I am a pacifist and not make believe. I am real. I will fight you if you want me to. I am not a purist. And I am not a coward. I stand by what I said earlier and that is essentially this: destroying the Earth in order to extract strategic metals to create Super Weapons is PURE EVIL. Making monstrous devices in order to mass murder is sociopathic.

Why not find a more intelligent use for our mineralogic wealth?

Is invading a weaker nation in the guise of "blah blah blah" in order to take their riches justifiable if the other nation is at a superior level of technology and industry? And therefore is it ok for a healthy young man to take a decrepit old ladies purse because he could indeed make better use of her money?

Don't ever confuse peace with weakness. Some of us think that our specie is on the wrong path. And then again, some of you seem to derive sadistic pleasure from other people's suffering.

How would you like it if your son came back from a war with missing limbs? Yeah I know, he was brave. Tell that to his fiance.

How would you like it if we were invaded and butchered?

I am sorry if I offend anyone here. I love technology and respect our military. I detest violence nonetheless and would love to see our metals used for something intelligent and benefical to all of humanity.  If you disagree I am sorry if it hurts your feelings. Go take MMA lessons and fight a fair fight. Lilke a man.

lol, I'll refrain from being a smart ass just this once but only because you left your-self open to all kinds of "sucking" cracks and jokes.... auntie.

Indeed, I was. You got the right idea of what I meant when I was talking about scientists thinking that "man", aka a human being, would never break the sound barrier when traveling back in the early days prior to the common use of jet engines. Before Yeager there were of course rumors and myths that the sound barrier had been previously broken, but none of them were ever actually proven in a test and to my knowledge Yeager was the first. I do think there might be a chance that the Nazi's broke the sound barrier with the German built "ME 262" jet fighter and it's also possible that perhaps one or two allied planes unintentionally exceeded the speed of sound in an evasive diving maneuver, but neither of those examples were ever confirmed.

Awesome weapon, and it's so nice to find British Aerospace (BAE Systems Ltd) at the forefront of this technology.

There are helicopters that break the sound barrier?

There are people who feel a need to answer that? ....

Yes I do feel the need.

When the outright speed record attained by a helicopter is.....Sikorsky X2 unofficially 258 mph...at last calculation quite a bit below Mach....

Meanwhile the 'advancing' rotor tips are going to be nudging compression...

Arnie has two...

Well....if it is I didn't do it, lol, I pulled it off yahoo like that. And yes I did think it a bit unusual to see a chopper wrapped up in one. Its the leading edge of the main rotor blade tips that do the breaking. Wup wup.

I guess a big gun mounted on a railway 'carriage' could be called a 'rail gun'....sorta like painting "ncc1701" on the side of a V2 and call it the Starship Enterprise.....

I think you are mixing up the German rail gun DORA with the our version.

DORA is called a rail gun bc you had to put it on a train.

The railgun and gaussgun are old concepts but impratical till now but even then we still have issues with them.