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Navy/USMC

Navy To Evaluate Second Electromagnetic Railgun

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

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The Navy has begun evaluating the second prototype electromagnetic (EM) railgun being developed by General Atomics and designed to capitalize on the potential of using electricity to launch projectiles instead of traditional gun propellants. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) said yesterday it has started to test the General Atomics launcher at a Naval Surface Warfare Center division in Dahlgren, Va., months after beginning evaluations of a competing railgun built by BAE Systems and delivered Jan. 30. The EM railgun…

Congress

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