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U.S. Navy Plans Test of Hyper Velocity Projectiles Fired From 5-Inch Guns
The Navy plans to fire 5-inch diameter non-explosive projectiles [scout.com] 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 [baesystems.com]. 5-inch gun [wikipedia.org]. Found at NBF [nextbigfuture.com]. 🔫🇺🇸
Related: U.S. Military Increasing Development of Directed Energy Weapons [soylentnews.org]
U.S. Navy's New Mach 6 Electro-Magnetic Railgun Almost Ready for Prime Time [soylentnews.org]
