From: JAY DUGGER (duggerj1@charter.net)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 10:06:54 MDT
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Railguns can certainly shoot projectiles beyond the
>horizon, more than
>two times further, in fact, than current chemical gun
>technologies.
>
Umm, this might not hold true. When I left the US
Navy four years ago, descriptions of rocket-assisted
rounds for 5" inch guns had just started to appear in the
professional literature. The material suggested ranges of
about sixty nautical miles (~68 miles or ~110 km) for
surface targets. Bear in mind, I didn't see these fire.
Military contractors deserve their reputation for
exaggerating their products' abilities.
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