🚨 Japan makes history! 🇯🇵 For the first time ever, a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun has been successfully fired at sea. 🔹Next-level naval firepower 🔹Faster, longer-range, and more precise than traditional cannons 🔹Signals a major leap in maritime defense technology The era of railgun-powered warships is officially here. 🌊⚡

Japan builds to perform. China builds to impress. One side refines technology, the other rehearses power.

US Navy gave up due to a number of issues - great to see a key ally solve those issues

Railguns and other plasma guns are a dead-end weapon. Here's why: 1. The combustion energy of any fuel, even something as inefficient as gunpowder, is many orders of magnitude higher—thousands of times—than the capacitance of supercapacitors. For hundreds of dollars, you can simply outperform a railgun with... classic barrel artillery. This was the main reason why railguns were discontinued, not barrel wear. 2. But the artillery principle itself is extremely inefficient. Why do we need maximum velocity at the muzzle exit? No one needs it because we suffer monstrous losses of kinetic energy due to air friction, and the losses are maximum because maximum velocity is at the very bottom of the ballistic traectory. Conversely, maximum velocity is needed at the top of the parabola—and that's what missiles are for. Compare the "Schwerer Gustav" and "Tochka U" in size, weight, and pre-fire preparation speed (hundreds of times the weight, and the pre-fire preparation time is an hour versus four weeks). But the missile has greater range and accuracy with the same warhead weight. 3. The enemy has changed – you won't get a battleship as enemy, but a swarm of tiny, ultra-cheap drones. Big guns aren't necessary; you need smart "shotguns." Just ask the Russian Black Sea Fleet (which is at the bottom for precisely this reason lol). 4. The railgun is monstrously expensive.

Est-ce lié au programme RAFIRA ? 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵

Definitely not the first time. USA had single use railguns on at least one ship until the materials for launcher were fixed and got 10 rounds a minute. Then we retrofit a carrier to launch planes with same tech. Japan is 30 yrs behind.

The first electromagnetic railgun was fired in 1980 by the US Naval Research Laboratory. Technology only half a century old is a big breakthrough for japanese 😂

I wonder if it would be practical to scale it down to make an EM truck mounted artillery.

If I don't remember it wrong, it's the 3rd or 4th time Japan has been firing that gun at sea. Thus it's not he first time

A major milestone, no doubt — but let’s see how it performs outside of controlled tests. Power demands, heat management, and reload logistics are still massive hurdles.

How did they solve rail wear?

Hopefully it's aimed eastward.

The US Navy gave up on the railgun, maybe Japan will sell us one.

chinese drone for 90 bucks sinks the ship, what now?

german had this in ww2... and still have a same problems...

Idiots in US failed and just built their mansions with our cash.

Not unless they've solved the problem of the barrel becoming unserviceable after a dozen firings.

HOW can this work.. if the eath is a BALL with curvature?? Dumbasses everywhere...

1, 5MJ toy, a working railgun needs at least 20MJ to destroy a naval target 2, 1.5shot/min, 320g 40mm shell, barely able to damage a small fishing boat 3, need 2 standard shipping crates of batteries 4, Even the Japanese think this is a money laundering scam

The boat name is Asuka 💀. it’s the period where the Japan discovered the Chinese Buddhism, the Chinese kanji’s and the Chinese architecture . Where they tried to copy the Chinese Tang dynasty

meanwhile in China

Not true! The first time ever was when China fired an electromagnetic gun from a ship more than 8 years ago. Educate yourself.

99% Sure the USA navy did this decades ago

Just proves the earth is flat

Yikes! Up to 7 times the speed of sound?!? That's Mach 9.

Excellent 👏🏻

Is it the same success as a month ago?

Does it make a sound when it is launched?

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@kaan_fox3 Bizim bir proje vardı ne oldu o ? Bilgimiz varmı son haber vs ?

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Hey Chinese @junshiguancha this is already operational how much time until yours is?

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