New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets

Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by Animats on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:02AM (#12897798)

The Zumwalt was designed for railguns. The third ship of the class will have at least one railgun. That fires dumb projectiles at some insane velocity. Maybe the earlier ships will get an upgrade.

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by roryisok on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:45AM (#12899170)

and I bet they don't cost $800,000 each

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Re:New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets by Animats on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:52PM (#12902372)

Here's the Navy's railgun.[1] Each projectile costs $25,000. Not clear why it costs that much.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXF0n6aojSc

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