Re: Railgun Research: Barrrel Design or Power Supply

mmeron_at_cars3.uchicago.edu
Date: 02/28/05 

To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:38:16 GMT

In article <cvu42c02nrd@enews3.newsguy.com>, nospam <nospam@nospam.net> writes:
>Andrew Swallow wrote:
>> mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> Where laser weapons are seeing serious development, like TRW's
>>>> tactical missile defense thingy, it's a chemically powered system,
>>>> hydrogen and fluorine or whatever they're using these days, not
>>>> electrically powered. But then also TRW's thing is speed and
>>>> precision to shoot down an incoming missile, not increased firepower.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed. And that's what I refer to as "niche application".
>>
>>
>> "speed and precision to shoot down an incoming..."
>> Hmm. How about shooting down incoming shells and bullets?
>
>An acquaintance of mine was working in Naval ordinance on
>the problem of shooting down supersonic cruise missiles with
>anti-missile missiles. Curiously, one of the problems was a
>shortage of targets of the right size and speed to practice
>on, so they set up a 5" naval gun to provide targets, and
>practiced shooting down incoming 5" shells. It wasn't
>perfect, but it was a lot cheaper than acquiring a lot of
>high-speed missiles to shoot down.
>
Most certainly true.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same"

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