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The Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun is a 32-megajoule electro-magnetic laboratory rail gun being evaluated by the US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Air Warfare and Weapons Department. The US Navy is pursuing development of the launcher system through two industry teams – General Atomics and BAE Systems – to reduce risk in the ...
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Long-term contracts, such as BAE's 17% share of the U.S. F-35 fighter program, and an order book of over a year's sales, provide visibility to BAE's revenues. Long-term contracts can have an ...
LONDON -- BAE Systems is the £12 billion U.K. defense firm behind some of the most ambitious projects in the world. One of the company's biggest current jobs is the manufacture of the U.K.'s next ...
The Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/70 (Swedish: 57 mm sjöautomatkanon L/70 (57 mm SAK 70)), [1] [2] among other names, is a series of dual-purpose naval guns designed and produced by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors (since March 2005 part of BAE Systems AB), designed in the late 1960s as a replacement design for the twin barreled Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60.
BAE Systems Inc. (formerly BAE Systems North America) is an American subsidiary of British multinational defense, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems plc.The American subsidiary operates under a Special Security Agreement which allows it to work on some of the most sensitive United States defense programs despite its foreign ownership. [2]
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In 2010, the United States Navy tested a BAE Systems-designed compact-sized railgun for ship emplacement that accelerated a 3.2 kg (7 pound) projectile to hypersonic velocities of approximately 3,390 m/s (7,600 mph; 12,200 km/h; 11,100 ft/s), or about Mach 10, with 18.4 MJ of kinetic energy. It was the first time in history that such levels of ...