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Originally posted by slabsides45:
My public school math says that's about 1.5 miles per second muzzle velocity. A MiG-29 can go about 1520mph, per Google, so that is about ~0.42miles per second.

So for aerial targets 3 miles out (ridiculously close), that EM round would take 2 seconds from fire to intercept, and in that 2 seconds any deviation from calculated flight path would likely mean a miss, right?

I see this as a spectacular land to sea weapon (ships are sitting ducks with this), or land to land. Maybe I'm missing something?

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
I have mixed feelings about this gun and technology. Our military can rarely obtain approval to fire on potential threats that are all but next to them. Can you imagine them trying to get approval to fire on a threat beyond the horizon? We need some serious changes to our ROE (that are likely never coming) before putting this tech in place.