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

Cory Doctorow 9:23 am Wed Apr 20, 2011

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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