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Title: Not Even a Mountain Can Stop the U.S. Navy's New Experimental Railgun
Post by: rangerrebew on September 07, 2019, 10:46:35 am

September 6, 2019

Not Even a Mountain Can Stop the U.S. Navy's New Experimental Railgun

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by Dave Majumdar

Eventually, the Navy will have to test a full-up railgun. The trick will be to find a suitable range where the weapon can be fired at maximum range and velocity. But if the test program moves from Dahlgren, Virginia, to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it won’t be able to conduct the at-sea demo onboard a fast transport.


While the U.S. Navy had announced last year that it would take a prototype railgun to sea onboard the expeditionary fast transport USNS Trenton (JHSV-5) in 2016, the service may have to scupper those plans.

If the Navy does take the railgun out to sea on a fast transport, it will be in 2017 at the earliest. In lieu of testing the prototype rail gun in an at-sea environment, the Navy might instead proceed directly to developing an operational weapon system.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/not-even-mountain-can-stop-us-navys-new-experimental-railgun-78211