The United States Navy developers
are now moving into the second phase of its testing for the electromagnetic
rail gun that the United States Navy leaders hope to mount to the surface ships
in future, this was said by the service officials at the Annual Symposium of
the Navy Surface Warfare Association.
The United States rail gun is a high
energy, multi- mission, long-range weapon that is able to fire at high-velocity
projectiles three times far as the most existing guns of the Navy. “We’ve
gone through prototype phase 1 and had two industry gun systems. We’re now on
phase two which will give us multiple rounds per minute,” said by the Rear
Admiral chief of Naval research. Klunder expressed its enthusiasm that the said
rail gun successfully went 8 — 8 in recent test firing at the White Sands
Missile Range.
“It went exactly where we told it
to go with good telemetry,” the admiral explained.
The US rail gun can hit at ranges
up to 100 miles or even more, it uses electricity that is stored on the ship to
generate high—speed electromagnetic pulse that is sufficient to propel kinetic
energy warhead. The result is an inexpensive yet high-impact and a long-range
offensive weapon.
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