US Navy’s new ‘Star Wars’-style railgun hits Mach 6
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/02/05/us-navys-new-star-wars-style-railgun-hits-mach-6/?cmpid=NL_SciTech
Yes, this is the first step towards modern weaponry for the US Navy. This is all very interesting because in my Virus series (Book 1, to be released in Feb.) I have the US Navy using rail guns or Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) weapons to defend the remainder of the human race.
A suspicious virus wiped out 99.9997% of the people on Earth and when the remaining humans discover the likely source of the Virus, they need the HVP to survive.
The article describes the HVP in more detail. Simply described, a powerful electrical weapon fires a guided projectile at Mach 6, which is about 4,500 mph. The weapon will have a range of 100 miles, which is about 3 times that of conventional weapons.
In my series Virus, the world has few weapons or men to defend humanity. The sea battles become critical for the world’s survival and they are hard-fought. The final reason for so much death and destruction comes to the dismay of everyone in the follow-on book to the Virus and SIMPOC series (Released this summer).
Check my new series out when it starts to release next month.
Ray Jay Perreault
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