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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:28PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday October 26 2017, @04:28PM (#587868)

    > The obvious is a really thin layer of seawater. The projectile glides on the water. The water boils off,

    Leaving behind salt, which you have to wash off quickly before it destroys everything.

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