The Warzone/The Drive: U.S. Army Forges Ahead With Its Railgun As Navy's Commitment To The Tech Is Questioned
The Navy may have been the loudest about its railgun dreams, but the Army is quietly moving ahead with turning the tech into something deployable.
There have been largely unfounded claims that the Navy is 'abandoning' what was once its most high-profile future weapons technology, the electromagnetic railgun. But even though the Navy's railgun program continues, it still exists largely in a primordial research and development state. Meanwhile China shocked the world by moving forward with fielding its own prototype railgun for shipboard testing. But the U.S. Army, with the help of the Pentagon's Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC), is quietly aiming to move General Atomics' scalable "Blizter" railgun concept into a semi-operational state.
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WNU Editor: I always thought that it was going to be the Navy that would be the first to deploy a railgun. Apparently not.
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As long as a laser is coaxial, I'm good to go.
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