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the Navy has unveiled a new secret weapon the developers call it a railgun this new high-tech weapon is smaller cheaper and more destructive as David reports it could dramatically change the way America fights Wars bar  propelled by an electromagnetic pulse the projectile comes out of the Barrel in a fireball of molten metal traveling at seven times the speed of sound as fast as going from Washington DC to Philadelphia in 18 minutes the projectile sheds its steel cladding and destroys whatever it smashes into in this case a dummy Warhead from an incoming missile 7 what's the speed of sound in oh by the way we can probably carry whole hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these on our ships just because they're so small they're so small does this mean gunpowder is a thing of the past it may mean exactly that David according to research the real gun is also dirt cheap compared to the multi-million dollar cost of today's missiles that projectile cost about one one-hundredth of the cost of one of our traditional missiles what does this cost promise right here about $25,000 so I can be moving targets play projectile round  take care of any threat that flies in the sky could be a ballistic missile to be a cruise missile could be a threatening aircraft traveling at Mach 7 pierce three walls of reinforced concrete this is a lab gun and shoot a slug about this big so think about that a slug that big a slug that big going Mach 7 puts a hole through 6/2 inch steel plate this big just this little slug went through all of the all six of the the rail gun is scheduled to go to see for the first time in 2016 aboard this cargo ship for further testing it's still just a potential weapon but one look at breaks a seemingly endless cycle of each new generation being more expensive than the last CBS This Morning David Martin Naval research laboratory I mean promising but also incredibly scary miss the science behind it's good to know that we have it I just hope we never have to use it play in three minutes or six half inch steel plates

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