r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Nov 15 '25

Technology Hypersonic railgun round goes through metal plates like they are made of paper.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '25

There's metal and there's metal. Without knowing the alloy composition and thickness, this isn't saying a great deal.

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u/ThickPrick Nov 15 '25 edited Nov 15 '25

In the comments it said the plates were military grade M3 reinforced plates. They use these on satellites to bounce off space debris in orbit. Also, I have no clue what I’m talking about.

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u/superbackman Nov 15 '25

Works great until the satellite becomes the space debris. Then you need even thicker armor to protect your new satellite from the floating reinforced plates.

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u/MoistStub Nov 16 '25

They should just install a parry module on the new one so it can parry the collision