RE: [tlug] [OT][WAY OT] Perhaps of intereste to Sci Fi Fans:

[<burlingk@example.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Robson
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:54 AM
> 
> burlingk@example.com wrote:
> > Officials say an EM railgun on-board a ship could increase ship
> > design options because the gun weighs less and requires less 
> > infrastructure than traditional guns that use gunpowder and 
> magazines.
> >   
> 
> The US Navy still uses gunpowder? (>.<)
>

Every Navy does.  If it is not a missile, it is gunpowder.
How do you think they fling the large shells that only go
a couple hundred yards?  Currently, Short range == Gunpowder.
^^  We are making technilogical strides, but most of those
strides of late have been in video game technology, not weapons. :P