Long In Development Hypervelocity Rounds For Navy Railguns And Deck Guns Killed Off In Budget
The Navy and other services had hoped to be able to fire hypervelocity projectiles from various guns at a range of surface and aerial threats.
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The Navy’s Railgun Looks Like It’s Finally Facing The Axe In New Budget Request
The Navy has been working to make the idea of a railgun an operational reality since 2005.
Testing Points To Relevance Of Hyper Velocity Projectile For Zumwalt Destroyer’s Dormant Guns
A version of the Zumwalt’s beleaguered Advanced Gun System shot down a cruise missile with a Hyper Velocity Projectile during a major land-based test.
MQ-9 Reaper, Howitzer, Rocket Toting F-16 All Shoot Down Mock Cruise Missiles In Huge Test
The Air Force demonstrated the non-traditional forms of cruise missile defense while testing its new super command and control network.
Navy’s Railgun Now Undergoing Tests In New Mexico, Could Deploy On Ship In Northwest
The U.S. Navy has quietly moved its experimental electromagnetic railgun to the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and has been conducting new live-fire tests of the potentially game-changing weapon. This comes amid reports that the service could be finally getting close to mounting this railgun, or a derivative thereof, on a ship for at-sea testing in the Pacific Northwest.
U.S. Navy Destroyer Fired Off Advanced Hyper Velocity Projectiles During 2018 Exercise
The new rounds dramatically expand the ability of the guns on these ships and other platforms to engage surface targets and air and missile threats.