Rail Gun Video Transcript - 75 Seconds
Speaker Key:
CNO: ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations
D’ANDREA: Dr. Elizabeth D’Andrea, ONR Electromagnetic Railgun Program Manager
BGEN: BGEN Thomas Murray, Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab
NARRATOR: The Navy’s Office of Naval Research conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia. The audience included the Chief of Naval Operations, ADM Gary Roughead.
CNO: We should never lose sight of always looking ahead, looking to make our capability better, more effective, and as warriors, more lethal.
NARRATOR: The railgun projectile, moved forward by electromagnetic energy, instead of explosive propellants, raced towards its target at a record-setting muzzle energy of 10.64 megajoules. In the future, the railgun will be able to fire a projectile more than 200 nautical miles.
D’ANDREA: The projectile will launch, and go into outer space, and then come back and put steel on target at Mach five.
MURRAY: Our ships will never be able to get as close to shore as they can now to provide fire support for Marines, Special Forces, other services as they go ashore, and this gun will do that for us.
NARRATOR: The program’s goal is to demonstrate a full capability, integrated railgun prototype by the 2016 to 2018 timeframe.
Rail Gun Video Transcript - 2 Minutes
Speaker Key:
CNO: ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations
D’ANDREA: Dr. Elizabeth D’Andrea, ONR Electromagnetic Railgun Program Manager
BGEN: BGEN Thomas Murray, Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab
COL: Col. Steven Bullmore, Army Capability Integration Center
ELLIS: Roger Ellis, ONR Railgun program technical director
NARRATOR: The Navy’s Office of Naval Research conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia. The audience included the Chief of Naval Operations, ADM Gary Roughead
CNO: We should never lose sight of always looking ahead, looking to make our capability better, more effective, and as warriors, more lethal.
NARRATOR: The railgun projectile, moved forward by electromagnetic energy, instead of explosive propellants, raced towards its target at a record-setting muzzle energy of 10.64 megajoules. In the future, the railgun will be able to fire a projectile more than 200 nautical miles.
D’ANDREA: The projectile will launch, and go into outer space, and then come back and put steel on target at Mach five.
BGEN: Our ships will never be able to get as close to shore as they can now to provide fire support for Marines, Special Forces, other services as they go ashore, and this gun will do that for us.
NARRATOR: The railgun program that has pulled together partnerships from the other services, science industry, and the United Kingdom. Railgun partners agree that safety is one of its potential advantages.
COL: It allows me to get energetics, powder and explosives off of combat systems, I still have the ability to kill things, but I no longer have things on a combat vehicle with soldiers that explode, things that could hurt the soldier other then the enemy.
ELLIS: So no longer do you need the explosive propellant, but you can accelerate projectiles much further, much faster, then you ever could practically do with conventional weapons systems.
NARRATOR: The program’s goal is to demonstrate a full capability, integrated railgun prototype by the 2016 to 2018 timeframe.
Rail Gun Video Transcript - 3 Minutes
Speaker Key:
CNO: ADM Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations
BERNARDES: Jack Bernardes, Pulse Power Engineer, NSWC, Dahlgren
CNR: RADM William E. Landay III, Chief of Naval Research, ONR
D’ANDREA: Dr. Elizabeth D’Andrea, ONR Electromagnetic Railgun Program Manager
BGEN: BGEN Thomas Murray, Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab
GARNETT: Charles Garnett, ONR Railgun project manager`
MG: MG Peter Gilchrist, Head British, Defence Staff, Defence Attache
COL: Col. Steven Bullmore, Army Capability Integration Center
ELLIS: Roger Ellis, ONR Railgun program technical director
NARRATOR: The Navy’s Office of Naval Research conducted a record-setting firing of an electromagnetic railgun at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia. The audience included the Chief of Naval Operations, ADM Gary Roughead.
CNO: We should never lose sight of always looking ahead, looking to make our capability better, more effective, and as warriors, more lethal.
NARRATOR: The railgun projectile, moved forward by electromagnetic energy, instead of explosive propellants, raced towards its target at a record-setting muzzle energy of 10.64 megajoules.
BERNARDES: The previous world record for muzzle energy was just below 9 megajoules, today’s record is about 10.5 megajoules.
CNR: So this test moves us out of what we know and what the world kind of knows, because we’ve seen it before, into power levels we haven’t seen before.
NARRATOR: In the future, the rail gun will be able to fire a projectile more than 200 nautical miles.
D’ANDREA: The projectile will launch, and go into outer space, and then come back and put steel on target at Mach five.
MURRAY: Our ships will never be able to get as close to the shore as they can now to provide fire support for Marines, Special Forces, other services as they go ashore, and this gun will do that for us.
GARNETT: We can be there in about six minutes, so if you on the battlefield calling for fire because somebody is shooting at you then you want that fire there as quickly as possible and that’s were railgun truly can excel.
NARRATOR: The railgun program has pulled together partnerships from the other services, science, industry, and the United Kingdom.
MG: Watching it from a point of view of ships safety, from ability logistics, from the ability to be able to fire these huge ranges, it’s really a fantastic effort.
NARRATOR: Railgun partners agree that safety is one of its potential advantages.
COL: It allows me to get energetics, powder and explosives off of combat systems, I still have the ability to kill things, but I no longer have things on a combat vehicle with soldiers that explode, things that could hurt the soldier other then the enemy.
ELLIS: So no longer do you need explosive propellant, but you can accelerate projectiles much further, much faster, then you ever could practically do with conventional weapons systems.
GARNETT: I have no doubt that twenty years from now my young engineers will be telling stories about how they were there when the system started and there are all these systems out in the fleet that they helped initiate.
NARRATOR: The program’s goal is to demonstrate a full capability, integrated railgun prototype by the 2016 to 2018 timeframe.