First electromagnetic railgun makes its public debut
Once an imaginary weapon on Star Wars, the electromagnetic gun is now reality...with the railgun making its public debut at the the U.S. Navy's Science and Technology Expo on Wednesday.
It’s as if the U.S. military took something from sci-fi lore and turned it into reality.
The first electromagnetic railgun made its public debut at the U.S. Navy’s Science and Technology Expo, Wednesday.
Able to fire a projectile at Mach 7, the railgun uses electromagnetism to manifest energy between two conductive rails and accelerate an object.
The railgun is stronger, faster, and has a much larger range than a normal gun using gunpowder.
The railgun is expected to be equipped on American battleships within the decade, says Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral Mathias Winters.
