Railgun Reaches World Record of 33 megajoules

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Railgun Reaches World Record of 33 megajoules - Off-World Applications? (with Video)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1481
The Office of Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun located at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, fired a world-record setting 33 megajoule shot, breaking the previous record established January, 31, 2008.
There is some nice high speed footage in there :)

I calculate 33 MJ = 8124 m/s dV for a 1 kg payload.
 
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