Iran Has Developed a Functioning Railgun, This is Probably Not a Big Deal
by Max Eddy | 2:40 pm, October 24th
According to a report from the FARS News Agency, Iranian scientists have developed a functioning railgun. These weapons, as science fiction fans and defense acquisition nerds will surely know, use electromagnetism instead of combustion to fire projectiles at incredible speed. At such high velocity, the relatively small size of the projectile doesn’t matter since force still equals mass times acceleration, meaning that smaller rounds could inflict heavy damage.
In the description from FARS, the Iranian railgun does sound like an achievement. The report says that the weapon can fire 8mm steel rounds at 35 rounds per minute. The device has a reported muzzle velocity of 330 meters per second, and requires a 2 second cool down period after each firing.
With those specifications, the question of how formiddable a weapon this is — or later iterations could be — is an obvious one.
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