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China Wants a Real Naval Railgun. The U.S. Navy Should Be Worried.
Could Beijing pull it off?
Last month the United States Navy scaled back its efforts to develop and electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), a weapon that wouldn t be out of place in a futuristic science fiction movie or video game. To date the U.S. Navy has spent some $500 in RYD efforts. The Navy s EMRG project was first conceived in 2003.
Across the Pacific, Chinese efforts to develop a ship-mounted EMRG is still moving forward, and last year it was reported that such a weapon could be capable of striking a target 124 miles away of speeds of up to 1.6 miles per second.