China has made military history by installing a functional railgun onto a warship beating the us. The railgun can draw its power from an onboard electrical system or large battery navy officials said. Navy in developing this new weapon.
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Navy is funding lasers and killing the railgun corrected some 300 million will go to the new projects.
In the way that cannons use gunpowder to launch a projectile railguns use electromagnetic energy.
Us navy chief of naval operations john richardson conceded that the project is encountering problems when he told a house appropriations subcommittee on march 7 that. The us navy has bought two incredible laser cannons that are capable of blasting drones out of the sky. Recent examples on the web. When our solar system is discovered and attacked by an advanced civilization not with a projectile but with a device that.
The us navy of the future is going to look a lot more.
The latest version a 5 inch62 caliber mark 45 mod 4 in flat panel gun turret test firing on uss forrest sherman in 2007.