United States Navy Railgun Is No More!
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Remember the futuristic railgun from transformers: revenge of the fallen, which U.S. navy used to bring down the devastator from the pyramid? It's no more with us, may be, or might be! The United States Navy spent more than 10 years, and some $500 million developing the electromagnetic railgun, and once considered putting them on the new Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers. But the Pentagon is turning its attention to hypersonic missiles, and the Navy cut funding for railgun research from its budget proposal last year of July. But nobody knows what's going on behind the closed doors, or may be it's just a step to deceive the world, and strengthen the secrecy of project. Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder, or rockets or jet engines, to accelerate a projectile at Mach 6 or even Mach 7, that creates enough kinetic energy to destroy targets. But one of the problems is railgun's limited range of just 110 miles, it means you have to put the warship in range of enemy missiles, also a conventional gun needs refurbishing after some 600 rounds, while a railgun needs it just after firing 2 dozen rounds. The concept of railgun may sound futuristic, but it dates back to 1940s! May be the railgun is not available right now, but who knows. But it would be available some day, some year, this century.
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Ace combat fans are everywhere, everywhere! 😀
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@@upeo12 Yes.
Don't worry this guy gets his sources from the wiki and spreads disinformation
@@belluh-1huey102 Get out hater
While the US Navy dropped the railgun project, the US Army on the other hand, decided to continue the project that the navy left. Japan’s MOD also shared its desires on continuing the project by coordinating where the US navy left off.
Railgun projects will still continue, although it isn’t the USN that’ll finish it.
The Navy got what it wanted out the project which became the technology used in the new carriers to launch aircraft.
But the Army is the place for future land based weapon systems. If the tech gets lighter and more energy efficient in the future, the Navy or Marines can always jump back in
I hope soldiers have EMP guns to zap drones and vehicles and either disable the vehicle or destroy the drone
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes: kinda want one for our street; would cut down on speeders...
@@scottjimenez653 yes
@@jeremytaylor3532 it wasn't the weight or energy that killed it but rather the gun tearing it self apart
I can't believe they destroyed the pyramids in Egypt for this movie
They were old anyway
@@tobiwallner5483 they were scared
@@tobiwallner5483 almost just like your mother's old snatch 😂😂😂
Like dude why, WHY DESTROY THE DAMN PYRAMIDS
@@mygrandpahasdiabetes To wake up the pharaohs
Who knows the stealth can send the hypersonic freedom projectile
Hypersonic freedom projectile might be not available right now, but they're fitting Zumwalts with hypersonic freedom missiles!
Freedoooooom!!!
@@Wuuujihh ultrasonic missile
Does anyone have any idea how fast hypersonic is?!!!
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes like 3500mph+
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes or like one mile a second
Hypersonic missiles are not a direct replacement for railguns.
In the US, railguns were being developed at the same time as laser weapons. To this point, laser weapons are proving to be a clearly superior option.
Unless some unexpected breakthroughs are made in railgun tech, lasers are the better option.
They're working on high power lasers now. Several working lasers are now being tested, and are incredibly accurate. Coolest of all, there is NO ammunition!
They don't work when it's raining or foggy.
@@tylerferguson3707 and high humidity conditions the laser will loose accuracy due to refraction.
Railgun with the US space force, slap em on shuttles
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The world will need it for any meteorite
Haha, nice idea buddy, and I think 110 miles of range is enough to destroy meteorites.
If you want meteorite shrapnel
Is this some form of Ace Combat meme?
Is this Ace combat reference or the Expanse reference
no, it requires a lot of power and i mean a lot to fire and it basically tears itself apart after 1 round not 2000
He said 2 dozen not 2 thousand
@@WaffIe-House which equals 24...he clearly didn't know
Yeah thats kinda the reason why it isn't in service yet but new material tech it could get to the point where the (now copper) rails hold out long enough , energy storage and production is also a field of science that is fastly developing and the potential behind a rail gun will bring back such projects every decade and same day it will be a success well it is cheaper in service than any other ordnance but its high inertial cost will hemper the development of such systems quite a bit
Well is not a gun for the trigger happy uncle sam
@@TheLtVoss You know what is cheap? Full stops.
Railguns do exsit, but they destroy themselves when the fire from the sheer amount of power
The gun destroys itself. The rounds are over $200,000 each. They need more energy than you would think. It was cool but the money can do useful things instead.
yeah like like retirement funds of 100,000 u.s officers who are currently getting fat paychecks for nothing
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"Its not practical... yet."
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“Contact destroyer, USS Kid"
A rail gun would be far more effective and less costly in the long run if it can be perfected.
It's ammunition is cheap, basically just a hunk of metal and it's powered by electricity which is in ample supply on a nuclear powered ship.
It's also extremely powerful and fast, impossible to track or knock out unlike a missile.
It actually would cost about the same as missiles to operate since there is SOOOOOOO much matinence with railguns. Plus, since they are so fragile and break so often a ship equipped with them would soon be out of fight in any large naval war just due to equipment malfuntion.
@@tylerferguson3707 Andddddddd what did I say?
If the tech was perfected better...
Hundreds of millions for hypersonic missles that aren't even hitting anything seems a huger waste of resources.
Palestine can do more for cheaper.
they could've easily said they cut the budget for futuristic weapons in favour of weaponize toaster
and still develop the weapon
Think simple, if railgun take the lead, gunpowder company will goes down
I like when the gun spit out the shell. Ha ha
It won't be enough to take down three strikes
You need to put your soul into it.
No one can defeat our squadron leader
The biggest problem with railguns is that only Nimitz, Ford, and Zumwalt boats would theoreticly have the capacity to even power such a weapon.
If the navy does perfect the railgun it will need a new destroyer as that's a failure as well
Actually the Zumwalt was a littoral combat ship not a destroyer. The Arleigh Burke is a destroyer the DDG (x) next gen destroyer will be 2028 at the earliest
I live near Dahlgren. I can still hear (and feel) them firing it occasionally. Hopefully they’ll work through the heat dissipation issue.
Rail guns are great in science fiction movies but in reality they are not a practical weapon, at least not yet.
Yes, at least not yet! But as I mentioned at the end, they will be available, someday, some year this century.
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The problems are that firing multiple times ruins the gun. You would want it to fire multiple times
Cannons weren't really practical either when they were first invented,
The navy has been working longer than than. One physics professor I had in college in the late 70s at NC State was working on it then. I'm sure others were too. Coming up with an alloy that would work for the projectile was the problem then
The thing shown in transformers is an plasma launcher, a rail gun is different as it shoots conventional rounds very fast.
We railguns in space to shoot tungsten rods at astroids
Railguns have a barrel lifetime of 3 shots
If we're being honest, the railgun's purpose wasn't sea to ground but for anything that's near it
"GUNNER ERASE THAT HILL!"
There’s another reason for why they stopped, funding it and it’s the fact that the rail gun kept on turning the insights into molten plasma
our tech isn't quite caught up for railguns...still needs a lot of research
It's already in Sci fi stories and works great.
That's why they're trying to bring it to real world!
Sci-fi is fiction not real life.
@@tylerferguson3707 I happen to know that! What I said is true. The rail gun I mentioned is in The Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson.
You could easily carry 10-12 barrels on board and it would be more than worth it, they just weren't able to bring the cost down by their deadline, it will be revisited once the component technology evolves through the private sector.
The USN just got caught with their trousers down when Russia and China started field testing their hypersonic missiles, and decided to switch priorities.
the point of the rail gun was to increase the range of cannons without having to use missiles but they decided missiles will be better
The US Military was more concerned with impressing the press which means using the powder load and casing with the railgun, but if you don't use the powder load or casing, it extends the life of the railgun, it's range, and time between servicing it and although hypersonic missiles will most likely be necessary, the railgun would have been the perfect weapon for the Zumwalt class, a lot cheaper too
They can't build a rail gun but they can build hypersonic missiles hmm....
itd be nice if they also research coilguns, they cant achieve the save velocity as a railgun, but dont destroy themselves and can fling heavier projectiles
Railgun? Reminds me of the failed zumwalt destroyer.
yeah noticed that regular weaponry definitely use jet engines to blow up stuff...
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And some of these are actually pretty good.especially the first one.
I heard it destroys itself after shooting just ONE round.
Two dozen rounds and the barrel is shot from what I have read.
I think a hybrid electromagnetic launched self propelled projectile would be more practical to solve the range, economic & warhead payload problem. Optimizing this launching system would be ground breaking.
Rail gun is so advanced, it will be used in space.
Our battleship guns needed to be relined after 150-300 so 600 is a good get
About damned time. It is completely impractical. The only thing dumber is anti-missile lasers.
US Navy: cancels railgun program.
US Space Force: Surprise, Orbital Railgun Defense Platforms named after Viking gods!
Turkey just deployed its first railgun on a warship
The rail gun in Mech Warrior was OP for those that are accurate.
Theres NO WAY the goverment stopped working on this. Its too awesome & powerful not to use.
Railguns are better with smaller and lighter projectiles going ludicriously fast. They're not too great with the shell sizes needed for naval gunnery. However, coilguns happen to excel with larger projectiles going at a more normal pace (still fast asf because we're talking about cannons here.)
Ofc that's all just according to the math and theory on these things - not a lot of practical data. The only weapons of these types tested currently are coilgun rifles with small 7mm projectiles (which you can buy for 2.5k USD from Arcflash online) and railgun cannons with big honking cannon shells. Maybe if we flip the script and use railguns for small arms and coilguns for artillery peices we'd actually get somewhere.
Rail guns are being redesigned for a much longer range and power
well this did not age well as Japan successfully tests their railgun at sea
The movie takes place in 2009, the navy casually has a railgun attached to a destroyer or crusier off the coast of Egypt... what were the writers smoking?
This is interesting, ironic and confusing because I was always reading and researched about rail guns ,that they shot really far and went farther than regular cannons but I do agree on the need for research in to hypersonic weapons.
They do but not as far as a missile.
Another big problem is energy output. To get a railgun working, it requires more than twice the electricity output of what can be produced on the ship.
You can meet the energy demands with nucular powered ships but that will dramatically increase the price.
The Blackbird was plane that could reach speed of over mach 3 easily for hours and hours to end. It was created on 1966 and was only declassified on 1982. Think of what we have now that isn't declassified, that being said, I always like to think that, if we have a current technology open to the public, you can bet your ass out it is WAY more advanced than what we see
Prototype weapon never battle on fields LOL
Aren’t coilguns better? Hacksmith did a video on them and explained the limitations of the rail gun and mentioned the coil gun doesn’t have those limitations. Why don’t they use those?
Railguns would be far cheaper if they got all the kinks worked out
I hope we do because we're going to need those rail guns incase the covenant comes nocking😆
Maybe all the research and the projects weren't for earth-based weapons but for space-based weapons
Is no more because it has stealth tech and is in DARPA now
Remember the modular battleship project?
The real problem is funding management
Rail Guns will be Awesome when Fully Developed and With A better Range to keep them far enough away to give Us a bit more time to have Faster Smaller Ones which could target incoming Enemy Missiles !! !
One of the reasons the rail gun was dropped was it cost about $1,000,000/shot. Training gets ridiculously expensive. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
Turned into a catapult launch system
Yeah but I solved the barrel problem, so the only issue left is the range
The guns on ships arnt designed to shoot far they are made to defend from vessels in close range
Laser rail gun will be next thing to be put on all ships no more shells and powder
If one wanted to launch hypersonic missiles with a light fuel load. This could be done with a rail gun. Even the new launch rails on the new aircraft carriers.
One might consider it the first stage of a rocket. Also the launch would be almost horizontal. And the missle could travel at subsonic speed at just above water surface
Even using ram air technology to save more fuel. These could travel up rivers to most industrial city targets. Only going hypersonic once they reach radar detection range.
By having minimal fuel on board there would be room for multiple warheads in a very small package.
These cluster flucks would really bring a nation to it's knees quickly.
You don’t understand anything it seems. None of what you said is good idea. A missile in a rail gun would destroy the missile. Slugs of metal are used. Hypersonic missiles go hyper sonic via gravity.
@@MegaJuniorJones Current hypersonic missles work like a Rollercoaster the fuel takes it up high and gravity brings it down. This is a ballistic trajectory. I am talking about a different type of weapon. A stealthy cruise that conserves fuel till the end of the run for a final sprint to target.
Of course this is not the way current designs work. But it could be the way future designs work. Just because it does not exist does not mean that it cannot.
Every new weapon is unimaginable until someone imagines it.
@@MegaJuniorJones The Chinese are already developing an amphibious version of this. It travels underwater until it reaches sonar range of a carrier group. Then pops out of the water and skims above the surface reaching supersonic speeds to hit targets in the carrier group. These can lie in wait on the ocean floor for months waiting for an opportunity to pass nearby.
This exploits a weakness in the American carriers defense systems. As subsurface, surface, and Air systems are not integrated and each function separately. Thus this missle jumps from one system to the next delaying response time.
Why Railgun when you can have fully stealth capable hypersonic missile that can cruise around 5000km at low altitude undetected and nearly invisible to Pilots eye
I think they're moving the funding to lasers
They may not be working on rail gun per se but they would be working on the power supply imo.
Make the ships be nuclear. Carriers and submarines already are but doing the same for destroyers makes sense
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes do you know how much space a nuke reactor for navy ships need? Considering the size of current destroyers, they don't even have enough space for all the technology they even implement nowadays. Navy even have to downsize a handful of implementations just to make them fit. You might say, just make the ships bigger then, making it bigger would make it a battleship size not a destroyer. Aside from that, bigger size bigger target. Seen what happened to all those battleship back in ww2.
@@SideComment24 Yes, big battleships got ganged up on by both smaller vessels and hit from the air. I’m pretty sure that ships in today’s world have carrier and air support.
@@AdrianFahrenheitTepes yeah. And destroyers job is to protect the big ships like the carriers, not to become one (big ship) just to fit a nuke reactor in them. Noble idea you had don't get me wrong but unless the technology for small enough reactors with enough power to supply and to fit a destroyer exist, it would still remain a noble idea.
They could still use it for the 110 miles and less for close range combat and since they figured how to make it wouldn’t it be cheaper to make one then the prototype?
They should experiment by using them instead of paintball guns???😊😮😂😢
I would really like to see battleships again
Same, but they’re I guess too slow and big of targets. I don’t think there has been a navy going to to toe with their surface ships since WW2. Battleships are just… absolute.
Well the Missouri is in Hawaii! Would make a hell of a road trip! 😁
So where are those hypersonic missiles? All we got is Dark Eagle which is supersonic, not to be confused with hypersonic!
Land based a far better option for now, BUT one day it'll be practical for naval warships. This is too promising to just abandon and walk away from!
Why not use modular/disposable rails? I mean the rails can be ejected after 10 shots to be repaired. Still cost efficient.
The only weapon system capable of reliably taking out hypersonic missiles are lasers or rail guns. I’m sure DARPA and defense contractors are still working hard on development
The best way to defeat hypersonic missles is to target the satellites and ground radar it needs to hit the target. It is unlikely that either side in a war would be able to use them after a few weeks because all of the targeting systems will be destroyed.
The range argument is wrong. The railgun is capable of over the horizon shots. The issue is cross sectional detection to avoid being engaged by missles. Reason the development of ddg1k occurred. Currently, railgun is experiencing the "not enough break throughs in materials." Current materials are not capable of withstanding heat generated. Leaving the weapon system with a very low active service life.
Itd be way more effective to spend that money on lasers and other directed energy weapons
Rail guns should still be on the ships as a close range
Ships don't really use close range weapons anymore. One ship or the other is dead long long long before you would ever be able to use them.
One shot from this blows threw many thicknesses and pierces many targets. This is going to be good in space also. Just use the Innovation on the bunker busters we're it twists into it and locks into something. Detonation type or none.
What's going on behind close doors?
It's simple: China have already spent the double on that technology and they are close to obtain a mass producing model.
Americans consider it a waste of time.
But probably the Americans have already obtained all the data they need to produce a functional gun, except they don't consider it necessary.
Ah first country who make ray gun is Phillipines before America
Reality is often a factor ignored, when planning on development of new weapons.
They could have developed a rail gun with a range similar to current 5" or 76mm guns and had a useful gun, that would have not required a huge unaffordable power source that does not fit on ships. The lower power rail gun would also not destroy itself. So, another missed opportunity occurred. Nothing new or unusual about that.
To be fair we don't kmow what secret projects they have, there could be an alternative
One shot could depower the whole ship, need its own power plant, inaccurate but powerful AF
We need an advancement in mettalurgy or ceramics
If we need that kind of weapon it would be perfect to be used by tanks than ships since ships dont need direct contact to hit things.
Lol no wtf
tanks dont have enough power to charge and fire a railgun
500 billion? Idk about that. 500 million maybe. If it’s 500 billion for a failed project like this some heads need to roll and bank taxes audited.
Ah yes, just like what happened in the cold war, they tried to forget the Gun because of the invention of missiles... I bet you theyll restore railguns when it becomes cheaper than hypersonic missiled
I believe rail gun is more effective and cheaper compared to missiles. Rail gun is powered by electricity which isn't a problem for a nuclear powered ship, which the US has tons of.
We literally have only 11 ships that can meet the power requirements commissioned currently. The cost of the required nuclear reactor and never ending matinence would make them more expensive than missles in the end and WAY WAY less reliable.
just so you know the maximum potential of a rail gun is it's operational distance is not 100 miles. 2 to the projectiles insanely high speed if the sign for it a rail gun could be inter continental artillery. imagine firing a cannon in New York that land somewhere in Moscow 7 seconds later
Can colloid be experimented to be used as shock absorber?
China just built a ship mounted railgun
the rail gun just being expensive asf and require much electricity, also the repair cost after even more expensive than the cost to make the ship
Isn't it that Railguns have many demerits like that Of unable to keep on Firing like other Weapons as Artillery guns do be One among many.
The rail gun practically destroys itself after a single shot. It’s unreliable at its current stage. The technology for that kind of weapon isn’t here yet.
Probably going with high density lasers.