China in world-first deployment of experimental electromagnetic rail ‘supergun’ aboard a warship

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The US-BAE rail gun is intended to fire a 10kg projectile at Mach 7 (8500km/h) over 150km. China is believed to have acquired a key technology enabling the development of the electromagnetic weapon after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 when it bought …
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