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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 Runaway1956 on Friday October 27 2017, @05:06PM (2 children)
"I have no interest in military affairs"
It doesn't matter what your interests might be. Military people have an interest in you, along with every man, woman, and child on the world. Or, maybe you didn't realize that the NSA and the rest of the alphabet soup are military, in nature if not in in name.
Want to increase you military IQ about 100% with just one search on the internet? Try "fourth generation warfare". If you dive deeply enough into that hole, you may find that the "military" will soon be irrelevant anyway.
Of course, there are three kinds of people in this world. Some few make things happen. Others watch things happen. Most of you just wonder what the hell has happened. Follow that search term, and you MAY be able to watch things happen, and have a clue what is happening. Or not. The sheep are generally content in their holding pens . . .
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday October 27 2017, @06:40PM (1 child)
Okay, I think we're done. If you think I didn't know about this sort of thing--and its precursors dating 50+ years back--well, you being you, I'm not surprised. Run along with your little...heh...5-inch gun (you wish).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 28 2017, @01:35AM
You were done a long time ago, but weren't smart enough to understand that. And, no, you don't get away with that irrationality. "I have no interest in military affairs" but you know all about where warfare is headed. If you've bothered to learn all about it, then you have an interest.
Since you're so very smart, why don't you explain it all to me?