US Testing Its Monstrously Powerful $500 Million Rail Gun

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[@thumper9633]

This is what they show you, imagine what they don't.

[@ethanpaulus5364]

Right

[@ronreagan3969]

Time travel.

[@soul_Link12]

If theyre showing us, its at least 15 years old.

[@hrzn202]

Wasnt the whole Railgun project abandoned by US a few years ago?

[@timp1154]

@@hrzn202 yeah i heard something like that too, something with it needing too much power

[@EdTheDragonSlayer]

It's appreciative to think that man still mostly resort to throwing rocks at each other, but just faster.

[@johnsonspark171]

America is going to need to find more brown people to use this against.

[@meethindocha1824]

White phosphorus was banned 😭

[@johnfigueiredo9154]

Throwing is relative

[@ATBZ]

@@meethindocha1824 me every time after im reminded of the white phosphorus ban 😭😭😭

[@noahway13]

@@ATBZ It's odd, in a way, that things are banned from war, the very act of killing as many of the enemy as possible. I mean, I get it... it's just a gentleman's agreement, in a way. And another thing, for the most part, the only people that get charged in committing war crimes are the losers.

[@cendimix.4132]

war can really be summed up as "who can throw the biggest rock", we went from rocks to spears, to arrows, to guns, to artillery.

[@Deontjie]

I wonder how many US secrets did Biden sell to China.

[@HumanScourgeYT]

Ending with thermonuclear munitions

[@fredcarr3550]

That's not likely to change.

[@karcistthurgy3025]

You forgot Light lol

[@vasiliynkudryavtsev]

It's not about weapons it is about how much stupid the users of these weapons could be. The media says Putin is evil, but Putin is a sane man at least. On the contrary, the president Biden is a deranged person. Who can predict if this psycho could launch nuclear strike? He had blown up the Nord stream pipelines already. If he has done unthinkable once, why could he not do that again?

[@sodiumfluoridel]

The fact that these projectiles are moving fast enough to create explosions on impact despite not having a single ounce of explosives is absolutely mind baffling for the people in the comments : i agree this is a terrible waste of money considering the other things it could go to. However, the physics involved are no less awesome and beautiful

[@Tr.Vatansever]

Nesi olağan üstü top mermisi atıyor duvar delme özelliği var tamam peki menzili ne hangi yönü ile özel

[@ohigh6]

the fact that we spend half a billion fictional dollars on a weapon is mind boggling.

[@SirPeekALot_]

APFSDS tank rounds do the same.

[@aaplies8879]

And since there are no conventional explosives in the railgun, any fireballs you see are a direct result of the muzzle and projectile literally destroying themselves because it's being fired so fast.

[@lasaetadelnorte2407]

Energy

[@BeachriderUSA]

This gun didn’t cost that much. The multi year projects, with several testing platforms, did.

[@sannikovbobik]

Logistics? Not so much.

[@subtleblow]

It's an all inclusive package/contract. A monetary amount and problem are waved in front of select arms companies, they bid and/or create prototypes, problems/expectations get worked out and then a company is given an unrealistic time frame to make something that will undoubtedly be obsolete by the time it can be installed/used.

[@tomalexander6695]

How would you know

[@BeachriderUSA]

@@tomalexander6695 it is on the government ledger as a multi year project with research phases and multiple demonstrations. This is the first full size demo. The $500 Mn is covering the whole project

[@thehopeforunderstanding9263]

and as says I sure as hell understand the world post office switzerland to rolling stones symphony for the devil . Is lake superior says always was England's strawberry strawman legal copy of you flag antcient egyptian. 13 stripes was 13 stars no paper money promisory note binding contract legal debt intrust owed on bill if two . queens age done she just doesn't know it yet . switzerland post office to doomed roofs milking many times over . blessed be the breast doesn't give milk womb doesn't give berth certificate capital letters property on slave ship 12 mayflowers cash cows milking many . game over soon I the superman Michael my God given name I stand soon. for one nation under God indivisible by 4 with each I stand for liberty and justice for all known to the father in the golden known true and just age of ages the ends meet beginnings of no ends in endless age of Aquarius

[@Dziricani]

Most impressive to me is how that high-speed camera tracked perfectly and horizontally a projectile travelling at 8270 f/s (that's a whopping 5638.6 mph or 9074.5 km/h!)

[@RiskyVentureMinerals]

Mirrors are wonderful things!

[@catparka7698]

@@RiskyVentureMinerals I've only seen ugly things in mine.

[@sayamqazi]

@@catparka7698 I sighed at your comment :/

[@laurencesmith2199]

At 100 miles range it'll be there before it's fired .

[@jenwright2577]

The camera uses a mirror to track the projectile while the camera stays still

[@isoid]

the fact that the 1/8th power railgun was still violent enough to literally vaporize the interior of the barrel is incredible

[@thisguy5017]

Never thought I'd see a man loading a railgun by hand while wearing a wristwatch.

[@christimko9296]

I live 10 miles down river from this place…. Been testing for over 25 years…. My house rattles twice when it’s fired… first report comes from projectile breaking sound barrier near my house.. 2 nd report comes seconds later from sound of rail gun firing….

[@CRD-hi6vk]

Very interesting... Thanks for sharing!!!

[@OneaeBlack]

So much for public concern and safety.

[@WildchildProductionsTN]

I thought I remembered hearing about these in the 90s. My brother and I used to play a video game that had these as an option and my brother told me the military was working on getting them. It had to be 1997 or so.

[@garrypennington9576]

Quake?

[@SinCityRaider81]

Wicked

[@ThatsMrPencilneck2U]

Rail guns would be excellent weapons for modern warships with massive power plants, except for the fact their rails burn up faster than a sailor can find a red light district.

[@dudeybagz]

Damn that’s quick. 😂

[@cmdrgarbage1895]

The age of the battleship is coming back

[@talandar5773]

CMDR Garbage Battleships A weapon system like this would be used on a cruiser to complement missile systems. A battleship wouldn't be versatile enough to suit the Navy's needs and would be obsolete by the time it came out because current missile technology makes armor mostly ineffective. I don't see them mounting more than 1 or 2 of these on a ship because they are so high maintenance, a battery would be completely impractical.

[@ThatsMrPencilneck2U]

@@talandar5773 I didn't think the comment about battleships coming back was worth responding to.

[@gamingwithanoob]

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[@cpcompany3319]

BAE Systems are an English company, everything they design is world class and beyond belief. Clever people those English guys !

[@ChuppyProduction]

you know ... Tht Canon was invested by the Nazis Adolph Hitler is the name

[@MatthewWasTaken]

My brother works for them and he's programming ██ ███ ███ Mk.1 Prototype

[@pododododoehoh3550]

@Matthew Hucky Useful comment

[@jasonrodgers9063]

Interesting. "Throw a chunk of metal at it, REALLY FAST!" Hey, truly cool. Hope progress continues!

[@ghand6158]

I remember reading about CiWS when it was being tested back in the 80's. Placed on a barge, a destroyer fired a 5" shell along the length of the barge. CiWS engaged the shell, then it's fragments

[@douglasfrazier2856]

How rapidly do these projectiles decelerate after leaving the muzzle? What is their effective range, and does the damage done decrease the farther away the target is?

[@Dobermanator]

A good amount of the weaponry here goes back a few Wars though I'm not certain how complete or accurate this is. Like with the Phalanx, is that not the last line of defence, is there not other missiles used to take out an incoming missile?

[@Folsomdsf2]

The phalanx is indeed the last line, There are several other connected systems something has to get to BEFORE it reaches the phalanx. Many of hte devices are networked and connected as well between ships providing a large net of coverage for tracking.

[@Tew730]

i wonder where the other countries got their technology and hardware ?thats a real mystery

[@gamingwithanoob]

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[@kbanghart]

@@Tew730 Trump probably gave it to them

[@AJuchum]

@@kbanghart if they’re an ally, maybe. If china then that’s Biden, he owes them.

[@Dr_Mario2007]

The sonic boom of the projectile at 0:55 is insanely tight, it's stupid fast. Anything that moves faster than five times the speed of sound (basically at hypersonic speed) is devastating enough to basically render the usual explosives irrelevant at that speed.

[@MistaGSpecialEducation]

Imagine if that thing had explosive fillers

[@Mr_Wiley]

100 mile snipes- but can it 360 first *teabags*

[@TxMONEY28]

I’m curious though you can tell the projectile eventually breaks down by that last sheet of metal, I wonder how the projectile does against everyone of those big sheets put together too make just one piece of armor !?

[@Nothing-zw3yd]

If this is what they're presenting, what they really have now is far more advanced. I remember reading an article in Popular Mechanics in the 80's about rail guns, and it was much the same then as they're showing now. There is no way it hasn't advanced far beyond that.

[@carlosferreira5114]

Actually, this project has been already canceled due to high costs.

[@Flomdcho]

Never underestimate how far we’ve fallen since then… or the greed of military industrial contractors

[@mnemonicpie]

@@Swagmessiah8394 it isn't that impressive, Yuri can do it too.

[@mnemonicpie]

@@Swagmessiah8394 how is this relevant to my comment, schizo?

[@BraveFencer]

@@carlosferreira5114what if it still going under a black budget?

[@johnjacobjinglehimerschmid3555]

An update from some years ago said that there were problems with barrel wear. I wonder if they've mastered that issue.

[@TheBigExclusive]

The video is outdated. The program was cancelled. They couldn't solve the barrel problem. The barrel would be worn out and useless after a few shots. And it used too much electrical power.

[@K3Flyguy]

Maybe they could put a windmill on it to make extra power and then add a solar panel to the windmill blades. Lolol I'm surprised AOC didn't come up with it.

[@eduparada970]

@@K3Flyguy Windmills and solar energy are nothing, prob if they somehow managed to place a nuclear reactor on it but that would be very very expensive

[@davejones9469]

My dad was one of his ship's "underwater weapon specialists". The fancy way of saying he loaded and launched torpedoes. They were testing a new design, and it went about halfway to the target and it did a U turn and came back and booped the ship lol. It wasn't loaded, literally just a new shape of some part they were testing the validity of...needless to say, it failed horribly. My dad said he fired it, was sitting there waiting to hear from up above, but instead just heard this loud BWOM noise off the hull.

[@abundantharmony]

A bit unnerving eh? That's a huge oops.

[@davejones9469]

@@abundantharmony Actually, my dad says they pretty much knew what happened, and had a good laugh about it. Everyone was well aware they weren't armed, just given equivalent ballast weight. No risk of even puncturing the hull, maybe a dent, but nothing major. My dad said the Canadian navy was super chill back in the day. They'd pull alongside an American battleship on their tiny little frigate, and people with the day off would often sunbathe on the deck, drinking beer, eating candy and chocolate, and playing cards etc. The Americans weren't allowed any booze, excess creature comforts, etc. so despite having better ships, they still looked jealous lol. Everyone also had a daily lunch ration of rum, only a big shot worth (1 1/2 oz)...but when it was someone's birthday, they'd pass a pot from the kitchen around and everyone would donate half their shot to the "bucket", which then went to the birthday boy lol. It was an unofficial day off every time. We're also talking specialty navy rum here, it was 45-50% lmao.

[@abundantharmony]

@@davejones9469 Did it at least dent the ship?

[@stuartmacdonald9289]

It got scared and ran home to mummy. 🤣🤣🤣

[@davejones9469]

@@abundantharmony Nope. Barely scratched the paint lol.

[@lighttrain5520]

I had no idea we were fielding live energy weapons yet, that is truly fascinating

[@mateofamate1387]

I knew cannons on ships would come back in style some day

[@chronus4421]

The US Navy declined to continue funding this project, they gave it 10million in 2022 which is barely 'station keeping' level of funding.

[@Rooboy-619]

The railgun is too powerful for any over the horizon targeting. The projectile will travel 100 miles but it will be in space at that point. Missles are strategically more superior for this purpose. Just because the Navy dropped it doesn’t mean it has been completely abandoned. Railguns are more lethal if used from space.

[@utpharmboy2006]

yep! planetary based rail guns have been officially mothballed...but in outer space its on the down low....just need to be fired from an object with A LOT of mass or it will quickly push itself out of orbit lol

[@utpharmboy2006]

not to mention a nuclear reactor for power, but that could double as the large mass....dont think solar panels and batteries will cut it lol

[@williammarrara7490]

That was enough to paint rainbows 🌈 on them.

[@noname-codm4590]

Imagine a depleted uranium core on this lol. Tho it isn’t very likely to happen.

[@RobertJosefs]

I served in the Navy in the '90s, so I get it. But imagine if our government leaders could hash things out verbally and through negotiation. The amount of money and lives we'd save would be more impressive than these new weapons. Our lives would improve too

[@CGrahamWorks]

It has application for space use and exploration, also for dealing with 0G or low G launch application

[@RobertJosefs]

@Escape from Babylon correct 👌

[@ianmangham4570]

So true, the world's run by self enriching narcissistic types, there's never a bold statement or idea like "No more homeless and hungry" ,it's all about war profiteering.

[@terjehansen0101]

That would only mean that whatever a dictator wants to do do, he can without reprocussion. He can commit many atrocities for as long as he wants and then, we he is tired, he gets total immunity from the world leaders who just want an "end to the fighting".

[@RobertJosefs]

@@terjehansen0101 that's an interesting take. Are you defining negotiation as bribes?

[@ultimAvalon]

thank you for making a video about railgun just to show us everything else that was upgraded instead of the railgun....

[@catkeys6911]

I always prefer miles per hour because it's more relatable. That "bullet" at the beginning of the video goes 5,638.6363...MPH.

[@CaptainNero]

Unfortunately I don't think that the desired rate of fire was achieved. And also the Barrel material degraded too quickly so they needed another solution which they haven't come up with yet. until then awesome gun I'd love to see it in service maybe coastal defense would be great for it.

[@aarontaylor9413]

One solution being used to achieve similar results, is in the round itself. They are using new rounds that can be used in existing barrels...

[@aarontaylor9413]

That travel at the same speeds..

[@casualcampaigns]

@@aarontaylor9413 What are you trying to say?

[@fumbducks]

@@casualcampaigns I think he was trying to say that using a different kind of projectile might be a solution to some of the problems pointed out by OP

[@dcsaustin2]

@@fumbducks Close what he meant is the following. Railguns launch a projectile at crazy speeds. When getting to speeds above Mach 3 air pretty much acts like a semi solid. And the faster you go the crazier the physics becomes. SO conventional ammunition would be useless so they had to specially design ammunition for the gun. It was later found out that his special ammunition carried over some of its unique properties when fired out of conventional barrels that use chemical charges to launch said projectile. So what may end up happening is using this ammunition with conventional firing methods and still achieve partially what they were aiming for with the railgun.

[@quangtrungbui675]

maybe one day not so far we will be able to see Starcraft's siege tanks come into reality. According to the lore, it also uses a electro-magnetic accelerating mechanism like what we are testing now to fire heavy rounds with superheated tungsten.

[@Brett-yq7pj]

The earth's magnetic field too weak to utilize

[@92justinayube]

Building a safe environment is more important, as well as instruments Natural disasters are real and people do not truly understand the mineral deposits underground including natural gas development that can cause explosions, there are also more potential hazards. People usually wait for accidents to happen allegedly before they make changes When construction sites excavate minerals under the ground they find massive rocks etc that they may not even understand existed.

[@drummerdoingstuff5020]

I love how they all sounded exactly the same 😂

[@RichardsWorld]

@8:00 Hey!! I used to be on that ship USS John C Stennis.

[@jwoodrff]

I first heard about this as rumored to be a University of Texas defense research contract in the early 1970's.

[@cleverusername9369]

If you've never heard a Phalanx CIWS in action, videos do not do it justice, those things are ludicrously intense

[@navyvet7138]

yes they are. Witness them many times while I was in the navy

[@zparkyy1800]

Gun go brrrrrt

[@crashtestdummy87]

@Trev i think you could see it in action if you get your pilots license, hire a plane and go in a steep dive towards a ship with a phalanx

[@Redslayer86]

@@crashtestdummy87 Who needs a pilots license for that. Just borrow a plane that's already been started and use your flight sim skills.

[@ethanr2202]

I need one of these mounted on top of my house, the mosquitoes get really bad around here lol.

[@GhostVvar]

Honestly I hope they continue research and development on the railgun. IMO you can always counter a smart weapon system with a smarter countermeasure, but you can't outsmart a solid slug of metal traveling at supersonic speeds. Missiles can be countered with early detection and lasers or another projectile to disarm or pre-detonate. Lasers can be countered with weather or distance. Drones can be simply shot down or EMPs. Whats gonna stop a metal slug from flying at you other than adding more armor?

[@MultiCommissar]

Can't outsmart Bullet.

[@danmartin9086]

This is true. Isn't a laser superior though. Similarly, once it's fired you cannot stop the light hitting the target

[@GhostVvar]

@@danmartin9086 Even the highest powered lasers can be refracted/reflected or scattered.

[@patrickday4206]

Any type of flare using larger metal pieces would cause the round to become thermite

[@chumleechumbucket6625]

very big magnet

[@hannesaltenfelder4302]

I wonder what would happen if a lonely diver would attach a charge under the ship? Would he be seen by underwater cameras? Or is there another way to detect him?

[@williamlloyd3769]

Have always had an interest in these weapons ever since reading military science fiction books by author Keith Laumer. The Bolo seemed to include every weapon known to man plus an AI core!

[@markbrisec3972]

I really don't understand the point of this video since the US Navy has shelved the railgun development and cancelled the program for the forseeable future. Obviously there were insurmountable obstacles that the engineers weren't able to resolve to put the railgun into service. The program is dead, canceled, finito, done, history.. Mind you US Navy was working on it since the 2005. This technology will simply have to wait for the materials science&technology to improve enough to restart the program.. This insurmountable problem was the wear and tear of the rails over which the projectile carrying sled slided. They were shattered after 2-3 shots. And the level of current metalurgy could not resolve this problem...

[@teambrosbs5297]

@@markbrisec3972 lol you got a source? You should know by now something as advanced as this never just gets alt f4 deleted and all paper work shredded. Dont be so naive bro. What I read into it since the amount of power needed to use the rail gun it's best viable option is to have it mounted onto like a space station type structure. At its core would be multiple nuclear reactors that can steadily produce energy and structure could have a bunch of solar wings that take energy from the sun 24/7 and can also absorb solar flares anytime those happens and convert it to energy that's stored in 100s large transformers. So in theory this rail gun can launch these destructive objects at such speeds that it busts right thru the atmosphere not slowing down but actually gaining speed from gravity. It could literally have so much power to 1 shot large aircraft carriers and split them in half or destroy city's and could target any where on the planet since it's in space.

[@LeashMechanic]

2022 and Bolos still come up in conversation 👍

[@2012listo]

Didn't the Bolo have a human mind?

[@LeashMechanic]

@@2012listoover the course of the series they used limited AI until the Mark XX when they became self-aware and sentient. With the Mark XXXII they introduced a neural interface which allowed the Bolo and its human commander to mentally merge human intuition with the Bolo’s far superior processing speed.

[@AndrewVelonis]

Years ago, I heard of a concept for a naval gun by which, instead of one explosion pushing a projectile down a barrel, there would be several explosions pushing the projectile even as it moved. Any word on how that worked out?

[@aaa-rp3dp]

If it worked, you ain't gonna hear bout it for a while

[@v10killers]

Germany tried something similar back in ww2. Look up the V-3 cannon

[@_j_t_p_]

Sounds like a worse way to apply a rail guns mechanics. I think it'd be obsoleted by this

[@leventesapi9882]

I think the original idea of this kind of gun was imagined by germans in ww2.

[@pyanovbopis2967]

Сколько надо кило джоуле без российскова газа, или урана???

[@PUNKMYVIDEO]

A must have for collectors of all ages.

[@Drakemiser]

Magnet freedom. Laser freedom.Rocket freedom. Whole lot of freedom.

[@kummer45]

And of course, I do agree with full funding for THIS project. The US needs the best weapons available for the nation and their allies.

[@bloodybonescomic]

Yeah.... so we can steal their oil and minerals and give them some "democracy" in return.

[@springheeljak953]

Yet we don't have enough money to take care of our disabled veterans

[@topcommentsfromothervideos3686]

@@springheeljak953 why did you even need to use money they're the ones that print it. Ridiculously high amounts of money can be used especially when you're the person printing it.

[@user-de8bu5es6f]

And so biden can give them to the worlds enemys.

[@thebreadstealer701]

Imagine your stranded on a secluded island 80 miles away from a test site. Your just chilling when all of a sudden there's just this flaming projectile whirring by

[@jacobyouknowwho]

Judging by the fact that it shoots at a speed of 2.4 km per second, I doubt you'll even see it.

[@Somerandomguy524]

Most naval guns are for decoration these days, ships want to avoid direct fire engagements at all costs, and most modern ships have been converted into missile platforms anyways.

[@klassicjammer7322]

Used to play a ps2 game called red faction back in like 2000 and one gun it had was the rail gun and you could shoot people through walls. Ever since have been fascinated by the concept.

[@paulreadsthebible6584]

Looks like a great weapon to be used in outerspace. I wonder what those will look like.

[@George196207]

A couple hundred pound metal rod just dropped from space can take out a city block almost . They have them out there from all accounts since the 1970's.

[@subsonicslime]

I like how the projectiles just warp time and space as they fly through the air

[@bananamontana1136]

The fire released by the gun firing isn't anything explosive, the bullet is moving so fast when the gun fires that all the oxygen around the muzzle is instantly turned into fire, which really shows how powerful it is

[@bekanav]

I'm not sure if you are serious but it looks like that (?) because projectile creates a shock wave which changes refractive index of air near it. Small piece of metal flying 3km/s doesn't "warp time and space". Most violent incidents in dying stars can be 50 000x faster and million billion billion times more massive. They definitely warp time and space, even to singularity

[@RedRocket4000]

@@bekanav Well just about anything will warp space/time it one thing not separate but the warp so small it can't be detected short of laboratory instruments. Bees though can pick up the fact the warping effect we call gravity is higher or lower in spots in order to tell other bees the location. Time moves slower the closer you are to the mass attracting you to it by bending space/time gravity is not a force it and effect of space/time curvature.

[@bekanav]

@@RedRocket4000 Yes but not in any significant neither observable manner Your bee theory sounds silly

[@Lonech]

it's not time and space being warped, it's air getting bunched up extremely tight (extreme pressure gradient causes the shockwave). It's true that mass at speeds nearing the speed of light will cause local spacetime curvature influences, but pedantic to say that time is being warped by this, as the influence would be infinitesimally small.

[@spdcrzy]

4:20 TIL. That's actually incredibly smart from a strategic perspective. Since they can't be GPS or radar jammed, they are incredibly resilient to SIGINT attacks.

[@Darth1Marik]

I can tell you with certainty that they aren't going to ever put a railgun on a ship. 1) it's expensive as hell and can't fire many rounds due to the fact they were unable to find a material to withstand the heat generated from the electricity. 2) cheaper options can do the job a rail gun does just fine and have even longer range than 100 miles. 3) Laser Tech is also much more effective.

[@MysticiaDevHoopsMacabre]

You know, earlier in time computers took up an entire room and cost millions of dollars to make. Imagine how much smaller and how much cheaper that railguns will be 50 years down the road.

[@vladchannelyt]

Sadly railguns aren't the endgame here. They are stupidly inefficient and the rails get absolutely annihilated within a few hundred launches from both friction and the Lorentz forces. They're a "trial run" and just a stepping stone towards much much more powerful weapons called Coil Guns. They are much more difficult to make but unlike with railguns, the projectile is accelerated through pure magnetic force, without physical contact. Energy efficiency of those is extraordinary, and the projectile speed has no other theoretical limit but the speed of light (well, just shy of it as accelerating something with mass to 1c would require an infinite amount of energy), and it doesn't suffer from rail degradation or anything like that. The only problem is TIMING the magnets and actually actuating them too. Also, it requires superconductors to act efficiently, and high temperature super conductivity isn't really a thing yet. It's inconvenient carrying Liquid Nitrogen on warships right? But in fact, we already use gigantic coil guns for a different purpose. They're called particle accelerators. Look up coil guns, they're really cool.

[@UTUBE3JC]

The iRail, from Apple 2040, useful for firing projectiles or sending small packages to people within range (not responsible for damaged items)

[@vladchannelyt]

@@UTUBE3JC Lmfao facts

[@matthewgoodofficial2653]

@@UTUBE3JC how are you doing

[@UTUBE3JC]

@@matthewgoodofficial2653 not too bad I guess thx hope ur well

[@youtubearmy9680]

Rumor has it, it's Railly good.

[@johnharrison6745]

It's just a wild Gauss chase. 😉

[@MultiCommissar]

Saying that they're shelving the project only means that they've made progress that they aren't willing to admit to

[@Gutch220]

Even though it's fast, I think we're moving more towards 'smart' guided weapons.

[@LeCloudey]

I like how they keep using the same one sound effect for the explosions lol no matter the range

[@KaylaKent]

im glad i wasnt the only one who noticed this lmao

[@geraldstahlman7036]

The gatling gun drawback is the difference between the amount of time it can actually shoot versus the time it takes to reload it's magazine. Ithink it should have a 100,000 round magazine with a backup magazine also

[@lucaarienta7690]

SOLAMENTE! SERVIREBBE UN CARICATORE DA 400.000 COLPI!

[@TiocfaidhArLa34]

the m134 minigun works off a belt not a magazine. you can make that belt as long as you want. anyway the m134 is NOT a machine gun. it is a minigun. it is built for a completely different purpose than the machine gun.

[@user-pq3um6ue5p]

How could you been in the military and NOT refuse???? That is scary.

[@Obxhatman]

In todays world with hypersonic missiles , lasers seems to be the best defense against that. However , the other side will have the same technology. Rail guns seem to be the best offense because a laser is not going to stop something like that , travelling at those speeds , being they can travel probably 100's of miles by now , seems the fastest way to get rid of an enemy from a very long range away.

[@TheGito413]

Rail Guns are already on Destroyers an a smaller version on a AC-130. The Railgun used to malfunction only because the electricity was so hot when firing a projectile it would wear out the inside of barrel. But they been perfected it they also used this gun in the Transformer Movie around 2007-08. It's just classified on ships but they do have them operational. Source: Trust me Bro

[@gallaugal9099]

honestly this sounds more trustworthy just cause u said that

[@warrenpuckett4203]

I think one may have already been the old DD 964 test ship. I used have a bumper sticker from when I was on it. DD 964 Paul F Foster Riding on the current (From 4 x 22,000 KW (LM 2500s)) The Foster had all electric propulsion. No gear reduction from the LM 2500s to the shafts. Like the Perry Class.

[@chuckconnor7157]

There are videos of a smaller version rotating and aiming up and down. This video is old.

[@57menjr]

😄

[@glennduncan6843]

I could just see how effective a fixed rail gun would be on a ship during a full on rolling swell. Being so large a fixture, at present the rail guns can not be manoeuvred or be aimed, elevated or rotated, and can only be fired in a dead straight ahead one level direction. Other than that, they look great and make for a good video!

[@laskey2175]

You wouldn't use a weapon like this for general combat anyway. You use a weapon like this as a "big stick" that can take out large things. You would fire it at something like a fortress or use it as long range artillery. A rail gun would be a devastating piece of artillery.

[@CouchPotator]

or they just never bothered with proper turning and aiming mounts because the viability of the gun wasn't known (and is currently known to be un-viable because of wearing problems) it sure looks a lot smaller than the guns on an Iowa Battleship.

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

Good points. This was a test bed experiment.. Not a fully functional weapons system.

[@piaresquare5424]

wait till you hear about the "large fixtures" they already maneuver, elevate, and rotate really though they only hard mount them for the testing they're doing

[@nonyobussiness3440]

I think they would make good army weapons or Air Force

[@karlament6939]

And the US and China have these weapons mounted on a military ship already in action they're known as a electromagnetic High Velocity rail gun turret

[@colin8696908]

Was thinking this might not work on a ship but what about as artillery, you could use caseless ammunition to reduce the cost of producing shells.

[@DeifiedThoughts]

Wow looking through all these comments its crazy seeing how knowledgeable and enthusiastic so many people actually are about the mechanics of these weapons of war I take it a lot of people commenting have military backgrounds.

[@leeninfxstb]

No military background but I worked in wind tunnels at NASA for a bit and I was enamored back in the late 80s/early 90s (when i was a teen) when the concept was first proposed with rail and even coil guns. Coil guns are badass! And actually faster comparatively to rail guns but the projectiles are more complex (kind of like a redesigned and rethought armature of an electric motor...so they would be more money and not worth it, especially when you can just feed the rail gun more power. These things are so cool! They're Star Trek tech!

[@navinadv]

@@leeninfxstb exactly. The challenge with both rail /coil guns and lasers is that there are faster options to take out incoming aerial threats. Rail/coil guns can easily be overwhelmed if they are faced with 100s of smaller threats.

[@B01]

My favorite part of all this, is a 64mega joule weapon of the future has a software system that was either replaced on screen for security reasons, or is less advanced/visually complex than the average Super Nintendo game from 20+ years ago 🤣 That screen seriously said "Dump, Charge, Fire and Abort!!!" In the biggest clickable boxes ever made🤣🤣 I can't rn 🤣🤣

[@rinzler9775]

Robust software needs to be as simple as possible, easy to use when you have shrapnel wounds distracting you. If big simple buttons is all that is needed, that is good, although I'm sure its a mock up.

[@mikoyan454]

The simpler the interface, the better it is to use

[@AaronBockelie]

Looks like they're using labview.

[@silverXnoise]

Can’t wait for you to discover how much of the world is run off the Linux command line. Fancy graphical interfaces are for movies and video games.

[@B01]

@@silverXnoise yeah, lemme just put aside the gui (pc) that's inside everyone's home on the planet, the one that's in everyones pocket, and the half dozen hours a day of content consumed by everyone on the planet and get back to you at how much of "the world" isnt graphical based lol having it as a base doesn't make it what it is. No one's negating linux's existence or importance anyway so not even sure what you're on about lmao but now to have the detail in front of us at all times? Yeah sorry, no one misses dealing with DOS or similar. May as well go back to T9 while you're at it if that's ur thing lol

[@tremsls]

Distance fired at sea proves without a doubt a flat and level plane.

[@aaronw.2050]

Look at all of this cool stuff that’s pointing right at the American people. So cool.

[@nguyenhieu6731]

For Trumpet fan

[@bradkrit]

It's crazy that the laser makes the same sound as the rail gun

[@bradkrit]

@@RandomRoulett3 must be some sort of audio engineering to make the guns sound like dumpsters and catch the enemy by surprise

[@Binderbird4X4Firebird]

I'm going to guess that most people see the puff of smoke coming out of that rail gun thinking it has some sort of powder charge but in reality the atmosphere around the projectile get so hot that it ignites!!

[@ronykhan8126]

Outstanding technology!

[@nazongo]

I didn't know about the lasser gun. That is mind blowing , we are just learning how yo use drones and now we have a gun that can make them obsolate.

[@simpleandsuccess]

Man, imagine a battleship with like 20 of these guns mounted to shoot at a single target over and over again. You could shred ships. Unfortunately, its a relatively close range weapon - and close range combat (based on things I've learned watching grimreapers anyways aha) is not really something modern navies are likly to do.

[@git9036]

Propelled by an electrical current and traveling at speeds up to Mach 7.5, the US Navy's Hyper Velocity Projectile can shoot out of a rail gun to destroy enemy ships, vehicles and missiles at ranges up to 100 nautical miles.

[@johnnylego807]

You are correct, though you are wrong at the fact this is “short range” it has a range of 100 miles!! And it’s probably more now, since this was an old vid.They could hit an enemy ship from 100 miles away, shred it too peices, and there enemy won’t even know what him them. Or see what hit them, other than boats within radar range.

[@vladchannelyt]

@@johnnylego807 Railguns can achieve much higher velocities too but current materials and more importantly, on-board power generation systems, can't handle them. The only ship that I know of that could handle powering a railgun with a projectile kinetic energy of 50 MJ or more (this one gets to 10 while using a lot more than that for acceleration due to the inherent inefficiency of a railgun) is USS CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford with its two nuclear reactors and modern power distribution systems and other overengineered stuff. Probably practical projectile speed limit is around Mach 20 to 30, materials, even the currently theorized or just barely synthesized new ones, can't keep up with the friction. Then you have to increase projectile mass really if u need more energy, which is inefficient as in the equation for kinetic energy velocity is squared but mass isn't. Coil guns are where the real magic happens but we need high temperature superconductors for practical reasons and incredibly fast switches that can also handle the energies, and they all need to be timed with a margin of error in somewhere in the region of picoseconds. Those guns have no real limit other than the laws of physics and are efficient as it's frictionless, magnetic acceleration

[@matthewgoodofficial2653]

Hello

[@brunopadovani7347]

The problem is that the weapon's velocity makes it either line of sight, or very long range. There is no way to shoot something that fast just a little bit over the horizon. But it's moot, since the the program was cancelled.

[@castlekingside76]

Amazing. This weapon needs a near Costco sized building due to its size and weight. Still, an impressive piece of kit. Railguns have always been sought.

[@coreytaylor5386]

luckily, the US Navy has a particular fondness for near Costco sized ships with mini nuclear reactors built in them too. cant remember if they are still in service, but it wasn't to long ago nuclear powered cruisers where sailing along side the super carriers

[@George196207]

That's what they show, not what the thing has to be.

[@RyanLeCocq]

“Sir, what do we need this for?” “We stopped asking that question in the 70s son. Just admire the majesty.”

[@michaelvickers89]

We’ve been hearing about this for like the past decade and yet to see it applied anywhere other than a test and research station. I think that part of the huge price tag for the ford class aircraft carriers was the upgraded power to possibly one day field these “new” weapons? Please correct me if I’m wrong. I admit that I don’t know everything…

[@LaMadriguera]

Rail Guns use a Shit Ton of electricity to work, and need to be "Charged" for quite some time... So, it cant be reliable mounted into anything really... Is an amazing technology Made with amazing enginerieing and works with amazing Phisics, but as amazing as it is, its also non convenient.

[@tlxatom7004]

Right now the military is in on laser weapons and in the future, coil guns. We just know those today as particle accelerators

[@seth468]

Actually they didn't abandon the railgun program and it IS currently deployed on all Gerald R Ford supercarriers in a useful capacity, just not in the capacity we expected. Instead of inert slugs, it fires airplanes, in the form of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS).

[@Quarks_Bar]

The Rail Gun would be the Perfect Weapon to use in theoretical Space Wars. I wonder if the military was thinking the same thing I am during its development

[@peterkim8524]

The only question i have energy where to get those sweet megavatts to load the railgun shots

[@subfreakuent]

Better late than never: On-board nuclear reactor.

[@davidwong825]

I thought navy has abandoned the railgun project

[@seanriopel3132]

ME TOO!

[@info_fox]

Doesn't mean bae systems did

[@TheBigExclusive]

Yeah. The video is outdated. The program got cancelled. The barrel would get messed up after a few shots and it used enormous amounts of electricity.

[@dMb1869]

Can the actual video be updated? Because it says in the video that it’s been abandoned in favor of new missiles and lasers.

[@kennethcallahan7537]

I have a question about the Tomahawk. It's a successful missile for the Navy. Could it be fired from the aircraft of the Air Force and even used by the Army or the Marines equipment like tanks or helicopters.

[@ljubomirculibrk4097]

You hawent been in the army? Birocracy rules, and branches dont mix

[@kennethcallahan7537]

It's what's wrong when there's training together, it's called LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND WERE GOING TO NEED TO MIX .

[@Knight_Kin]

I guess you could launch tomahawks from bomb 'truck' style planes maybe but i don't see what the point would be. Likely it's because the Tomahawk missile fits a specific role that only syncs with US navy guided missile cruisers would be used for. It's a purpose built weapon for that kind of platform.

[@markmcdonagh4498]

There were both versions. The GLCM, Ground Launched Cruise Missile, was a Tomahawk fired from a TEL that was deployed to Europe in the 1980s. After the fall of the USSR, the weapon was no longer needed, and existing missiles were converted to naval use. An air launched variant was designed for anti-ship use, primarily from P-3 aircraft, but the proven Harpoon was better for several reasons. An air-to-ground Tomahawk would be redundant with the USAFs Air Launched Cruise Missile and was never pursued.

[@CheatingZubat]

That’s over 1.5 miles a SECOND

[@davepane7306]

I can't imagine being the guy who operates that beast 😅

[@jarlaxle3588]

Railguns really aren't that destructive compared to what we already have. The only real reason to use one would be for penetration....at the speed it can send a hardened projectile it could cut through armor and fortifications that nothing else could compare too.

[@boogus1670]

Expert arm chair opinion, if a rail gun pierces through 2 aircraft carriers does it make them sink or no?

[@hugsforthehomies]

@@boogus1670 Expert arm chair reply, prob not unless it hits their ammunition as the hole would prob be too small to actually make them sink and definitely not fast enough to take them out of a fight. Could only really find a use if there comes a time when you can shoot missiles out of the air with lazars as the solid mass of the projectile shot by a rail cannon can't really be blocked unless it's hit by a missile

[@fredcarr3550]

Seems good enough to have one, as long as it's not fired in your direction.

[@boogus1670]

@@hugsforthehomies nice expert arm chair opinion, not gonna read it 😂

[@edubbs3528]

I'm curious of the other benefits of a railgun, such as size of projectile and the fact you could store a s--t ton of them and not have to worry about them exploding if hit since the projectiles themselves carry no explosives.

[@georgespix7125]

Ages ago my father was working at the General motors defense research laboratories in Goleta California. And they had a prototype of simply a rail gun like test. They up armored a target in the basement. Many layers of concrete block filled with cement. With a lot of lead in front of it. And fired this yet to be made into a weapon test case. And move that wall a foot or so back into the soil. Needless to say the employees above the basement and. Thought the world had come to an end. And it was the big one San Andreas had finally not only let off his stress. But had moved the land up a couple of feet. Squawks the macaw

[@GeronimoPlaz]

Wtf is your grammar?

[@telesniper2]

This makes no sense and I wonder if it was written by a bot

[@PiotrBarcz]

might want to rewrite the comment sir and do it grammatically correct, from what I can tell: The testing workers made a blasting target in the basement for a prototype railgun out of layers of concrete slab and then put a ton of lead in front of that. Then when the gun fired it had enough power to shove the wall of concrete and lead BACKWARDS by a FOOT.

[@timethious55]

Is this Dahlgrens naval Station ? I used to haul loads from Dahlgrens 3-4 days a week. I heard them test fire it all the time 😊

[@hungrynapps]

Leave it to the navy to test their weapons on their other weapons

[@clementgoetke2385]

this is old news and old footage

[@Wiketa]

😂

[@InternetGravedigger]

And what happens if something the military wants to target with the laser has a laser-reflective coating?

[@mjk6618]

Yoy mean like the "tent" atop the DIA?

[@icanreadthebible7561]

I've seen mirrors in a 4kw laser system explode from a tiny imperfection. These mirrors are specifically made to reflect/guide the beam BEFORE the beam is focused.

[@L0stEngineer]

Shift the wavelength and try again.

[@davidgaidasz5811]

As of right now, there are no coatings that can really stand the sudden energy input without being relatively heavy or fragile. Also - said target is also flying a giant "shoot me!" sign - as in "laser reflective" is also "radar reflective" - meaning normal AA missiles can see it easier. That's the REAL impetus behind of laser weapons... Most Stealth coatings are somewhat energy absorptive. Hit an energy absorptive coating with a Directed Energy Weapon and you get something that burns up even faster. oopsie!

[@MultiSerge1980]

Watching the Rail Gun System fire is very impressive, especially watching it blast through steel plate. However, that steel plate appears to be just in front of the muzzle of the gun. I wonder if long range tests of the gun system have actually been done? If you might remember, in history, the US Navy Ordinance Department developed a new Torpedo system that was supposed to explode under the hull of the enemy vessel when it passed through the magnetic field of the enemy ship and we all know how well the Mark 6 Exploder and the Mark 14 Torpedo worked during the early stages of WWII. One major problem with the system was that the Navy did little or no actual testing of the torpedo to determine if it really worked, which it didn't. The problem that I see with the Rail Gun System is that "In Theory" the gun is supposed to work very well, but as with the Mark 14 Torpedo, "Theory" didn't work. What I think needs to be done is to reactivate the system tests and set up a target, an old ship, and do a "SinkEx" using an operational Rail Gun System and shoot warheads at it at ranges of over 23 miles, the range of the 16-inch/50cal Mk7 main gun on a WWII Battleship, and see if the gun system can sink or damage another ship bad enough to put it out of commission. Next, I would take the Rail Gun System out to sea and shot it at "Prepared Beach Defenses" from 5 to 10 miles out and see how well it destroyed those defenses. Theory is great, but it is still only Theory until actual full-scale tests are completed and the Theory has been completely proven or we end up with the Mark 14 Torpedo, again.

[@seanwhitehall4652]

1:05 give a raise to whoever made that interface. Intuitive, simple, easy to use.

[@jimkirk4357]

The weapon is still in development. It has some issues that need time to engineer their way around. They haven't forgotten about this weapon. Often they shelve a weapon as they wait for the world to forget about it. It will shut down and seem to disappear. Further development will continue out of sight of prying eyes. Wouldn't be the 1st time they've done that.

[@SteelWolf13]

The weapon might be but the company that they keep showing in this video no longer has the contract and the project was shuttered a couple years ago.

[@californiabreeze2182]

you are correct ,just like the damper system.

[@howdareYou-wc8jm]

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[@gregpineda8660]

The U.S. Navy's experimental rail guns are all --- powerful,all --- deadly and also all --- destructive and should be very,very and very effective against their enemy military targets once they are ready to be assembled,mounted and installed in the U.S. Navy's surface warships like destroyers,frigates and corvettes including heavy cruisers,amphibious assault ships and even the whole,entire and all of U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers.Semper Fidelis

[@bobuncle8704]

Problem is no current ship has the electrical capability to run one. The almost need their own reactor just to power the gun

[@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269]

John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Amen 🙏!!!!

[@B01]

@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 Marine M:16 This is my rifle. I trust them more than God, sorry pal. They actually get things done

[@B01]

@@bobuncle8704 Carrier could then no? And if we have nuclear reactors on submarines, why not fit them to destroyers? I'm sure there's a simple "duhhh" answer, maybe some treaty or guidelines say nay? Or due to strict tonnage requirements or w.e of destroyers wouldn't be allowed? No idea, not my field but would be interested to know haha but would make for the extra power required

[@richardmoloney689]

Nah, the phaser arrays that the Irish navy has are much better.

[@trainsplanesandotherthings5187]

Ah... the Military Industrial complex.. The companies with the most connected lobbyist gets the contract !

[@harraldschmitt9113]

Ah yes. Who has not heard of the infinite-railgun-ammo-glitch. Better use it, bevor the devs patch it out

[@sthede1000]

I heard the US decided to give up on them, those guns are pulling themselves apart, where do you think all that explosive stuff is coming from off the end of the barrel. Additionally, very few ships can actually generate the electricity needed to fire them.

[@richardmoloney689]

The Galactica can.

[@SuperPizzaman55]

Always a use for different weaponry. Everything has its niche and nuclear powered vessels definitely could have the ability to shoot magnetically powered projectiles

[@gabrielmartinez6639]

@@richardmoloney689 True, we have to deploy the railguns immediately or the Cylons will be able to attack the fleet!

[@pavementsailor]

I read the same thing. It was being shut down. Old footage dredged up for content?

[@Khether0001]

The old man who lives next door of that facility must be so pissed! "Stop firing at my house, you punk kids!"

[@robertjohnsen8137]

I wonder if they have/could guide these projectiles? No heat traceability

[@skitzotheclown7984]

Not much for guns and cannons but this was fascinating!

[@Johnnyprc]

The problem with the rail gun is scalability outside testing conditions. The power draw for repetitive shots and the wear-n-tear on the barrel made its effective use way too low. I could see this tech coming back into consideration in 10+ years once advancements are made in materials and energy storage.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

The barrel life was the issue. I heard coil guns don't have that issue. I know how their design, but not how it fixes the problem. Maybe railguns could be used for anti nuke or satelittes capabilities.

[@Johnnyprc]

@@dianapennepacker6854 Yes, barrel life was the most critical problem, but power draw was right behind that issue in importance.

[@froodtube]

It is also range. The base has to be so stable it is essentially a shipboard installed system. 100 miles is not a very large range and would put the ships well within harms way of enemy missiles before the gun could even consider firing.

[@BryanL420]

Sometimes you only need one shot

[@blazingguyop]

True

[@stephenwest6738]

I feel like this is far less practical than it seems. It's basically a short range cannon? In what way is this better than a guided missile? To me it seems like the orbiting satellite containing thousand pound rods that can be released and dropped on a building at thousands of MPH delivering enough kinetic energy to level entire buildings and leave a 50 foot DE crater on impact. That makes sense, but shooting a "bullet" at an aircraft carrier instead of tomahawk would look cool, but is kinda silly considering our vast missile options

[@bulbasaur9291]

Dumb projectiles are cheap. Assuming you can develop a Canon precise and fast enough, you could have a cheap countermeasure to expensive missiles, and an alternative for short range targets.

[@davidgaidasz5811]

Two words: overall reload time. Modern VLS systems to fire missiles can only be reloaded in port. So once you fire your VLS allotment - you are done for the battle. Theoretically - the railgun can fire (cheaper) projectiles for as long as the BARREL holds out, which - to be fair -isn't much better than the VLS racks right now. Hence why the US Navy isn't aggressively pursuing installing these everywhere. The "rods from god" orbital artillery concept may not work as planned (look up terminal velocity) and is illegal by international space treaties anyways.

[@RJFP67]

The power supply system is not feasible. It’s huge and requires massive energy to operate.

[@eligriggs9221]

1:08 Would dimpling the fall away projectile shell casement allow for a longer barrel life? Or, perhaps a very super fine 'grit' or particles in a fluid magnetic liquid surrounding the projectile casement, to reduce friction and facilitate lubrication at the same time?

[@alberteinsteinthejew]

This is technically an electric weapon

[@blueskyresearch6701]

One of the most interesting things about rail guns is that they don't recoil the way you would expect the force isn't channeled straight back but it's instead directed in other directions and or absorbed by em fields. There are effects of interest for space propulsion and other fields in rail gun research.

[@nicholasw6442]

That would break Newton's 3rd law.

[@blueskyresearch6701]

@@nicholasw6442 indeed, yet it is what happens. There are likely no laws being broken but something interesting is happening. From the answer block in Google: Recoil forces in EM railguns appear wherever the breech of the railgun i s closed electromagnetically. This means recoil forces may appear on power supply leads, switches, or power supply components them- selves.

[@nicholasw6442]

@Blue Sky Research I took enough engineering physics classes to not buy this. Regular guns have primary and secondary recoil. Rail guns have virtually no secondary recoil. The primary recoil is caused by the acceleration of the projectile and is still going to cause a force be in the opposite direction, I don't believe there's a way around it. Do you have a reference to a study on the phenomenon you've described?

[@blueskyresearch6701]

There is a whole body of research into this if you are curious.

[@nicholasw6442]

@@blueskyresearch6701 can you link me to something?

[@johnkochen7264]

The US halted development of rail guns but the one in the video was built by BAE Systems, a British company.