Rail guns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound - creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets. This particulary rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles – with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.Įlectromagnetic launchers were one of the areas researched by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, nicknamed 'Star Wars' after the science fiction film franchise. This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.
Using an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed. Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound.
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