February 8, 2019
The Navy Just Admitted the Much-Hyped Railgun Is a Total Mess
What happenned?
by Task and Purpose
Less than a year after declaring the U.S. Navy "fully invested" in the service's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is apparently experiencing some buyer's remorse over the $500 million supergun's troubled development .
Appearing before an audience at the Atlantic Council on Thursday, Richardson characterized the decade-old weapons system — capable of accelerating a projectile to hypersonic speeds but stuck in research and development limbo without a ship-board tactical demonstrator — as "the case study that would say, 'This is how innovation maybe shouldn't happen.'"
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navy-just-admitted-much-hyped-railgun-total-mess-43877
