Your Survival Guy

Preparing your investments and family for when disaster strikes.

Disclosure

  • Home
  • Your Survival
    • EMP Threat
    • Tucker Explains
    • Newport Gas Outage
    • Water
      • Emergency Water Storage
      • Let There Be Water
    • Get Your Gun and Your Training Now
    • Satellite Phones
    • Navy SEAL Survival Kit
  • Your Money
    • Coronavirus Infects Stock Market
    • Looking for a Better America
    • You Invest, They Win
    • Where to Keep Your Cash
    • Paris
    • How to Buy a Boat
    • Dead or Alive? The Future of Long-Term Investing
    • Is Vanguard too Big?
    • Cryptocosm and Life After Google
    • The Last Intelligence Report
    • The Truth Behind the S&P 500
    • RAGE Gauge
    • How Many “Retirees” Will Keep Working?
    • Your Retirement Life
    • You’ll Love This if You’re Dreaming of an Active Retirement Life
  • Weapons
    • Self Defense
    • Every Family Should Own at Least One Shotgun: Here Are Three
  • About Me
    • Preparing for Times Like These
    • My Videos/Pics
    • Music
      • RIP Neil Peart: You Will Always Be Remembered as a “Modern-Day Warrior”
  • You
    • Our Cabin on Kodiak, Alaska
    • If You Are in Pain, this May Help. It Helped Me.
    • How to Save for a Grandchild
    • FIRE! Financial Independence, Retire Early
    • Compound Interest
    • Arithmetic of Portfolio Losses
    • Maximum Portfolio Withdrawal Rate
    • An Efficient Frontier
    • Retirement Compounders
    • Counterbalanced Total Returns
  • Survive & Thrive
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • October 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • April 2019
    • March 2019
    • February 2019
    • January 2019
    • December 2018
    • November 2018
    • October 2018
    • September 2018
    • August 2018
    • July 2018
    • June 2018
    • May 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018
    • Welcome

Blitzer Railgun Demonstrates Mobility: Could Lead Way to Truck Mounted Railgun

May 10, 2016 By The Editors

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that its Blitzer® electromagnetic railgun system was demonstrated at the U.S. Army’s Fires Center of Excellence annual Maneuver and Fires Integration Experiment (MFIX), April 4-21 at Ft. Sill in Lawton, OK.

“This event marks another milestone for our railgun team,” stated Nick Bucci, vice president, Missile Defense and Space Systems at GA-EMS. “After the successful test firings of our guidance electronics units at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah one month ago, we disassembled the Blitzer railgun system and transported it to Ft. Sill where it was set-up and fired during the MFIX event. Our goal was met in showing how our advanced weapon system can be efficiently transported from site to site. Testing our system under real world conditions at different locales enables us to gather the critical data necessary to improve the system’s efficiency to meet future customer mobility requirements.”

There were eleven firings of the Blitzer railgun during the MFIX event, all at a target with a range greater than previous Blitzer firings. At the completion of MFIX, GA-EMS’ Blitzer railgun system will be transported back to Dugway Proving Ground in Utah for further testing later this year.

GA-EMS’ Acoustic Detection System, an unattended ground sensor system for multi-target simultaneous detection and tracking, was also featured at the MFIX event. The system is capable of monitoring multiple sensors simultaneously and provides visual detection and tracking of acoustic and seismic sources.

MFIX is an annual exercise to inform requirements, validate/refine concepts, address capability gaps, and assess solutions for incorporation into the future Army Warfighting Assessments. The exercise brings together military and industry partners to view and conduct demonstrations of key technologies such as the Blitzer railgun.

Source: General Atomics

If you enjoyed this post, email it to a friend:

  • Email
  • Print
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • WhatsApp

Related Posts

Trending

  • There's Always a Way Forward for Americans Like YOU
  • Your Personal Safety: Concealed-Carry How to Carry Your Freedom
  • PANDEMIC Pushes Military-Grade Surveillance on Americans Like YOU
  • How Are You Doing on a Local Level?
  • February RAGE Gauge: Americans Focusing on What's In Front of Them
  • Don’t Be on Their Radar, Get Out of Debt Now
  • Tucker Explains: Who Is Biden Nominee Kristen Clarke?
  • Do You Know Who’s the Largest Owner of Farmland in America?
  • The Fed is Sacrificing Retirees to Save the Banks
  • The Death of the Dollar and America's AA Credit

YOUR SURVIVAL GUY MUST READS

  • Merry Christmas from Your Survival Guy
  • Fire Yourself Up: Financial Independence Retire Early
  • Debate Flashback 2016: “Because You’d Be in Jail”
  • Why They Flee
  • Why Vanguard is too Big: Part VII: What Do You Have to Lose? A LOT
  • Chinese Virologist Says China Manufactured COVID-19, Calls it “Frankenstein” Virus
  • #1 Reason Why Your Survival Guy Owns an AR-10
  • Why Buying Bonds Matters in Times Like These
  • The Man Behind Milton Friedman’s Classic Free to Choose TV Series
  • The Fix is In: How President Trump Wins the Debate
Only if You’re Serious
Only if You’re Serious
Only if You’re Serious
Escape the City
Smith Family Robinson
Only if You’re Serious
Why Vanguard is Too Big for YOU
See Who's Missing the Boat
You Invest, They Win
Emergency Water Storage
Emergency Water Storage
Emergency Water Storage
Why Fidelity is Number One

Copyright © 2021 | Terms & Conditions

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.