How can the rest of the world even compete?
>>75536162
So it's a cannon that fires fast flying clips?
>>75536162
If it's not some pulsar cannon that can incinerate half the planet from space in less than a minute, it's a waste of time and money
It's not some anime girl who flips a coin and shoots it from her finger tips? No thanks.
>>75536275
I want a railgun. Are the leftists going to deny m my right?
>>75536228
You dont actually know what a railgun is, do you?
>>75536458
Are you implying that's what a railgun does?
>>75536162
you mean how the fuck can this thing compete with rockets?
no idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n9BSLKmyTo
>>75536612
It shoots them. very cost effective.
>>75536296
Railguns are inefficient as fuck why would they be something anyone needs to compete with?
>>75536162
Easy, it fires twice before it fucking falls apart, and we don't have so much fat stupid retards for you to target
>>75536275
I'd give more of a fuck if it was a vector controlling mathemagician tbqh mate
>>75536744
don't have one club.
>>75536612
This is a good point and I think a railgun bests rockets in the following ways
>Armor Penetration
A railgun can basically penetrate any amount of armor depending on the velocity of impact.
>Speed
Time to target is extremely short. This also allows for increased accuracy from a "dumb" shell.
>Uninterceptable
Cant hit something going this fast.
Definitely a niche technology but I think they are better than rockets for basically only ship to ship combat... maybe some special case on land. They could also be used to intercept rockets.
>>75536744
Sad!
>>75536635
It doesn´t shoot rockets it shoots massive metal projectiles, a railgun shooting rockets wouldn´t be too effective.
>>75536786
God I miss this show.
So much fun.
>>75536822
Aren't they supposed to replace ship artillery?
>>75536839
No it literally shoots at incoming rockets.
>mfw this is the first step towards real life Metal Gears
>>75536162
You can't even get the F35 to fly a proper mission.
It'll be several decades before you actually manage to bring those railguns to operational status.
>>75536822
Biggest benefit is cost per round, hundred bucks instead of hunred k
>>75536162
this was old as shit.
you wont need a propellant for em but youl need a GIGANTIC cap bank and a heavy source of power for em.
and when i say that you need a gigantic cap bank im talking about hundreds of thousands of farads, maybe millions if you want multiple shots.
>>75536228
tl;dr massive electrical current accelerates metal projectiles, completely eliminating the need for gunpowder and propellants.
>>75536162
Enjoy replacing the barrel every 3 shots faggots.
>>75537031
You still need to use some "exotic"(not exotic on weapons standard though) materials like depleted uranium for the sabots.
The problem with railguns has always been the source of power.
you just cant hook up 10 car batteries and make one, you need a power bank that has very VERY VERY tiny internal electrical resistance.
this is where ultra capacitors come in, your normal capacitors in electrical capacitors hold TINY fractions of a farad, like 0.001 farads n shit, while youl need about a million farads for this...
One 3300 farad ultra capacitor rated for 1.27 volts costs 50 bucks though aliexpress and that alone cant make a railgun.
even for a home made railgun youl need a good 20 000 farads unless youre just making something that lobs a piece of metal few meters.
>>75537031
There are estimates, that this rounds will cost more than conventional ones.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394715/railguns-next-big-pentagon-boondoggle-mike-fredenburg
>>75537323
a bunch of aircraft carriers are nuclear powered. Shouldn't that be enough to support one of these guns?
>>75536162
We've had nailguns for years, why is this news?
This "super nailgun" supposed to replace Mexicans or what?
>>75537468
it shoots them over the wall
>>75536980
Railguns are surprisingly simple technology.
The biggest issue with it is making the rails not be completely trashed after a few shots. A fuckton of electricity used to accelerate a chunk of metal so fast it creates a plasma trail means a lot of wear and tear.
There's no denying they have real potential in naval warfare, you could obliterate a target with precision 50km away and there's pretty much no way for them to stop it. It's still a niche technology, but worth exploring.
>>75537409
I'm no electrical engineer but I'm pretty sure he's talking about an issue of the cost of the equipment necessary to store so much power at once, not the problem of having power available.
>>75537492
Kek
>>75537493
>not the problem of having power available.
Ahh good point. I know storing a ton of energy has always been a problem.
>>75537174
>3
last I talked to those fags, which was years ago, it was like 45 a barrel.
>>75536162
>4500 miles an hour
That's like measly 2 km/second. And only at close range, because of linear trajectory.
>>75537493
>a target with precision 50km away
Not really. Unless you are shooting from a very high place.
>>75537493
>50km away
What about air friction?
>>75537653
The amount of energy these things put out, means air resistance is pretty irrelevant over 50km anyway.
>>75537493
Its incomparably cheaper to actually shoot vs a conventional missile
Just the rest of the parts that expensive as fuck
t. friends worked on the boat they want to put it on
>>75536822
>>75537031
>>75537323
The biggest advantage for these types of weapons is you can minimize conventional ammunition storage on ships.
Since Hornblower's day, hitting a ship in the magazine, or even causing a fire there, has been the quickest way to knock out a ship and while it may be fuel and high explosive it will still go bang if you hit it or heat it hard enough.
A bunch of capacitors designed to deliver a charge relying on kinetic energy doesn't have this problem.
>>75537628
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.html
>A projected naval rail gun with a 2.5km/sec muzzle velocity could deliver a guided projectile with an impact velocity of Mach 5 to targets at ranges of 250 miles, at a rate greater than 6 rounds per minute.
My mistake, I pulled a number out of my ass and the real number was actually much greater.
The projectiles that would be used are massive enough to not completely disintegrate after a certain distance (unlike smaller-scale tests). Aiming works the same as any kinetic weapon, what goes up will come down. They simply fire in an arc.
>>75537653
"Air friction" as we experience it doesn't work the same way at hypersonic speeds.
>>75537730
Yeah but doesn't air resistance increase proportionally with velocity? Doesn't it have more to do with the aerodynamic properties of the projectile?
>>75536162
NOW WE CAN FIRE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF OVERPRICED AMMUNITION AT GOAT HERDERS EVEN FASTER !1!!
We will just use the level upper
>>75536162
M8, this has existed for years.
>>75537493
You can't store AC electricity like you can with DC, to power a rail cannon you would need a separate and very powerful reactor to power it, a ship would need a nuclear reactor just for the rail cannon, which is a huge waste of space so I doubt you'll see them on ships anytime soon with any real function except being decorations.
>>75538031
>overpriced
>literally costs a few $ rather than the thousands other countries spend
>>75538015
Once you go beyond the sound barrier airflows change radically and that breaks down
>>75538118
Are you sure about that?
>>75536217
It's a discarding sabot round.
>>75538031
>overpriced
It literally just launches aerodynamic chunks of metal.
>>75538168
How much do you think a Tomahawk missile costs compared to a metal slug weighing no more than a few kilograms?
>>75536162
By building one? No revolutionary technology is involved. It's for precision, taking out engines and the such like. It would have it's uses, but a good old fashion gun does just fine with less accuracy required, as well as less weight and power.
With gunpowder, you are essentially carrying vast amounts of energy with you. With the rail gun the energy needs to either be generated at hand, or transported in batteries, that must them be converted to AC for the operation of the rail gun if my understanding is correct.
This process isn't efficient. If it becomes sufficiently advanced, however, it could replace some weapons entirely. We are talking way down the track though. The ability to fire one shot and disable any enemy vehicle.
>>75538118
you forget the monstrous amount of electricity needed and the fragility of the system that is prone to critical failures on constant bases
if it was easy and cheap everyone would have done it
USA is great at solving problems that do not really exist in the first place
>>75538342
Mass drivers will be the future of any weapons in space I think. Lasers are a meme.
>>75538168
bullets will always be cheaper than missiles, no matter what propaganda pieces might say
Canada just invented quantum computers. Step it up ameridumbs. Less gun inventions and more thinking ones.
>>75538354
The great engineers of yester year wouldn't let a technical fault discourage them. They just work around it or remove the fault. Of course that is over simplifying, but the potential of this weapon to precisely disable practically anything is tantalizing.
>>75536162
Does it fire poo?
>>75538354
>you forget the monstrous amount of electricity needed
you forget american ships already have nuke plants onboard
>>75538402
Lasers might have their place, but yeah, shit like rail guns would be top shit. No air resistance, dead on target; we are talking space battles conducted at hundreds of miles of distance between combatants at this stage.
>>75538422
For rail guns it is just a sturdy peace of metal in all seriousness. Not as expensive as a massive shell, surely. It would doubtlessly be made with tungsten however.
>>75536162
>Only one Metal Gear post in this thread.
Come on /pol/, get it together.
>>75536162
I wonder what they did to stop the plasma sheet burning up the projectile
>>75538354
>USA is great at solving problems that do not really exist in the first place
The US military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned about has been running for almost a century.
After they outmatched the Soviets they've been inventing a fictional story to push the need to advance technology, and now they're somewhere around "what if an alien race came down to Earth to pick a fight using advanced tanks".
Because there's nothing on the planet that warrants these weapons or this spending. But the leeches are in place, the barrels of tax money pork must flow and the defense contractors need to be paid.
So railguns and invisibility cloaks and billion dollar jets that can't even outcompate last generation fighters it is.
But you can't afford a basic social net with healthcare. That would ruin the country. :^)
>>75538165
>Once you go beyond the sound barrier airflows change radically and that breaks down
This, this is why hitting mach 1 was such a big deal, but it's been easy to keep beating the speed record since. After you hit mach 1 resistance falls away and its like a knife through butter
How about making better regular guns? Surely the metallurgy improved since the last time we seriously used them.
>>75538574
Who cares about the projectile, what about the gun itself? If it can shoot 10 100$ rounds and then require the replacement of 10 million$ barrel then it's a useless weapon.
>>75538503
>space battles conducted at hundreds of miles of distance between combatants at this stage
You know, a bucket of rusty screws would do just as fine.
Also note this kills Chinas supersonic ship missile.
>yfw Chinas hypothetical aircraft carrier killer has already been countered by something thats set to be tested in the field now
when?
>>75536162
> Supergun
> super jet
> super spaceship
> super sociopathic society
> super nothing
>>75538923
Nope, try harder, Senpai
Learn what is 'Hypersonic' and 'Scramjet'
And why Jane said that you should jump off the London bridge, ya quack
>>75537409
youl have to tone down the voltage alot(unless you want to ruin your barrel with the first shot) and a capacitor bank
>>75537628
>>a target with precision 50km away
more flat earth proof, perhaps
>>75538342
>With gunpowder, you are essentially carrying vast amounts of energy with you. With the rail gun the energy needs to either be generated at hand, or transported in batteries, that must them be converted to AC for the operation of the rail gun if my understanding is correct.
>This process isn't efficient. If it becomes sufficiently advanced, however,
It isn't an efficient method of transferring energy at all, that's correct. It's still more efficient than exploding chemicals, though. That's why railgun shots are estimated at an order of magnitude cheaper than an equivalent conventional missile.
>>75540468
Is it cheaper than a conventional chunk of metal though? Considering the cost of replacing the barrel every other shot.
>>75536162
>current year
>fucking hybrid turrets
>not assault missiles master race
>>75538734
holy shit, why didnt they teach me that in uni physics?
i even had a 'mechanics' physics course dedicated to stuff like that on my engineering degree but the dude never mentioned anything about air resistance not being linear with velocity
>>75536954
They are intended to replace ALL artillery, ultimately. Right now the energy consumption require a generator that only a ship can carry.
Next step will be to get that on trucks, since the range allow to stay safely away from the front line.
>>75540857
>had a 'mechanics' physics course dedicated to stuff like that on my engineering degree but the dude never mentioned anything about air resistance not being linear with velocity
I wonder how the future of air combat will look like with railguns in play.
>>75536162
just curious, how are you going to power it ? that thing need quite a lot of juice.
>>75538031
You sound like a poor country lol.
>>75536162
they don't
they suck up to get military protection from papa russia and china
>>75536162
They can't.
That's the point of being American.
>>75541646
I honestly can't imagine a case in forseeable future which something that flies wouldn't be better off with conventional weapons.
>>75538354
Cheap, comparativly. Easy, no. Other countries cant be bothered. We can just sit just outside the range of all other countries guns and shoot them withing our superior guns. Kind of like holding a midget's head while he flails at you. Other countries need to get gud desu. Feel sort of bad for them.
Wasn't one tested by BAE Systems a long time ago, which is in fact a british company? Americans back at what they do best, stealing stuff.
>>75536162
>first look
I saw shit about this MONTHS ago, last year even.
>>75542404
Footage from 2007
>first look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54aLcC3G74
>>75542359
Was more considering shooting them with railguns.
How exactly would a plane deal with a mach 5 projectile ramming his face?
>>75542404
I want to say there have been videos of this out there for the better part of a decade.
I think it just speaks to how aware (or unaware) normies are to tech developments.
>>75537409
They can't generate enough electrical power because their propulsion is driven directly off of turbines, and the eletricity is generated from separate generators. The new Zumwalt class destroyers use electric propulsion partially to be able to support lasers and rail guns and other high electrical power loads.
ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE.
WHAT IS AN EMP GUYS!
>>75536786
Sauce?
Too big to use in schools so it is impractical for muricans
>>75542861
Funny cunt.
>>75542861
Are you serious?
We could set it up in the gym or on the field and start firing into the classroom buildings.
>>75536296
>Mikoto's railgun has a velocity of 1000 m/s
>Fires a coin that can blow up cars and shoot down helicopters
>Kinetic energy is about the same as a 5.56 NATO round
I have always assumed that raildex espers' powers only work as they understand them so ideally an esper is a math savant with no understanding of physics.
>>75542975
But how little nignog will hide it in his pants?
>>75538734
You are retarded. You are absolutely retarded.
Drag is proportional to the SQUARE of the velocity and it INCREASES EVEN MORE when you pass Mach 0,8 due to sonic booms and shit. Double the speed, more than quadruple the drag. Triple the speed and more than ninetuple the drag. With extreme velocities you'll slow down soooo fast.
>>75543032
>have a railgun, that somehow fires an non magnetic alloy
anime everyone.
>>75539601
Is that some new kind of Muslim haiku?
Very nice of BAE systems to make this for you
>>75542707
A certain scientific railgun, a spinoff of another series called a certain magical index. Pretty much a city state made up of schools in japan is full of psychics. Magicians from the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican church want to fuck them up because reasons.
>>75536162
to all the people who call this useless...
at some point, anti-missle weaponry will be perfected. it will no longer be capable of being furtherly improved, because there will be nothing more to improve. they will reach absolute effectiveness, significantly reducing the value of missles on the field.
what are you gonna do then? throw your entire missle arsenal at one fleet, just to find out that only 10% of the missles got their target?
no. you develop railguns.
>>75536162
>implying this is new
>>75536742
Yeah, they're so inefficient only rich and luxurious America can afford to do them. That's why we've been dominating everyone else for the past century.
>>75538112
They're being deployed this summer
>How does it compete with rockets
>Implying launching stealth nukes isn't better
>>75543535
Feels good man. The lesser countries need to take 5 min to stop suckling the teet of their welfare and start working so maybe, just maybe they wont be so poor and weak.
>>75538428
I didn't know Google was a Canadian company.
Also, didn't we win the culture victory over you? Any prestige Canada gets goes straight to america.
>>75538354
>oh no, the first iteration isn't perfect
>this means the whole thing is completely useless
>i'm totally not a jealous butthurt Aussie I swear
>>75536162
>measuring projectile speed in miles per hour, not meters per second
fucking cringe
also, railguns are old news
unfortunately I dont have any slowpoke.jpgs any more. can someone else do it for me, can do it for free?
>>75543641
We can track rockets and shoot them down. Railgun projectile is faster than any rocket. Its not ment to replace nukes. We already got the world beat there. It is ment to fire at lesser targets than cities like other ships and military instalations.
>>75542613
You wouldn't be able to aim it reliably. Missiles can be guided.
This is like shooting down a plane with a massive slingshot.
Although I suppose if the fired projectile is fast enough, this could be plausible.
>>75543641
It's incredibly cheap to fire for one.
>>75537628
>>75537653
>sweating russian soldier . png
>>75540744
Fuck of DRF scum
>>75536162
Isn't that the same report for the 50th time?
When do you git gud at fusion already?
>>75536162
Why don't you niggers just build a fucking school? Or a hospital? If you absolutely have to blow on the military, how about a VA hospital that's NOT filled with rats and leaking plumbing? You're like the fucking Indians covered in shit and dying from dysentery and covered in sores but waving around a fucking space program proposal. What is WRONG with you?
But that's really none of my business.
*sips tea*
>>75543815
You can't spot the railgun firing from satellite
You can't track its projectiles
All you need is some legs to create a mobile launch site
>>75542613
The Oerlikon 35 mm fires 550 rounds/minute, was developed in the 60s, and it's discarding sabot rounds have a muzzle velocity of mach 4.9.
>first look
videos of us navy railguns have been around for years
>>75543167
>>have a railgun, that somehow fires an non magnetic alloy
How do you know? She fires arcade tokens, that can mean any number of combinations.
>>75543684
Feels less good when you realize that China is going to fucking wreck our shit during our lifetimes. They have four times as many people and capitalism is doing what it does best and is bringing them up out of poverty. They already make all our shit, they're gaining the engineering and manufacturing edge already.
>>75536162
its made by BAE
>BRITISH
>AEROSPACE
>ENGINEERING
just because we dont have a fun fetish it doesnt mean we dont know how to build shit still.
>>75538428
You know why supercomputers are in Canada and not THE FUCKING CALIFORNIAN DESERT?
Because it's colder in canada, thus the cooling bill is less. These things put out a fuckton of heat
>>75544069
>4km range
I'm pretty sure nothing flys that low anymore. Could be wrong tho.
stop shitposting
>>75538816
>You know, a bucket of rusty screws would do just as fine
Fired fast enough, yeah
>>75544008
desu i'd rather have a railgun than a school
>>75537174
Can't they just make the barrels low cost and easy to change? I thought it was mostly the rails that wore out.
>>75544185
>increasingly sweating chinaman.jpg
>>75544313
DESU the railgun would probably kill fewer anyway.
>>75544008
>Caring about schooling for poor people
They are a lost cause anyway. Better off having space stations and railguns.
>>75540468
The DC to AC process isn't the most efficient from a battery. And if you didn't do that you would need to be starting up a generator every time before firing.
Gunpowder is a more convenient and compact way of carrying those newtons. However advancements in batter technology could change this.
As for efficiency, the military tend to focus more on what works than what cost, primarily so with pieces of expensive equipment than people.
>>75544313
Fuck you Mohammed. I didn't know they had WiFi in prison.
>>75544069
>>75536162
>Mach 4.9
>4500 mph
Why the fuck are you guys measuring muzzle velocity in the most retarded ways possible? Use meters or feet per second like a reasonable person.
>>75536275
This my magical leaf friend.
>>75536786
I will never understand Accel's strenght changing instantly from "i will fucking murder you so hard you little bitch Earth's rotation will change" to "get off my way or I'll hurt you really bad"
>>75538428
>Canada invented quantum computers
>article reads "a team of Google and NASA engineers"
W0t m8? Fucking leaf lmao
>>75536162
With hypersonic missiles, nuclear torpedoes, flak suppression shields, 100 kiloton intercontinental nukes and the most powerful combined armies/navies/airforces on the planet?
>>75544517
Media belief: larger numbers = more impressive.
>>75544185
Their military is garbage. If their economic system was any good, with that amount of people they would have dwarfed the US already. If Trump does what he says he is going to do, then China will become weaker and the US stronger. The nation must take but it's means of military production and give it back to the American market, as well as domestic production.
>>75536162
There's no kill like overkill, imagine shooting this at some mudslime fucker.
>>75538636
They are preparing for pax-americana when the repo-man comes for USA's debit they will Demand tribute from everyone
>>75544654
>Fine red mist
>>75536162
Cant wait till this is used against the chinese at south china sea
>>75543167
I was under the impression that railguns required a conductive material, not a magnetic one.
I want to say the current goes down one rail, across the sabot, and down the opposite rail.
That should mean the space between the rails has a relatively uniform magnetic field through which the electrons in the sabot are moving.
Then electrons moving through the sabots in the magnetic field created by the rails, if I remember my vector shit right, cause it to accelerate down the rails.
Pretty sure you're thinking of coilguns/gauss rifles.
>>75544759
>gunner's face when
>>75544888
Didn't you get the memo? If Trump wins, it's America first, they won't help us. That said, I wouldn't mind the murricans testing their new toy on the Chinks.
>>75544185
>Rorororo China strong, you bow down now, western gweilo!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGs_dcXt-3k
>>75536162
Does that rail gun shoot healthcare to your citizens?
>>75544185
we had this debate years ago before this board was polluted with retards like you basically usa wins any war with china that happens anywhere except for on mainland china
>>75545294
No, but unlike your healthcare the projectile gets there immediately instead of having to get a referral and wait 8 weeks
>>75544517
>assblasted about converting between different units
You have to go back.
Also the conversation was established in machs.
The discarding sabots from the Oerlikon are 1440 m/s and SI mach is 295 m/s.
>>75545294
It could reduce the numbers of uninsured, yes.
>>75545294
>9 month wait to fix physically crippling back problems
yeah nice healthcare ya got itll only get worse the more do nothings you import in that help the economy by consuming white tax dollars
>>75545401
America bringing the bantz
>>75545401
Really? How long do you wait for healthcare when your insurance company won't cover the treatment?
Also, you do know that the USA has some of the worst waiting times for treatment in the world...right? I mean, compared to Canada and the EU, you know that the USA ranks dead last in terms of the time you wait for treatment...right?
>>75545294
>le britain has good healthcare meme
when will this joke die?
>>75545409
I see. You prefer a healthcare system where the hospital simply refuses treatment and leaves you to
>>75545520
Significantly better healthcare than your country, as evidenced by longer life expectancy and better health outcomes.
>>75544432
Nigga your middle class is ignorant as hell. 80% of you believe in personal angels and think that the Levant is a new type of Chrysler.
>>75542686
Science fiction you dumb nigger.
>>75545520
it wont the nhs is crumbling and desperate bongs wiping fresh muslim cum from their eyes wont see it till it fully collapses
>>75545495
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/238028/Ex-NHS-chief-dies-waiting-for-op-at-her-own-hospital
>smugfrog.jpg
also
>""""""""""free""""""""""
>>75536162
>BAE help create it with the navy
>burgercucks taking all the credit as usual
Try not to blow yourself up with it you stupid cunts
>>75545495
I agree with all the others but I HAVE to call bullshit on the last one. I have shit insurance with a shit copay and gp to the south side clinic for urgent care/emergencies and the longest I've ever waited was 35 minutes
>>75545520
>tiny island vs 300 million population Super Power
>tiny island has to wait months to see a doctor
>300 million people can walk in and get it fixed that same day
But, since I pity Bonglanders since your country is getting cucked I'll concede this one to you out of respect.
>>75545570
no hospital is allowed to refuse treatment patients however can
>>75545195
The PLA is fucking useless, but it could more than likely achieve it's goal of seizing Taiwan and defending it from US counter attack, even if they can only really do so by firing anti-ship missiles en masse at any US fleets that enter area
>>75545495
Cont' forgot to also add whereas during three emergencies when I studied abroad in the UK, I once waited with a concussion friend (you know that's pretty serious) for 6.5 hours in the ER
>>75545716
no fucking way
>>75545570
It is literally illegal under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act for a hospital to deny you treatment, fucktard.
Maybe you should spend more than a few months there before you start pretending to be british, Hachmed
>>75545294
>guaranteedreplies.post
>>75538636
>"what if an alien race came down to Earth to pick a fight using advanced tanks".
Fuck yeah, I loved In the Balance.
>>75545741
was meant for
>>75545570
whoops
>>75536612
Rockets are incredibly slow in comparison.
If a missile is going to be launched from a decent enough range, it will be a much slower cruise missile.
The U.S. has gotten really good at shooting down incoming rockets, and they suspect you guys are behind but will eventually catch up.
Hence, railguns.
>>75536786
She did nothing wrong though
There just no good reason...
>>75545725
As if
>>75545997
Where/what is Vanatu?
>>75536162
That moment when it's designed by a British Company.
>>75545997
R A R E
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>>75545814
"""""""free""""""" healthcare at work.
I guess you get what you pay for
>>75546092
...if you only had a large database of information at your fingertips...
>>75544619
>>75545195
>>75545324
Did you guys miss the part where I said
>in our lifetimes
Of course we would wreck their shit currently, but look at the fucking trends and extrapolate. It doesn't take a genius to see that at this rate they'll overtake the US soon. If they chose to pour more resources into the military, they could give us a run for our money currently. That's the scary thing about an authoritarian government with complete control over the people and their combined powers of production.
>>75544591
>the most powerful combined armies/navies/airforces on the planet?
God I love being american. I get hard thinking about this.
>>75536162
Idk but Mexico 2.0 is really spending money on military
I-i-is the battleship finally coming back guys?
>>75538636
you realize alien invasion is one of the only real potential things that could happen to wipe out the human race
>>75536162
That's half the speed of the Russian antiship missile.
>>75545997
Niceeee
this will push carriers off their dominant position.
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>>75546157
>more government is the solution! says the bong
>>75536162
> first look
> same photo for 10 years
>>75536162
To answer your question:
For example russia competes with enough warheads to destroy all US cities 7 times over and over and also competes with 10.000 infiltrated in US infrastructure spies to every 1 spy you have in russia lol
You are lied to you were never number one.
>>75538310
The one pictured is actually basically a metal brick. They moved on to tungsten penetrators with a sabot later.
>>75546368
>Pooskin immigrants don't pay taxes
>Pooskin immigrants cost NHS 13 BILLION a year
>Brits are paying 70% tax so Muhammad can spawn 9 or 10 little Mohammads while he's on his mission inside bonglanistan
>MFW English speaking brits will all starve to death because no one understands what they are syaing when they beg for change on the streets 3 years from now
>>75544573
>>75543691
The company that makes them is D-Wave. Google and NASA just bought one.
>>75546281
>jelly of the month club
>>75546606
I think their point is that America creates the demand for technological progress.
Or they're just not big on reading comprehension.
>>75538354
>monstrous amount of electricity
Oy vey if only we could out a nuclear reactor on a ship
>>75546164
...or you can tell us about your great country, proud Vanatumese.
>>75545294
It will shoot democracy to your people soon enough
Some of you guys are cool, don't go to the European Union tomorrow
>>75543343
The obvious response to railguns shooting down your warheads is using railguns to launch your warheads. This is just one more step in the never ending escalation of war.
>>75546880
I'm not from there...I'm about 150nm from Loltong. Check muh namefagging.
>>75538428
This is retarded, quantum computers are not faster than regular computers, just faster at doing specific tasks. They are better cause they can work with a superposition. Essentially they can find a needle in a hay stack with one operation, rather than how a regular computer checks every strand.
I can see it now .. burger delivery by railgun
>>75547457
I can see it now .. immigrant delivery by railgun
>>75547524
I can see it now ... both of our nations firing immigrants at each other as live ammo
>>75543804
I want metric fags to leave.
>>75547566
I can see it now ... both of our nations deport bad immigrants to each other
>>75536162
>freedoms are now 4500 miles an hour fast
what a time to be alive
>>75536162
How are these rounds against armour/targets that aren't close to 90 degrees/vertical, the beauty of rockets is they can adjust and come in at any angle.
Then again, Rail gun tech isn't meant to replace rocket tech, more arty/cannon
>>75543143
At least someone knows some basic physics.
>>75546290
Not likely, even if Trump wins. The cost to retrofit an Iowa class would be equal to BUILDING a Ford class carrier
>>75547101
>150 nm
This loltong seems to have been machined to some nice tolerances.
>>75545294
HEALTHCARE IS A PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHT
>>75549025
>russia with the metric bantz
nautical miles, russiabro
t.oldfag
>No working healthcare
>Corrupt political system
>Highest rate of gun deaths in the developed world
>Unmaintained highway system
>Unmaintained electrical system
>Unmaintained telecom system
>Largest prison population in the world
>"Hmm, how do we fix this? I know, let's spend billions of dollars on a new gun!"
Amerifat logic
>>75549039
>>75549417
at their police are fighing the brown people that are killing/raping everyone
>>75549417
>Unmaintained infrastructure
When will this meme die? Ive driven through every state just fine and had access to everything everywhere, except cell service in remote areas.
>>75536162
This has been a thing for a long time. We've had one mounted on a ship in the ocean for a while.
>>75546290
Let's hope so. Broadsides make me erect.
>>75549417
>railguns
>new
Also, the gun wasnt made to address any of those listed issues, this gun was made to address counter-measures by having a dumb object fast enough to cause damage.
Strawman Arguments, Euro Logic.
Don't forget to prep the bull either.
>>75537409
Yes but not "directly." You don't just plug the rail gun assembly into the reactor and there you are.
You need a very expensive and sophisticated bank of capacitors and regulators to hold and modulate the power the gun system requires.
It's why the new aircraft carriers will have rail catapults instead of steam--it's possible to regularly and safely use that system as compared to firing the high-power guns with respectable pacing.
>trusting the supersonic jew
>>75544564
Brain damage.
He can't do the math for all that BS anymore without borrowing processing power from the Sisters.
>>75544050
METAL GEAR
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>literally a mobile railgun launch platform for tactical nukes that can be deployed anywhere in the world
>>75546290
Ooooooh yeah.
Probably a completely new design though. One that's designed with nuclear reactors from the get go.
And maybe thorium reactors will finally become a thing. They're pretty small and harmless in the radiation department but produce a lot of power and respond quickly to power demands compared to conventional uranium-based reactors.
>>75542399
I think you mean BUYING stuff. Not our fault we are rich and not poor like you retards.
>>75536839
This is why you Krauts keep losing wars, you have no imagination.
>>75549857
I've lived in both America and Europe. Your roads are generally shitty and unmaintained compared to Europe, even eastern europe. The electrical system is shitty because it's too expensive for you to bury lines, which causes instabilities and power failures even outside of rural areas. In the US, investing in a surge protector is a necessity to protect sensitive electronics. Your internet access is so shitty that it's only surpassed in shittiness by australia. Your cell phone business is completely corrupt, it's nearly impossible not to get ripped off when buying cell phones in the US. Your cell coverage is useless compared to most of Europe. There's literally one place in all of Sweden where you have no cell phone access on the GSM band, and few areas without 3G access. Compare to the US where major parts of the country outside of metropolitan areas lack any cell phone coverage. For the record, the population density in Sweden is lower than in the US.
>>75536786
>People watch trash like this and their lives revolve around the subculture
>>75549857
>>75550839
Also, your water is fucking horrible. I've been to over 25 states in the US, and every single place I've been to has had disgusting chlorinated water. I don't see why Americans always claim this isn't the case, the tap water in (I would guess at least a large majority of) America would in Scandinavia not be considered fit for human consumption without being filtered.
>>75550922
okay one it's just a cartoon you don't have to watch it and two, the funny part is japs hate white weeaboo faggots just as much as we do. maybe more.
>>75537563
Not just energy but instantly available energy.
