• Captain Kirk takes the USS Enterprise out of Drydock
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[QUOTE=snookypookums;42722628]Holy shit, are they firing M107's? Those things have like 5 (or six, I forget exactly) kg of TNT in them. This gun can put down the explosive damage of 60 kgs of TNT per minute. That's like....enough to level 2 or three residential buildings in a minute. From a 150 km away. Bloody hell that's terrifying.[/QUOTE] The Railgun that General Atomics is building can throw a shell less than half the size at a surface target at mach 7.5. Indirect fire, it can land a shell on target at 200nm away, hitting at mach 5 and making the whole journey in 6 minutes. They said that with adequate funding, they can have a field test prototype by 2016.
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