Energy requirements for a railgun are enormous. I don't see how an amphibious assault ship can supply such power. As a floating testbed, it might work -- perhaps they load the ship with some sort of energy source or battery storage.
In the US, part of the focus has been on integrated power systems that can be tapped as needed and provide the electricity which is needed.
And there are other issues as well. I think China is not as far along as they want people to think.
They probably have a very long extension cord.
The use the energy left over from the vacant 30 million homes that the Chicoms have built
I tend to agree, though none of us know for sure. That said, what Trump has done by simply standing up for the US and fighting back in the trade war that already existed is to have already diminished the Chinese economy and thus their ability to develop weapons systems. We owe him a lot, and all of us should be willing to fight for him against people like Schumer, Pelosi, Mueller, etc., as he has fought for us.
Yeah, I don’t see it a feasible either.
A railgun would use an amazing amount of electricity, then the recoil would be huge, thus throwing some of the electrical equipment off kilter, and the next time they fired the rail would create a massive electrical arc due to misalignment and blow off the bow.
That’s completely ignoring the issue of the heating of the rails.
Don’t tell me that the U.S. Navy, once run by the leader of the Queens Navy, (forgotten his name already), is going to use “solar power” for its “railguns”.
I can just hear the radarman yelling, “Captain, there be typhoons”. End of game. End of ship.
While it is clear the Zumwalt class is basically a test bed in the form of a possibly deployable vessel, they did build the infrastructure into the ship electronically to be able to drive a rail gun.
They have an integrated Power System (IPS) that can take 80 MW generated by four marine turboshaft generators, and distribute the power flexibly.
That is a huge amount of power, enough for a railgun, but I suspect they just couldn’t work out the bugs in time to put it aboard, so they have a 155 mm main battery.
"This is likely because its open cargo bay is capable of holding the extensive array of batteries and generators necessary to power the next-generation weapon."