Video: Navy's Record-Breaking Missile Launch

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 23:30 in Astronomy & Space

The U.S. Navy says its electromagnetic railgun is the cannon of the future. On December 10, 2010, the gun launched a non-explosive missile at 33 megajoules, tripling the record it set in January, 2008.

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