Sputnik: Future Weapon and More: What Russia's Railgun Can Really Do
A team of Russian scientists has successfully tested the country's first railgun, which relies on electromagnetic forces rather than explosives or propellant.
According to experts at the Institute of High Temperatures’ branch in Shatura, just outside Moscow, the railgun can fire shells at an incredibly fast speed of 3 kilometers per second, which is well enough to cut through any type of armor existing today. During the latest test, a 15 gram plastic cylinder fired by the railgun went through an aluminum plate several centimeters thick.
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WNU Editor: Is the Russian version "better" than the American one .... Russian railgun superior to US analog (Katehon)? I am also willing to bet that the Chinese are trying to develop their own version .... but nothing has been posted yet.
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Railgun is just physic which is the same for everybody. The only difference is technology. We don't know the details of the American one neither the Russian one too. So.........
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