NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN, me bucko, Va (Dec. Avast, me proud beauty! 10, 2010) T' Office o' Naval Research Electromagnetic Railgun located at t' Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, me bucko, fired a world-record settin' 33 mega-joule shot, breakin' t' previous record established Jan. 31, 2008. T' railgun is a long-range, me hearties, high-energy cannon launch system that uses electricity rather than gunpowder or rocket motors t' launch projectiles capable o' strikin' a target at a range o' more than 200 nautical miles with Mach 7 velocity. A future tactical railgun will hit targets at ranges almost 20 times farther than conventional surface Man-O-War combat systems. Ya scallywag! (US Navy video/Released)