I live 10 miles down river from this place…. Been testing for over 25 years…. My house rattles twice when it’s fired… first report comes from projectile breaking sound barrier near my house.. 2 nd report comes seconds later from sound of rail gun firing….
Most impressive to me is how that high-speed camera tracked perfectly and horizontally a projectile travelling at 8270 f/s (that's a whopping 5638.6 mph or 9074.5 km/h!)
Unfortunately I don't think that the desired rate of fire was achieved. And also the Barrel material degraded too quickly so they needed another solution which they haven't come up with yet. until then awesome gun I'd love to see it in service maybe coastal defense would be great for it.
Have always had an interest in these weapons ever since reading military science fiction books by author Keith Laumer. The Bolo seemed to include every weapon known to man plus an AI core!
Years ago, I heard of a concept for a naval gun by which, instead of one explosion pushing a projectile down a barrel, there would be several explosions pushing the projectile even as it moved. Any word on how that worked out?
A good amount of the weaponry here goes back a few Wars though I'm not certain how complete or accurate this is. Like with the Phalanx, is that not the last line of defence, is there not other missiles used to take out an incoming missile?
