[ QUOTE ] So THAT'S what a real railgun sounds like - pretty much like a regular cannon but with a slight whine behind it... [/ QUOTE ] With a conventional gun/cannon, most the noise you hear is from the projectile breaking the sound barrier, so a railgun that fires a supersonic projectile should sound pretty similar.
-Targeting is pretty easy, actually. We have systems in place to target ballistic cannons already (see, tanks and ship cannons) it's the exact same system with the numbers for the railgun's speed/range put in. It's not actually that hard, when you think about it -- submariners used to do the math by hand to target…
[ QUOTE ] holy crap that is much more impressive then the yahoo link of "look what these rednecks are doing BOOM! slow-MO!". [/ QUOTE ] Are they rednecks because they're not test firing giant cannons in populated urban areas and are instead surrounded by trees? How else do you demonstrate what the gun does in video other…
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] holy crap that is much more impressive then the yahoo link of "look what these rednecks are doing BOOM! slow-MO!". [/ QUOTE ] Are they rednecks because they're not test firing giant cannons in populated urban areas and are instead surrounded by trees? [/ QUOTE ]You might be a redneck when your work and…