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- From: jumper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham)
- Subject: electro-magnetic gun makes another step foward
- Message-ID: <BxtK7K.1Kq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:21:20 GMT
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- From jumper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham)
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- [paraphrased from ARMY, Nov 92,"High-Powered Electromagnetic Gun Sets Energy
- Velociy Records", p55]
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- U of Texas Center for Electromagnetics used a electromagnetic gun to fire a
- 5.25 lb package to 8963ft/s(2732m/s). In comparison the standard Army tank
- round has a muzzle velocity of 5276ft/s(1600m/s). Muzzle energy of the
- electric gun reached 8.8 MJ while a standard tank round produces about 11 MJ.
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- He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool;
- and he who dares not is a slave. --- Sir William Drummond
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- Michael Lanham mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu & jumper@catt.ncsu.edu
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