Comment on China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky

School_Lunch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I wonder how much more energy it took to accomplish that compared to just shooting a rocket. Last I had heard railguns weren’t really feasible because of the absurd amount of energy they would require even with perfect efficiency.

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