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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I don’t think it would need to be all that long. The Navy tried putting railguns on ships, they decided against it because they figured out pretty quickly that the munitions would have to be shot lower than the horizon so that they weren’t firing shots into space, if they missed the target.

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