[freedumb2003]

>>Where is that rail gun going to be installed!<<

It looks like it will be deployed with phasers and photon torpedoes!

[ClearCase_guy]

It really was designed as a railgun platform. Massive electrical power output -- and like in Star Trek, the power can be freely diverted to where it is needed. You need speed? "All power to forward engines!" You want to bombard a coastal city? "All power to railgun!"

The platform is floating now.
The railgun technology isn't quite ready (but it's close).

Eventually there will be a re-fit so that the ship really has a railgun. At the moment, it has two advanced gun systems which perform a very creditable land attack function.

And it's got a lot of missiles.
And it's very stealthy.