electrical needle gun will be placed on the deck high-speed landing ship USNS "Trenton".

mid-2016 planned test of a railgun, created by specialists of Scientific research Directorate of the U.S. Navy (ONR), reports BusinessInsider.

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electromagnetic gun will be placed on the deck high-speed landing ship USNS "Trenton". Shooting will be in the range of 80-100 km During the test will be used the corrected kinetic projectiles HVP, targeting by means of GPS. The existing prototype gun has a muzzle energy of about 33 megajoules.



the Gun firing aerodynamic kinetic shells, Packed in antistatic trays. The us military have high hopes for the railgun, hoping at the end of the test to get a gun capable of firing projectiles whose velocity is equal to 9000 km/h.

the Range of fire of the railgun will be about 180 miles, hitting targets at the expense of the kinetic explosion of kinetic energy into heat when braking.

See also: Chinese style high-speed electromagnetic gun.