US Navy Railgun (uses LabVIEW)

[Hornless.Rhino]

A nice LabVIEW control screen 18 seconds in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uV1SbEuzFU

[Ben]

Quoting my wife;

"Go Navy!"

It only makes sense. It was the Navy that piad for the Univac 1 and 1A and gave us Read Admiral Grace Hooper who invented COBOL.

What you can do when you can haul around your own unlimited energy source.

I wonder how much the projectiles cost?

Ben

Ex Fire Control Technician Missles Second Class.

[altenbach]

Cool. Very prototypical front panel, though 😄

• buttons so big that we need to scroll to see them all
• front panel does not fit the screen. If we scroll down to see the last button, we can no longer operate the tab control.
• Square LEDs that are dark green with black boolean text
• I like the three exclamation marks on the abort!!! button. 😮 (I would hope there is also a physical button for that)
• The frame color of the graph is plain ugly (and why does it need to show the legend for about 40 plots).

I wonder how the diagram looks like. 😉

[aeastet]

I was in the Navey for 5 years and I am a little surprised that they would allow for PC controls of this system. I would expect some hardware controlled very expensive system.

Maybe they are learning that costs a lot of money and thing can be done much cheaper if you prototype using less expensive options.

[altenbach]

There is that grey box with a key interlock. 🙂 I guess we cannot sneak in at night and play with the buttons. 😞

Maybe LabVIEW is mostly used for measuring the experimental setup. Another video says 33MJ of muzzle energy.

[Ben]

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@aeastet wrote:

I was in the Navey for 5 years and I am a little surprised that they would allow for PC controls of this system. I would expect some hardware controlled very expensive system.

Maybe they are learning that costs a lot of money and thing can be done much cheaper if you prototype using less expensive options.

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I am limited in what I can say but the term COTS has been popular with my military projects.

Ben

[aeastet]

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@Ben wrote:

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@aeastet wrote:

I was in the Navey for 5 years and I am a little surprised that they would allow for PC controls of this system. I would expect some hardware controlled very expensive system.

Maybe they are learning that costs a lot of money and thing can be done much cheaper if you prototype using less expensive options.

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I am limited in what I can say but the term COTS has been popular with my military projects.

Ben

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THat must be the new more efficient Navy. That is what happens when you have a limited budget to work with.

[altenbach]

COTS: better than hammocks, but worse than beds. 😄
(Just kidding, I know what you meant)

[Darin.K]

I believe that was built by a private company, check back when the Navy gets their hands on it. Hopefully more than just the railgun technology rubs off.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

"Speed destroys" Love it!

Actually I though it was the instant deceleration that was the destructive part!

-AK2DM