I think the EMALS issues will be solved before the rail gun issue, but I think they will nail that one too.
It’s a big change for carriers...
You are likely correct about the engineers...:)
Apparently I was right about the old railgun engineers. General Atomics engineers,
I found the following in the railgun and EMALS wikis:
The first weaponized railgun planned for production, the General Atomics Blitzer system, began full system testing in September 2010. The weapon launches a streamlined discarding sabot round designed by Boeing’s Phantom Works at 1,600 m/s (5,200 ft/s) (approximately Mach 5) with accelerations exceeding 60,000 gn.
The EMALS is being developed by General Atomics for the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carriers. A somewhat similar system, Westinghouse’s electropult, had been developed in 1946 but not deployed.[4]