Railgun
conducted at low muzzle energy. The next test sequence calls for safely increasing launch energy,
firing rates and salvo size.
Railgun rep-rate testing will be at 20 megajoules by the end of the summer 2017 and at 32
megajoules by 2018. To put this in perspective; one megajoule is the equivalent of a one-ton
vehicle moving at 160 miles per hour.
The weapon releases a current on the order of 3 to 5 million ampers which is about 1,200 volts
released in a ten millisecond timeframe. That is enough to accelerate a mass of approximately 45
pounds from zero to five thousand miles per hour in one one-hundredth of a second.
Due to its ability to reach speeds of up to 5,600 miles per hour, the hypervelocity projectile is
engineered as a kinetic energy warhead, meaning no explosives are necessary. The hyper velocity
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