{"id":71597,"date":"2017-08-03T07:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-us-navys-railgun-breakthrough-could-change-energy-storage"},"modified":"2017-08-04T03:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T10:07:38","slug":"the-us-navys-railgun-breakthrough-could-change-energy-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-us-navys-railgun-breakthrough-could-change-energy-storage","title":{"rendered":"The US Navy\u2019s Railgun Breakthrough Could Change Energy Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-navys-railgun-breakthrough-could-change-energy-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New capacitors offer big power storage and transmission in a mini-package, with benefits beyond electro-cannons.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy\u2019s shipboard railgun is moving from the lab to the testing range, a big step for a weapon designed to fire massive bullets at hypersonic speeds. But a separate breakthrough in electrical pulse generation \u2014 capacitors that provide a bigger jolt in a smaller package \u2014 that may reshape the future of naval power.<\/p>\n<p>The railgun\u2019s electromagnets are designed to accelerate a Hyper Velocity Projectile from zero to some 8,600 kmph, about Mach 7. That velocity requires a lot of power. In early testing, the Office of Naval Research had relied on banks of commercial capacitors to pulse electricity to the gun. But they were \u201cnot suitable for integration aboard a ship\u201d \u2014 too large to fit aboard Zumwalt-class destroyers, as Thomas Beutner, head of ONR\u2019s Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department, explained during a July event in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/08\/us-navys-railgun-breakthrough-could-change-energy-storage\/139953\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer642d7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2017\/08\/us-navys-railgu...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New capacitors offer big power storage and transmission in a mini-package, with benefits beyond electro-cannons. The U.S. Navy\u2019s shipboard railgun is moving from the lab to the testing range, a big step for a weapon designed to fire massive bullets at hypersonic speeds. But a separate breakthrough in electrical pulse generation \u2014 capacitors that provide [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,45,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-finance","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71652,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71597\/revisions\/71652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}