.
So does it use real magnetic induction?
+OblivionGaming No, it uses condensed fart.
lol
so 6 low carbon steel plates? AR500 plates???? hmmm.... which is it
High-speed rail gun, AKA Rocco Sifredi's gun.
So, anyone else also realize that you can build one of these big enough to shoot objects into orbit or intercontinentally? Imagine one of these the size of a 10 story office building (land based of course). We could shoot warheads into orbit or hit anywhere on the planet with a round that for all intensive purposes would be perceived as a meteor or asteroid impact.
Think about it.
thats part of the principles...it uses magnetic force to launch a solid slug at such extreme force that the impact from velocity alone is what does the damage...you basically just shoot a shaped hunk of various metals designed for durability...its the force and velocity that makes it punch such big holes in even reinforced armored walls...now imagine even lesser materials like stone or other things...
also its speculated if built right, these things could fire farther and faster than convention sea-to-land missiles, and those missiles are already designed to be fired offshore and go inland to extreme distances...
when the US goes to war, some of our naval ships literally sit offshore shelling the landmass from many miles away...i dont know the approximate number but its a very vast distance
now a railgun doesnt use any sort of propellent...the magnetic pulse that fires the slug is what makes it go
but of course that means the magnetic force has to be immense in order to eject the slug at that high of force/velocity...but it retains its speed and heading over extreme distance just because of how forceful the shot is
MrRavenXavier with good enough tracking to correct its self after reentry and all the crosswinds from different layers in the atmoshpere yeah it would. But i think depending on its terminal velocity it might be better launching from space, zero gravity means you can build as big as you want, like in gi joe basically
+MrRavenXavier Making it bigger is a huge problem, because even now these things are nearly melting. You simply cannot make it bigger because you cannot put more force into it with the current technology.
Maddinhpws According to the US Air force they say they can build one that big. AFAIK the only reason they haven't is because of funding, not tech. The only heat involved happens to the projectile, not from machine that fires it.
+MrRavenXavier wRONg Paul your hero? Tin foil on sale............."THEY" are watching you
O my god...
Prophesied in Transformers franchise now a reality.Armageddon,here we come!
its electric witch means at some point it will run out of power, and many things can go wrong with EM weapons, gunpowder is only limited by the number of warheads you have.
modern ships run on nuclear power so no, it won't run out of power. They also have plenty of EM shielding
Uhh it's not hooked up to a bunch of D batteries it's powered by generators or even a nuclear core such as on a aircraft carrier or submarine so the power could be infinite. The rounds are smaller, more effective and cost less so it would easily have many more "warheads". many things can go wrong with EM weapons?? do you work on them?? are you from the future? the system is pretty fucking simple when compared to missiles and is much safer than conventional large guns. things that can go wrong are pretty much null you essentially need pure power and a projectile and you are good to go.
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Is this guy for real?
Electromagnetic weapons DO take up a lot of power but what makes you think it will run out of batteries that easily? Hell, if they were sticking this onto a US Navy Destroyer then its energy problem is solved!
Also, "Gunpowder" and traditional guns run the risk of jamming while Railguns use Magnets to shove metal up your ass. There isn't really much room for "jamming" when all you really have is a magazine and magnets.
Carriers can go like 20 years without refueling with their nuclear reactors. They have enough energy.
they should get that in zumwalt
+Ahmad Jamalulail Kamaruzzaman epcted there about 20-20
If the earth supposedly curves at 8 inches per mile squared... then how does the rail gun not crash into the ground? That's a 2.5 foot drop every two miles. Nearly a 20 foot drop in 5 miles. How does a projectile compensate for earth curvature? Earth must be flat.
Operation Stonehenge is a go
Wow, a whole 76.2mm of penetration. Thats....pretty shit. The M3 75mm WW2 sherman cannon could get 110mm of penetration with a round of about the same size, that much armor is nothing today.
how can that piece of metal be 25000 dollar
Do you know how hard it is to develop tooling to make perfectly sized conical projectiles out of super dense metals such as depleted uranium or tungsten? Then take account whoever is making them are making them for one customer exclusively
Peter Carlson And add a guidance system to said projectile.
***** does that seem to you like it can have a guidance system? its a bullet, a projectile.... not a missile. its is fired from a gun and travels several times the speed of sound.... find a way to guide this bullet mid-flight and i will give u the Nobel Prize myself
StickyIckyOOHWAY actually major leaps and bounds have been made in self precision guided artillery. The m982 Excalibur for example.
StickyIckyOOHWAY Listen to the guy at 1:13..it has a guidance system.
LOL. I love the face of adm. Matthew Klunder...he's so focused on displaying self confidence, looks like he's having a serious erection while talking about his new death toy. "America's got the balls, you've been warned!". :-D If only they had the brains too, to realize how ridiculous it is to have a $500+ BILLION YEARLY defense budget...
All you people whining about $25,000 being "dirt cheap"...
When you've got $700bn to be spend on military each year... $25k IS dirt cheap
Your statement would make sense if you are bashing the people that don't think it is dirt cheap. It aint pretty how we got that money.
So from america to siberia would be like ?
How about through the planet from Florida to Siberia? how about through the planet altogether?
Nigga Joe You can ask Bill Nye. Actually. StarTalk Radio with Neil DeGrasse-Tyson has Nye come on the show every now and then to answer physics + space questions, or Tyson just does it.
Nigga Joe That would be quite the oddball question.
Cool
I've got to say it, did any else notice how the casing made a swastika after the round was fired at 0:20?
I really did nazi that coming. Not on this video.
Once again made by Britain & US instantly claim all credit
Nigga the concept was completed by the US just because it's fired in Britain dosent mean it is British
Smaller, cheaper, AND more destructive! The ultimate conclusion of this trend is a pocket-sized world-destroying device for the price of a soft drink.
Firing sequence initiation button on a Kinetic Orbital Strike system? (NOT the BULLSHIT GI JOE/ CoD Ghosts one, an ACTUAL, CORRECT VERSION) Although, slightly more expensive than a soft drink.
Or maybe a cheap shitty walkie-talkie. Could send out the radio wave that draws technologically advanced malicious aliens to eradicate us...
it's a projectile. how is the guidance sensor inside it suppose to help when it's helpless as soon as it leaves the nozzle? and at long ranges, you have to take into account the ocean, wind velocity, and probably a multitude of other factors that could affect the path of that projectile, so it won't be nearly as accurate as a missile.
It will be more accurate than a missile. It is faster which means less time for wind to act on it, and way way more aerodynamic once it sheds its sabot, and external sensors from a ship or a plane can relay information to the projectile while it is in flight so it can alter its trajectory. That's already how a missile works, but this will be traveling at mach 7 instead. Oh and because of the pinpoint accuracy and no explosive warhead, there is less chance of collateral damage. There is also no countermeasures for the projectile, and it won't show up on radar. It features more destructive power at a fraction of the cost of a missile. Even if you miss, which you won't, you can just lob another 50 down range. Once this technology is downsized combat will change forever. Kinetic penetrators are the future, and missiles are going bye bye.
I'm sure these heavily experienced weapons manufacturers know what they are doing.
Uhh projectiles can be guided with the use of fins or even built in thrusters they are in use today. Search Cannon-launched guided projectile. not that this thing will even need it for how fast it is. just get some good targeting computers.
The projectile goes so fast that you hardly need to take those factors into account.
This things traveling at 5600 mph, it gives ZERO fucks about the ocean, wind velocity, and whatever you can think of :^)
New ways of murder!yippee!
You're probably the type of person that bitches when their taxes increase
Smithy0013 Yes since i pay taxes since im 14 years old.
soundioulou cissoko Oh you're 14. That explains it.
Smithy0013 And how does that explain it exactly?
soundioulou cissoko 14 year olds generally don't have a good understanding of research in weapons development, the government, or how anything works in general. There are exceptions to the rule of course but you don't appear to be among them. However, age is a perfectly valid excuse for it so that is why I'm not upset.
If the rail gun is "dirt cheap" to manufacture, wouldn't other countries that have rag tag terrorists organizations be able to find part and build one that rivals this weapon as well? Someone needs to talk to George Lucas about this. Sure he could tweak it a bit.
ooooh my what has the world come to...
(Was about to diss off bronies but decided against it)
Meh, just an average day in the American military.
TheSonicfanx1 well done my friend
sweetie....this is nothing for you
Wednesday, 2/25/15. So are we using it now on ISIS? America has the finest weaponry in the world with no will to use it.
'murica
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day yeah!
Alex Thompson Democracy's the only way yeah!
Hayden Bingham 'Cuz now you have to ANSWER TO...
Hayden Bingham AMERICA, FUCK YEAH
Hayden Bingham You aren't American, you like soccer lol.
Stealth Nukes!
"He seemed proud of it." She said condescendingly. "Hopefully we'll never have to use it." She said ignorantly. "The greatest achievements of man have been made by people in a laboratory, learning how the world actually works. They weren't made by people sitting around a table, talking about how they think the world should work." Said some dude I saw in a documentary once.
My right to own my own naval rail gun is clearly protected by the second amendment. Trump for president 2016.
Pray that we never have to use it? Unfortunately, there will be a time when we WILL have to use it! It's just a matter of when! Please pull your head out of the sand already! We have always had enemies, we will always have enemies! That is just a fact of life! What you said, Ms. Lady or whoever that black lady is, is just stupid!
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Once nanotechnology gets involved, expect to see Advanced Laser weaponry and far more powerful Rail Guns that can fire at significant percentages of the speed of light, travel thousands of miles, and hit targets in space.
With Nanotechnology, we can create Extremely powerful and efficient batteries. Combine that with the exotic materials from nanotech we can make nearly indestructible shells to withstand the extreme forces required to fire it at significant percentages of the speed of light.
The future is full of terribly powerful and wondrous weapons of war limited only by the twisted imagination of humanity.
Few things:
The batteries- Done= Look up Graphene
The space-railgun- Impossible= Little thing called the atmosphere. No known feasible element could survive the shock heating at speeds sufficient to reach space.
Shells @ part of Light speed- Oh Hell No= Not sure you realize just how fast light is. Also, to accelerate to a certain percentage, that number is the percentage of energy required to reach that speed. Percentage of energy of all energy in the universe, that is. Including the energy contained within atoms, whose conversion of < 700milligrams from matter to energy leveled Hiroshima. Just kinda a big NOPE.
+Hayden Bingham It is only hard to reach a part of the speed of light with chemical engines.
As for the other things, you can make armor strong enough to withstand a tank shell without any problem with graphene.
Maddinhpws No, it's generally hard to reach part of the speed of light at all. Unless you're being annoying and technical and you mean like 0.5%c
Make lethal injection a thing of the past .
Like, if you watched this , after watching transformers 2
Better step up the game and get the cost and speed of development down....aka government and contractors need to get their *hit together. China has a railgun mounted on a ship and doing sea trials....
Anyone else think gta v
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Flat earth
Heh, Admiral. Good thing they now let gays into the military.
If the rail gun is "dirt cheap" to manufacture, wouldn't other countries that have rag tag terrorists organizations be able to find part and build one that rivals this weapon as well? Someone needs to talk to George Lucas about this. Sure he could tweak it a bit.
Not really.. the main problem with a railgun is getting it to work , not getting the money to build it.
Dirt cheap, but also complex and impossible to make without the proper manufacturers and stuff.
It also needs a massive power supply and most rag tag countries don't have portable nuclear reactors. Eventually they'll be scaled down for use on land, but they're still going to need a massive power supply.
Nuclear warheads are relatively cheap to manufacture with today's technology but that doesn't me that other counties can just stat building them left and right. Ragtag countries don't have the industrial power or the know how to build a rail gun period.
Nolan Atkinson
If it's taken two of the most technologically advanced countries on earth(USA and Britain) decades and billions of dollars to develop then how in the world are mysterious 'donors' going to be able to build railguns? Besides, in 2014 countries like Iran are trying to build nuclear weapons which was a tech that, once again Britain and the US, discovered how to build in 1945. If that's the time frame for other people to get railguns... I think it'll be fine.