{"id":11171,"date":"2012-03-01T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11171"},"modified":"2012-03-01T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T08:00:44","slug":"velocitas-eradico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11171","title":{"rendered":"Velocitas Eradico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-uV1SbEuzFU?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-uV1SbEuzFU?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A test shot fires from the Office of Naval Research-funded Electromagnetic Railgun prototype launcher located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A story <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7323\">from a little over a year ago<\/a> reported a 33 MegaJoule test.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2012\/02\/28\/navy-unleashes-its-electromagnetic-railgun-outside-of-the-lab-video\/\">blog post at Scientific American<\/a> puts the design range at 20-32 MJ, so it seems the refinements are now in areas other than the energy (e.g. better efficiency, moving from a research device to a better-engineered on that can be deployed).  That article also refines the expected range of the gun.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Navy says that the railgun project, initiated in 2005, will yield a 20- to 32-megajoule weapon that shoots a distance of 50 to 100 nautical miles (roughly 90 to 185 kilometers).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A test shot fires from the Office of Naval Research-funded Electromagnetic Railgun prototype launcher located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. A story from a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}