Errymath: Zumwalt

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      The rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles<br />
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<span id="ext-gen176" style="font-size: 1.2em;">A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen174" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Described
 as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell
 weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles. It does this with such 
force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch 
thick steel plates.</span></div>
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 of a futuristic weapon  is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants 
to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit 
aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Electromagnetic
 launchers were one of the areas researched by Ronald Reagan's Strategic
 Defence Initiative, nicknamed 'Star Wars' after the science fiction 
film franchise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rail
 guns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at
 six or seven times the speed of sound — creating enough kinetic energy 
to destroy targets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It's
 technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon 
at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Admiral
 Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated the 
idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel 
this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson - 
though no final decision has been made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for the 
electromagnetic railgun,' said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy 
spokeswoman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Using
 an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates
 a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before 
launching it at ferocious speed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Railguns were first conceived of nearly a century ago and patented by French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nazi Germany took up the research during the Second World War to adapt its anti-aircraft guns.</span></div>
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 has been talk since the inception of the Zumwalt program that the 
massive destroyers would be a likely candidate for the weapon because of
 its power plant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The USS Johnson will be the third and final destroyer in the Zumwalt class.</span></div>
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going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype 
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Zumwalt-class destroyers. Pictured is one of two electromagnetic railgun
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Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, head of US
 Naval Research, said the futuristic electromagnetic railgun – so called
 because it fires from two parallel rails – had already undergone 
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The weapon uses speed rather than explosives to destroy its target</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 600-foot-long warship uses marine turbines similar to those that propel
 the Boeing 777 to help produce up to 78 megawatts of electricity for 
use in propulsion, weapons and sensors. That's more than enough power 
for the railgun.</span></div>
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 it's placed on the warship, the system could replace one of the forward
 turrets housing a 155mm gun that fires rocket-propelled projectiles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">For now, however, the official plan remains for the railgun prototype to be tested aboard a joint high speed vessel this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But there are concerns that the plan may be pushed back into 2017, and Fanta suggested skipping it altogether.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 railgun, along with laser weaponry, are two futuristic technologies 
that Fanta said have evolved from being a matter of scientific research 
to one of practical engineering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Navy is interested in those weapons — along with smart munitions that 
can improve existing naval guns — because of their low cost as well as 
lethality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 Navy is determined to increase the offensive punch of the surface 
warships,' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington 
Institute. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'To do that with a limited budget, it needs to look at everything from smart munitions to railguns to lasers.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The railgun discussion isn't widely known inside the shipyard, where the Zumwalt-calls destroyers are being built. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, had no comment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Shipbuilder
 Charles Davis said there was talk of a railgun when the yard began work
 on the first ship in the class, but he said there's been no discussion 
since then.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They've been pretty tight-lipped about it,' he said. </span></div>
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Railguns use electricity instead of 
gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of 
sound — creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets. It's 
technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon 
at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles</div>
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Described as 'Star 
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