getting it on the right vehicles, making it the right size, providing the right kind of capabilities for the different types of missions that you would want a
railgun [to perform] as part of the Army's capability suite," he said.
A US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entitled Navy Lasers,
Railgun, and Hypervelocity Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress published in 2016 and written by Ronald O'Rourke, a specialist in naval affairs, stated that: "Unfavourable cost exchange ratios refer to the fact that a SAM used to shoot down a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or anti-ship missile can cost the navy more (perhaps much more) to procure than it cost the adversary to build or acquire the UAV or anti-ship missile." The US defence budget for the year 2016 includes procurement costs for SAMs ranging from $900000 to several million dollars per missile, according to the report.
Kratos DRSS is a provider of air defense and other weapon and combat system related products, solutions and services, ballistic missile target systems, hypersonic system products and supports the electromagnetic
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Caption: Electromagnetic
Railgun launches projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants for use aboard ships, June 21, 2012 (U.S.
While I will address these areas in greater detail later in this posture statement, investments that are most relevant to deterring Russia include new unmanned systems, enhanced ground-based air and missile defenses, new long-range anti-ship weapons, the long-range strike bomber, and also innovation in technologies like the electromagnetic
railgun, lasers, and new systems for electronic warfare, space, and cyberspace.
The electromagnetic
railgun will finally be onboard a U.S.
Eight, a
railgun which is a linear motor for electromagnetic launch of a projectile.
According to FNA dispatches, the home-made advanced gun (
Railgun) enjoys a capability to fire thirty 8mm steel bullets per minute at targets.
The two guns include the free electron laser, essentially a super-powered death ray, and the
railgun, which shoots bullets powered not by explosions, but by energy, Fox News reports.
Our current INPs are the electronic
railgun, persistent littoral undersea surveillance, enhanced capability for joint sea basing and ship-to-objective maneuver, and improving naval tactical use of space.