Rail Guns

>$25 000 per round
I mean yeah it's cheap compared to missiles and whatnot but $25 000 for a small piece of metal? That sounds kinda crazy and yeah yeah i understand that they have to make it with ridiculously high tolerances but still.

>>34161626
There's also the dispersal mechanism, not to mention that all of this has to work under Mach 7 conditions

>>34161626
Several thousand for the piece of metal. 25k is the quote for standard GPS/INS guided anything.

~200k for millimeter-wave or navalized IR guidance.

>>34161664
I don't think the one he was holding in his hands was a guided projectile.

>>34161698
No it wasn't he said it was a test projectile, just a dummy round

The one with the fins on it was the real deal

>>34161626
Most of that price is from including the cost to replace the barrel every few thousand rounds.

Gun on battlship are useless nowadays, you can put a missiles in their place which travels farther. If someone has powerful guns who can't shoot very far goes up against someone who has hundreds for missiles that can travel far. Who so you think will win?

What is this shit in the videos showing the projectiles exploding into a ton of fragments? I was under the assumption that the railgun was nothing more than an unguided kinetic projectile. No fragments, no explosives, no guidance

>>34162518
its called high friction you dumb faggot. Someone didn't pay attention in the 6th grade.

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>>34161626
It is a GPS/INS guided projectile that can airburst into fragments, not just a small piece of metal.

It can also be shot out of 127mm and 155mm guns.

>>34162581
>>34162518
It has two modes, solid shot or airburst (like AHEAD 35mm rounds).

>>34162494
The people with both guns and missiles, of course.

>>34162494
Railfuns are useful because they don't rely on easily detonated explosives, are pound for pound infinitely more devastating than an explosive munition and have effectively infinite armor-penetration capabilities. A HEAT round of a certain size can chew through the insides of an MBT. A railgun equivalent can punch a hole through two set next to each other.

>>34162616

I would have expected it to be bigger.

For anyone curious

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3521821,-77.0298707,255m/data=!3m1!1e3

>>34161418

Do you ever just...wonder why other countries even exist? Like, how can you be proud of being French right now and knowing that you might as well be Zimbabwe when compared to the USA?

>>34162689
A projectile's power isn't necessarily reliant on size. Remember from high school physics; f=ma. Make something go fast enough the mass becomes less important. I'm pretty sure the actual penetration of a 120mm APFSDS round is only something like 20 or 30mm in diameter.

>>34162689
It's being made small as to be _pseudo_-compatible - you are not going to be able to properly fire these out of conventional cannons - with the field arty within the US Army and the primary gun-based armaments of US Navy surface combatants.
The guns themselves will have slightly bigger barrels due to the built-in rails and protection for the same, but outside of that...
I wonder if we'll see a return of modernized Atlanta-esque railgun cruisers, or armed USN carriers?

>>34162773

Yeah, but what if you want to knock over George Soros' castle or something?

>>34162786

What if battleships come back?

>>34162581
I'm not talking about the friction from the barrel you goddamned autist, I'm talking about the projectile exploding when it gets near a target. Clearly you didn't get past the 4th grade or you would have read that in my post.

>>34162769

This actually sort of explains the whole "we have to be as tolerant and diverse as possible" mania in Europe. When you can't be strong, it's natural to comfort yourself by boasting about having the moral high ground.

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>>34162786
It's the same round for Mk 45, AGS, and the railgun. Only the sabots are different since they act as barrel adapters.

>>34162773
the velocity quotient for kinetic energy is actually squared, meaning it's better to make it go faster than to actually make the projectile get bigger.

>>34162884
I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not.

>>34161418
Don't forget the Pirates of the Caribbean railgun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi-BDIu_umo

>>34162773
gotta go fast xD

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>>34162689
same. The projectile inside looks about the same size as tank 120mm APFSDS. I expected more mass for more less drift

>>34165733
>caring about drift with a guided finned projectile

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>>34162773
1/2m x v^2

>Ctrl+F
>no coilguns
baka

>>34161626
Its that much bc american engineers want to be paid shitloads for everything they design thats not crap.

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This is why they wont work in the closest 10 years
The projectile fucks up the barrel.

>>34162404
>every few rounds
ftfy

>>34165957
Coilguns are hobbyist garbage

>>34166220
Pay Indians or Chinese cheaply to do shit work instead if cost is that much of a factor.

>>34169533
$1000 Chinese railguns when?

>>34170186
Only when they figure out how to keep them from exploding on every shot, ie steal the tech from the US.

>>34163143
Are you saying if I move fast enough I might be able to please a woman with my micropenis?

>>34170433
No, but you can kill her.

>SSSSSSKULL FUCK SSSSUPREME

Said the sinister sexual slaughter snake.

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>>34161418
oh my god

>>34162689
Really. I thought he had quite a large cranium already. But I guess you might need even bigger brains to come up with this