The United States built guns that fired bullets 7 times faster than sound

The US military has successfully tested a new dangerous super weapon, which can fire artillery shells at 7 times the speed of sound .

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Described as "Star Wars technology" , such super weapons once existed only in the science fiction world for centuries. However, it is about to become a reality thanks to successful land trials and an experiment on a US warship scheduled to take place over the next two years.

Using electromagnetic energy, the new gun could fire a 10kg shell with a speed of more than 8,690km / h over a distance of over 160km. The force and accuracy of the shell fired extremely high, enough to penetrate three layers of concrete walls or 16.5cm thick steel plates.

The Pentagon hired weapons maker British BAE Systems and an American company to separately build two prototypes of super weapons.

Major General Matthew Klunder, leader of the US Naval Research Agency, said that this futuristic electronic gun has undergone large-scale testing on the ground. It is expected to be installed on the USNS Millinocket high-speed train for sea trials in 2016.

Diagram to simulate the operational structure of the new super-electromagnetic gun of the US military.(Photo: Daily Mail)

The electromagnetic weapon was one of the key areas of research of the Strategic Defense Initiative under former US President Ronald Reagan, nicknamed "Star Wars" , named after a ministry. Hollywood movie science fiction movie.

General Klunder emphasized: " The electromagnetic weapons will help the US defend the air, strengthen the defense of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles . We have also discussed a kind of gun that exerts its power with the The cost is only 1/100 of the cost of current missile systems, it will repel our enemies in a certain time, do we need to rely on a navy ship? ".

The warships can carry dozens of conventional missiles for approximately $ 1 million per pod, but can install hundreds of electromagnetic guns for only $ 25,180 each. Advanced electromagnetic weapons use speed instead of explosives to destroy targets.

According to researchers' findings, the new US military super weapon is a railgun, which uses an electromagnetic force called the Lorenz Force . Firearms fired from two rails produced electricity from the barrel at tremendous speed. This means, guns have a longer range than regular guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to deal great damage.

The idea of railgun guns first appeared almost a century ago and was granted patent rights to French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee. The Nazis had applied research on it during World War II to transform their anti-aircraft guns.