Railgun

[Zeonix]

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/012007/01172007/251373

Nice.

 

[-Origin]

Awesome. Where can I get one?

 

[frsrblch]

Sweet Jesus.

 

[Jakut]

The Strogg will attack us soon!!

 

[jp]

The Strogg will attack us soon!!

Hell with this weaponry the strogg will wheep and cry in a corner.

 

[-Origin]

I hate being Mr. Morale but it's still weird to see newer and better weapons being developed, while the ones we have right now could already blow up Earth.. several times. Oh, and screw up our entire atmosphere and what not.

But who am I?

 

[john_volkov]

Railgun what next Prisma Tank

 

[LionHeart]

in 1000 years the worls will be exactly as quake 3 ^^

 

[-Origin]

Boring and overrated?

 

[Zeonix]

We need to build just one really, really, crazy-looking, super powerful ultimate weapon that won't blow up the world. Sure, a weapon of that magnitude in the hands of the wrong person could be disastrous, but if a leader who wasn't an absolute prick had it, he could basically end all wars. Who would want to fight a war when one of the sides has a weapon that could kill everyone without doing any damage to the Earth?

 

[elNarr]

This is Amazing, i knew they would make it in in this point sometime in 2008-2010 already
what will they invent next?
Ion cannon? if not already?

this is getting pretty scary, too much massive weapons with this new cutting edge technology and besides the new world war could blow anyday now, world won't live in peace forever -.-

i guess they'll start to get developing in tanks too in near future, something like a Prism Tank From Red Alert 2..
... and as soon as the terrorists get this thing, they'll enchant it with somekind of plutonium-polonium-gamma ray combination, just my opinion.

Warheads aren't needed because of the massive force of impact.
The projectile fired yesterday weighed only 3.2 kilograms and had no warhead. Future railgun ordnance won't be large and heavy, either, but will deliver the punch of a Tomahawk cruise missile because of the immense speed of the projectile at impact.

meh...

 

[-Origin]

Everyone would kill each other for control of that weapon.

EDIT: That was at Zeonix.

 

[Jakut]

I wonder when will they invent the rocket-crowbar XD

 

[elNarr]

Everyone would kill each other for control of that weapon.

EDIT: That was at Zeonix.

yeah, i wonder what will happen in june, that's when the deliverance to Dahlgren is, so i bet a group of terrorists will raid it somehow.

 

[Grega]

The next thing they will make is Metal Gear REX with its railgun right arm nuclear missile launch system.

Heck the way a rail gun works was explained in MGS >.> And they say "A year ago, this was [just] a good idea"


What a load of crap. That idea was round for a long while ^^

Anyhow its interesting. Not to mention stealthy.

 

[Zeonix]

Everyone would kill each other for control of that weapon.

EDIT: That was at Zeonix.

Nations wouldn't risk being wiped out. If they were, the Cold War would have gotten pretty hot.

The Railgun isn't designed to blow everything up. It's a precision weapon and it makes it so that you don't have to blow up your target and everything around it in order to kill 1 guy. I'd rather we develop weapons like this and that space weapon we're building that shoots a rod down at insane speeds, causing tremendous damage to whatever it's being aimed at than have people trying to figure out how to make nukes smaller, and thus easier to use.

 

[-Origin]

Thing with the Cold War was that both sides had nuclear weapons.. If only one side had them it wouldn't have as much of a war would it? More like a monopoly on mass destruction weapons I think. If for example, America would be the ONLY country in the world with a weapon like that.. then can preach peace all they want and nobody is going to buy it.

It's a sad world we live in.

 

[clen]

Thing with the Cold War was that both sides had nuclear weapons.. If only one side had them it wouldn't have as much of a war would it? More like a monopoly on mass destruction weapons I think. If for example, America would be the ONLY country in the world with a weapon like that.. then can preach peace all they want and nobody is going to buy it.

It's a sad world we live in.

Well they're already trying to do that....

 

[Sicron]

I'll take 10...do they accept Visa?

 

[Zeonix]

Thing with the Cold War was that both sides had nuclear weapons.. If only one side had them it wouldn't have as much of a war would it? More like a monopoly on mass destruction weapons I think. If for example, America would be the ONLY country in the world with a weapon like that.. then can preach peace all they want and nobody is going to buy it.

It's a sad world we live in.

They'll bank of the possibility of them developing something very similar to the Ultimate Weapon. It wouldn't make sense to attack someone who could wipe out your entire army in an instant. It would be pretty obvious if a nation were to begin mobilizing for war, and we'd have no choice but to warn them. If they choose not to listen, they'll be made an example of what not to do.

I don't remember every country attacking America when we were the only country with atomic weapons.