The Motley Fool's Rich Smith writes:
For more than three years now, I've been tracking the U.S. Navy's progress toward building a working electromagnetic railgun prototype — a Mach 6 cannon reputedly capable of striking targets 110 miles away with pinpoint accuracy.
Each railgun projectile would cost about $25,000 to produce — and if you're keeping track, then yes, success on the railgun project would yield a weapon boasting nearly twice the 67-mile range of Boeing's (NYSE:BA) Harpoon II missile but costing just 1/48th the Boeing missile's $1.2 million cost.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/22/navys-new-mach-6-em-railgun-almost-ready-for-prime.aspx
Electromagnetic Railgun - First shot at Dahlgren's new Terminal Range https://youtu.be/Pi-BDIu_umo
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @06:54AM (1 child)
but why do we have to denigrate someone who posted in good faith but may not have understood?
You must be new around here, ain't ya? We have to denigrate because it is Runaway1956-2666, he posts on everything, especially things he knows nothing about, constantly. It is not in good faith, it is a bad case of logorhea. And he claims to have been a sailor, but inquiries with the DOD report that no one named "Runaway1956" ever served in the US Military, ever.
Oh, wait, you were talking about someone else? Oh, well, carry on then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @08:39AM
I'm pretty sure his real name is not "Runaway1956" or even just "Runaway". My real name isn't "Anonymous Coward" either (and nor is yours, I guess).
And I'm pretty sure the military would require you to use your real name.