If only you had been in charge of the project.

Mar 22, 2017
8:26:21pm

El Jefe Get off my lawn!

They've been working on it since shortly after WWII. The theory was fine, making the power requirements reasonable took a while to do.

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Wow. This is cool. The US Military has a railgun that can fire a projectile at

Pimpin4Paradise

3/22/17 8:12pm

Railgun technology has been in the works for awhile

TNT

3/22/17 8:15pm

I wonder why this technology was not developed in the 1950s. I'm sure the idea

spoxjox

3/22/17 8:15pm

It's possible that the implementation was a little bit harder than the theory

El Jefe

3/22/17 8:21pm

Maybe. But this isn't nuclear fusion, it's a railgun.

spoxjox

3/22/17 8:23pm

If only you had been in charge of the project.

El Jefe

3/22/17 8:26pm

How is that possible? They had freaking NUCLEAR REACTORS aboard ships in the 50s

spoxjox

3/22/17 8:36pm

Here's why:

El Jefe

3/22/17 8:48pm

Woah. Even TNT doesn't disrespect engineers like that

TNT

3/22/17 9:01pm

Well non-CB engineers

TNT

3/22/17 9:08pm

Such a great weapon in Fallout. Would shoot.

Funke

3/22/17 9:23pm

Not saying it's not cool, but firing projectiles seems pretty old school.

byujdmba

3/22/17 11:47pm

Have you seen what it does?

TNT

3/23/17 12:54am

Firing projectiles without a chemical reaction is not old school.

Pimpin4Paradise

3/23/17 8:20am

This gun will still have more velocity out at the horizon than any conventional

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