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Re:The Navy's Railgun is finally dead by tschwimmer on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:03PM (#27523698)
This should be celebrated. Not spending money on projects that don't have a purpose is obviously the correct choice.

It seems however that it's being deprioritized in place of hypersonic missiles, which are a frightening and potentially destabilizing technology in their own right.

Re:The Navy's Railgun is finally dead by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:08PM (#27523735)
China already has several variants of hypersonic missile “carrier killers”, DF-21/26 for example; US DoD development of such technology is to maintain force parity, and long range ordinance protects high value assets (carriers) from close range combat.

I hope learnings from this railgun make its way into broad military power control electronics, and trickle down to consumers if there is value.

Re:The Navy's Railgun is finally dead by sitzkrieg on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:59PM (#27524398)
it won't. its incredibly impractical to power
Re:The Navy's Railgun is finally dead by ta2162 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:13AM (#27525136)
The amount of electrical power to shoot a single round was immense, the greatest known energy used to propel a projectile from a railgun was 33 megajoules.
Re:The Navy's Railgun is finally dead by Goety on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:08PM (#27524456)
I've heard that before