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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the faster-plinking dept.

The Navy plans to fire 5-inch diameter non-explosive projectiles from deck-mounted railguns:

The Navy plans to fire a high-speed, long-range rail-gun Hypervelocity Projectile from its deck-mounted 5-inch guns to destroy enemy drones, ships, incoming missiles and even submarines, service officials said.

The effort is led by a special Future Naval Capability program.

Navy officials say the program is leveraging commercial electronics miniaturization and computational performance increases to develop a common guided projectile for use in current 5 inch guns and future high velocity gun systems. The HVP effort will seek to increase range and accuracy of the 5-Inch Gun Weapon System in support of multiple mission areas, service developers told Warrior.

Developed initially for an Electromagnetic Rail Gun next-generation weapon, The Hyper Velocity Projectile, or HVP, can travel at speeds up to 2,000 meters per second when fired from a Rail Gun, a speed which is about three times that of most existing weapons.

BAE Systems Hyper Velocity Projectile. 5-inch gun. Found at NBF.

Related: U.S. Military Increasing Development of Directed Energy Weapons
U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 26 2017, @03:57PM (#587857)

    Homes must be maintained. Water quickly rots them out if the roof or shower tile fails. One must respond quickly, with money and effort.

    Think of it like a dirty pot of beans in the refrigerator, but worse. It's something that needs to be dealt with. At least the beans won't make holes through bottom of the pot.

    So then as each home is destroyed, it gets abandoned, and somebody needs to bulldoze it. Soon there are no homes.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @03:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 27 2017, @03:27PM (#588254)

    > Homes must be maintained.

    As the GP said, this is true even for houses that are uninhabited. Banks and mortgage companies don't always do a good job of it [sun-sentinel.com].