Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
U.S. Navy railguns looked like a revolution: electromagnetic launch, hypersonic projectiles, long range, and a deep magazine that could ease missile shortages. The concept...
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U.S. Navy railguns looked like a revolution: electromagnetic launch, hypersonic projectiles, long range, and a deep magazine that could ease missile shortages. The concept...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy once touted the electromagnetic railgun as a game-changing ship weapon: Mach 7 shots, 100-nautical-mile range, and...
Meet Japan’s New Railgun: The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces (JMSDF) have deployed a ship-based electromagnetic (EM) railgun, a leading accomplishment in the development of...
Key Points and Summary: Japan has successfully tested a railgun aboard a naval ship, surpassing the US Navy’s $500 million, decade-long unsuccessful effort. Railguns...
U.S. Navy electromagnetic-pulse firing Railgun weapons technology had reached a substantial measure of technological maturity and been demonstrated in promising ways before the Navy...
Railguns are out. The US Navy has big plans for lasers and hypersonic missiles –Fifteen years and $500 million later, the U.S. Navy has...
While the concept of “directed-energy weapons” originated on the pages of pulp novels in the late nineteenth century, another weapon technology that seems straight...