[Yo-Yo]

About time this boondogle was cancelled.

[Red Badger]

So, it’s been electrocuted?.................

[Leaning Right]

I’m a little disappointed. I was hoping to see the railgun mounted on California’s high-speed train. It would have made one heck of a coastal defense weapon, and so well worth the expense.

[Midwesterner53]

Not a woke project, no future in it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The Navy announced on Friday that the service has “decided to pause” research and development of the much-hyped electromagnetic railgun (or EMRG) at the end of 2021 in light of the growing need for tranny surgeries, the effort to root out evil white supremacists, and conducting critically important CRT indoctrination sessions and struggle sessions.

[Jonty30]

I don’t think of it as a boondoggle. It would have been amazingly cheap to launch solid metal missiles without needing fuel. This would have allowed ships to have more missiles on board.

They just found something better in the form of lasers.

[Tell It Right]

In other words, Emperor Xi was afraid of it and wanted development of it stopped.

Is this a repeat of the Democrats slowing down SDI (missile defense) every time they're in office, under the auspices of not wanting to make Russia mad?

[TauntedTiger]

If high speed rail in California was cancelled we’d have something.

[llevrok]

Does this also include the catapault on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) ?

[setter]

Probably developed something more lethal

[discostu]

Rail guns always sound cool. But in practice that is a LOT of energy to try to put on a portable system.

[backwoods-engineer]

Why doesn’t the Navy just preemptively surrender to Communist China, and be done with it once and for all?

[jz638]

What about the tin can that was supposed to carry the railgun? If that’s not also cancelled, this is just a shell game.

[ASOC]

Paused so the CHICOMS can catch up/surpass the US?

[PapaBear3625]

Competitor: the ramjet-powered artillery shell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIPNElDkns

A ramjet is cheap and efficient, and by using air instead of carrying its own oxidizer can go further. But it needs to be traveling at over Mach 1 in order to start functioning. So you shoot it out of a cannon to give it its initial velocity.

[katana]

The extreme range artillery round the army is reportedly developing might make the electromagnetic railgun concept redundant, or at least put it on a backburner for a few years. 130 km range for a precision guided high explosive round might work as well at sea as on land. The videos of static tests of a railgun projectile have not looked even close to ready to transition to a real weapon system.

[a fool in paradise]

How much budget is being redirected into combating global climate change?

[tallyhoe]

Some company now will come forward and say we solved the problem!!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Barrels kept wearing out.

[Mrs. Yuleeyahoo]

They need the money for all of the anticipated gender correction surgeries after they ban the recruitment of heterosexual males.

[Libloather]