This terrifyingly powerful gun can shoot a 40-pound metal slug up to 5,600 miles per hour.
The Navy's electromagnetic railgun prototype can fire metal projectiles like this with 32 times the force of a car traveling at 100 miles per hour. Photo: Facebook/Office of Naval Research SEE ALL 27 PHOTOS
The video: After six years of development and at least $240 million, the U.S. Navy's futuristic electromagnetic railgun is one big step closer to reality. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is now test-firing a working prototype of the weapon that's small enough to fit on a warship. Using electric pulses, not chemical explosives, the cannon can shoot a 40-pound metal slug from New York to Philadelphia at up to 5,600 miles per hour — more than seven times the speed of sound — with 32 times the force of a car traveling at 100 miles per hour. (Watch a video below.) "This is the stuff you saw in movies a couple of years ago — cutting-edge, taking out the Transformers — and now it's reality," says ONR chief Adm. Matthew Klunder.
Read More: http://theweek.com/article/index/225044/railguns-the-navys-ultimate-superweapon
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