Hyper Velocity Projectile program: the Navy’s electrically fired 5,600 mph GPS-guided bullet

The Office of Naval Research – the same entity which runs the Naval Research Laboratory, developers of the unbelievable Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) – apparently was not satisfied with their already astounding Electromagnetic Rail Gun.

A 5,600 mph electrically fired bullet apparently wasn’t enough, thus forcing the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create one which also can be guided by Global Positioning System (GPS).

To set the bar even higher, if such a thing is possible, the United States Navy also wants to make this technology compatible with all of the Navy’s current artillery guns.



This technology apparently has so much promise that Admiral Gary Roughead, former top officer in the Navy, said of technology like this, as well as lasers, (which have already cost the taxpayer billions), “You’re beginning, maybe, to see the end of the dominance of the missile.”

Roughead even told Wired’s Danger Room last year that the rise of lasers will create a global military division between “countries that can afford to go into directed energy and countries that can’t,” with the countries that can afford the research having the obvious upper hand.

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