04.10.2021, 15:12
Zufällig gefunden (Meldung von Juli d. J.) und alten Strang "ausgegraben": Die Thematik Railgun bzw. Gauss-Geschütze scheint sich wohl erledigt zu haben...
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Zitat:US Navy ditches futuristic railgun, eyes hypersonic missileshttps://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/0...-missiles/
BATH, Maine — The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.
The Navy spent more than a decade developing the electromagnetic railgun and once considered putting them on the new, stealthy Zumwalt-class destroyers built at Maine’s Bath Iron Works. But the Defense Department is turning its attention to hypersonic missiles to keep up with China and Russia, and the Navy cut funding for railgun research from its latest budget proposal. “The railgun is, for the moment, dead,” said Matthew Caris, a defense analyst at consultancy Avascent Group. [...]
All told, the Navy spent about $500 million on research and development, according to Bryan Clark, an analyst at the Hudson Institute. The technology was close to making the leap from science fiction to reality in the 21st century with the testing of prototypes. [...] But there were a number of problems. Those included the range of about 110 miles in testing. A Navy vessel could not employ the gun without putting itself within range of a barrage of enemy missiles.
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