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Navy's 'Star Wars' weapon could be used on a new stealth warship:
• dailymail.co.ukRail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph with such force that it penetrates three concrete walls
Weapon uses electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound
Navy wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers