19.04.2025, 09:31
Japan hat eine Railgun für den maritimen Einsatz vorgestellt:
Schneemann
Zitat:Japan releases image of Railgun installed on naval vesselhttps://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/202...al-vessel/
On April 18, 2025, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) released an image of its state-of-the-art railgun currently undergoing testing aboard the test ship JS Asuka. [...]
In the Japanese MoD, railgun development is conducted by the Ground Systems Research Center (GSRC), a division of the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA). ATLA began full-scale development of the railgun in 2016. Under the name “Research on Electromagnetic Acceleration Systems,” the research was conducted from FY 2016 through FY 2022. The target in this research was a muzzle velocity of 2000 meters per second and a barrel life of 120 rounds. In other words, the goal was to achieve stable firing up to 120 rounds at a constant muzzle velocity. [...]
ATLA achieved the first ship-board firing test of a railgun in October 2023. Based on the results of the research to date, the project is now moving on to “Research on Future Railgun,” which will be conducted from FY2022 to FY2026. While previous research has focused on firing projectiles from the railgun, the current research aims to advance this research into a “gun system” equipped with a series of mechanisms for actual operation. [...]
Japan’s ATLA and the French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL) signed last year a Terms of Reference (TOR) with the objective “to explore the possibilitiy of collaboration for research, development, test and evaluation of Railgun technologies”.
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