Railgun cannons are now ready to be equiped on the next generation of US Navy ships, capable of bombarding targets with pinpoint accuracy from 500 miles away, can shoot down incoming missiles, and pretty much makes every currently existing military technology obsolete.
Another benefit of railguns is you lack the need for a warhead and propellent in the artillery shell. Anything hitting you at Mach 4 is going to turn you into dust wether or not it explodes and the entire thing is propelled by electrical currents generating extreme magnetic forces. This is the same technology used to propel Magnetic Levitation Trains to near the speed of sound and to propel modern rollercoasters for thrill seekers, now it's being used how should be... to kill people without the victims knowing WTF just happened.
Smaller designs are underway to be fittted on artillery pieces, later on tanks and in a few decades even aircraft.
In retaliation to this moment of American badassery France has already surrendered, Russia and China are trying to steal the designs and the Japanese government is plans on purchasing 30 of these to mount on their latest models of giant fighting robots.
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Railgun cannons are now ready to be equiped on the next generation of US Navy ships, capable of bombarding targets with pinpoint accuracy from 500 miles away, can shoot down incoming missiles, and pretty much makes every currently existing military technology obsolete.
Another benefit of railguns is you lack the need for a warhead and propellent in the artillery shell. Anything hitting you at Mach 4 is going to turn you into dust wether or not it explodes and the entire thing is propelled by electrical currents generating extreme magnetic forces. This is the same technology used to propel Magnetic Levitation Trains to near the speed of sound and to propel modern rollercoasters for thrill seekers, now it's being used how should be... to kill people without the victims knowing WTF just happened.
Smaller designs are underway to be fittted on artillery pieces, later on tanks and in a few decades even aircraft.
In retaliation to this moment of American badassery France has already surrendered, Russia and China are trying to steal the designs and the Japanese government is plans on purchasing 30 of these to mount on their latest models of giant fighting robots.