Comment on Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel

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steltek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Uhh, I dunno how much declassification you’re looking for but here’s the US Navy’s Youtube channel with a video of some test firings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSce3nEY6xk

IIRC, the problem wasn’t that it didn’t work but that the barrels wore out too quickly to be useful. I suppose they could have put this on a Zumwault like originally intended but that would just be a PR stunt when the main problem was throwing the gun away after 10 shots.

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