May 31, 2019
Mountain Destroyer: Will the U.S. Navy's Killer 'Railgun' Still Get Built?
It could be historic if it does.
by TNI Staff
It’s no longer the deep dark secrets of what can I do with this sort of energy. It’s engineering and how much power density can I get, how much beam quality can I get, what sort of metallurgy do I need to sustain multiple shots over multiple periods of time. The rail gun as well as the laser.â€
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.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/mountain-destroyer-will-us-navys-killer-railgun-still-get-built-60282
