[MtnClimber]

That is some serious velocity. Interesting that the slow motion film showed that the projectile seems to have a flat nose profile.

[allendale]

Its all about surveillance. Given modern technology of all sorts, once a ship is located, it can be sunk in a variety of ways. Sorry Navy, but the era of big capital surface ships is over, Simply not ethical to deploy five thousand young sailors on a big carrier in an operational area against a technologically capable opponent.

[WENDLE]

How many pregnant women were on board?

[Bullish]

Site wants me to turn off my addblocker or I can’t continue?
Screw them.

[Celtic Conservative]

Do these have warheads or are they just kinetic energy devices?

CC

[PGR88]

railguns can potentially operate much cheaper

Government and Defense contractors? Not a chance.

[chris37]

I was looking for a direct link to the video on youtube being that I use adblock, and I'm not going to turn it off for anyone, and I came across some very interesting videos of a homemade railgun, test firing of that railgun, mounting of that railgun to a robotic base and using it as a cake mixer, and finally how to build a homemade rail gun. Truly interesting, so I figured I'd post links to them in this thread.

Backyard field test 250 lbs. railgun 27,000 joules

250lbs. railgun versus car door 27,000 joules

250 lbs. railgun confirmed lethality ballistics gel test

World's first railgun tank 35,000 joules; let's make a cake

How to build a railgun experiment

Direct link to video in article for those with adblock

[doorgunner69]

They have been showing these rah, rah, rah, videos for some years now.

Let me know when they are actually on ships...........

[John Locke]

It looks like this:

[Tallguy]

I think every Nimitz-class carrier since “Reagan” has anticipated the need for greater electrical power generation for future weapons and/or EMALs.

[gaijin]

Later

[archy]

The Navy is going to fit a rail gun aboard a naval vessel? What are they going to use, one of those Littoral combat designs?