{"id":34359,"date":"2017-02-10T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/future-warfare-meet-the-electromagnetic-railgun"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:40:50","slug":"future-warfare-meet-the-electromagnetic-railgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/future-warfare-meet-the-electromagnetic-railgun","title":{"rendered":"Future Warfare: Meet The Electromagnetic Railgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3C6lrTkBXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the U.S. Army\u2019s annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX), the Blitzer railgun performed successfully during eleven test firings. The test projectiles contained a Guidance Electronics Unit (GEU), which beamed back telemetry indicating the shells achieved an acceleration of over 30,000 gravities, and that all components survived the multi-Tesla magnetic field that powers the launcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to perform risk reduction and technology maturation of projectile designs and components to culminate in an integrated demonstration of a maneuvering railgun launched projectile,\u201d says Nick Bucci, vice president of Missile Defense and Space Systems at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ga.com\/ems\" target=\"_blank\">General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next step is to integrate the system into a mobile, truck-based platform.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-warfare-general-atomics-railgun-test-lead-truck-mounted-systems\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/future-warfare-general-atomics-railgun-...d-systems\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the U.S. Army\u2019s annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX), the Blitzer railgun performed successfully during eleven test firings. The test projectiles contained a Guidance Electronics Unit (GEU), which beamed back telemetry indicating the shells achieved an acceleration of over 30,000 gravities, and that all components survived the multi-Tesla magnetic field that powers the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58785,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions\/58785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}