Development of a futuristic weapon depicted in video games and
science fiction is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip
an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard a
destroyer planned to go into service in 2018.
The Navy has been testing an electromagnetic railgun and could have an operational unit ready to go on one of the new Zumwalt-class destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works.
Adm. Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated
the idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another
vessel this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B.
Johnson, though no final decision has been made.
"The Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for
the electromagnetic railgun," said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy
spokeswoman. "Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some
platforms will be better suited for the technology than others."
Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a
projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound -- creating enough
kinetic energy to destroy targets.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/14/navy-may-install-railgun-for-zumwalt-class-destroyer.html
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Monday, February 15, 2016
THE ELECTRIC GUN COMES TO REALITY AS THE ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN TO BE A POSSIBLE TARGETING FOR INSTALL ON THE NAVY ZUMWALT STEALTH CLASS DESTROYERS IN 2018 - JUST IN TIME TO COUNTER THE N KOREA PLAN FOR GLOBAL DEVASTATION WITH ITS NEW FOUND ICBM AND H BOMB MENTALITY - WITH A KNOCK DOWN KINETIC FORCE ABLE TO GO THROUGH MULTIPLE CONCRETE BLOCKS
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