Task & Purpose: The Navy's electromagnetic railgun is undergoing 'shakedown' tests at the White Sands Missile Range
The Navy's electromagnetic railgun is undergoing what officials described as "essentially a shakedown" of critical systems before finally installing a tactical demonstrator aboard a surface warship, the latest sign that the once-beleaguered supergun may actually end up seeing combat.
That pretty much means this is could be the last set of tests before actually slapping this bad boy onto a warship, for once.
Personnel at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division's (NSWC PHD) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Detachment began testing of the railgun's power system and universal mount, two essential components that in recent years have stymied efforts to produce a ship-board tactical demonstrator for the the $500 million supergun.
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Update: Navy's Railgun Now Undergoing Tests In New Mexico, Could Deploy On Ship In Northwest (Warzone/The Drive)
WNU Editor: I guess it is only going to be a matter of time before we see this electromagnetic rail-gun on a ship.
1 comment:
it looks so official with a guy in a flannel shirt loading it and the girl in a Boston Bruins jersey firing it.
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