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April 20, 2011 02:38 am PDT

Railgun fires Hugo Awards through steel plates and then 7km further

General Atomics' new railgun uses a high-speed sabot (which looks suspiciously like a Hugo Award) that is fired with such force that it travels for 7km after punching through a steel plate. "We were launching hypersonic bricks at Mach 5, Mach 6" (via Geekologie)...


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