Japan has successfully tested a naval railgun at sea against a target ship. According to ATLA, the railgun, mounted on the JMSDF’s test ship Asuka, successfully carried out long-range firings and the shooting at a target ship during the trials. The tests of the gun were conducted with the cooperation of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The photos show the moment of the target ship being aimed at, as well as that of the railgun firing, using the Asuka. The fire control system is also visible next to the railgun. ATLA said details of the tests will be reported at its “ATLA Technological Symposium 2025” to be held on November 11-12 in Tokyo.In previous trials conducted by ATLA, a projectile fired from a 6-meter-long, 40-millimeter-caliber barrel reached a hypersonic speed of 2,297 meters per second (nearly Mach 7) surpassing the roughly 1,750 meters per second achieved by a tank gun, the fastest conventional artillery system.
>>64295978Asia is growing stronger. Despite America being the first to begin railgun research and making important advances, they gave up while Japan continued advancing and produced a working weapon.
>>64295978based
>40mmNothingburger.
>>64296003>they gave upAt least our McDonald's doesn't serve sushi.
>>64296003It's a good thing Japan picked up this system again through technology transfer because there's different roles for it. It's meant to be a missile defense system while the US wanted luxurious range for theirs.
>>64296011>-t. battleships fanJapanese railguns are for anti-missile defense not shore bombardment dummy. 40mm is a historical sweet spot for it.
>>64296051>fucking autocorrect changed ludicrous to luxurious
>>64296011>>64296054Im not good at math, but 40mm projectile weighing 10kg going 3km/s probably has a fuck load of energy.
>>64296051>missile defenseIs this thing supposed to stop a ballistic missile in terminal phase? My understanding is that railguns have too low of a rate of fire to replace the good old Aegis + CWIS combo.
>>64296413Phalanx based CWIS is reformer bullshit, SeaRAM CWIS is much better. Intercepting with a railgun projectile in conjunction with SeaRAM should in theory be easier as there's less travel time to take into account.
>Asuka
>>64295978I hope the target ship was a North Korean fishing boat.
Any recent news about the Chinese naval railgun?
>>64296024Your McDonalds serves niggers. Big W for you eh?
>>64296024But sushi is good.
>>64296003thing America thing Japan memetest shots of developmental railgun (America)test shots of developmental railgun (Japan)Personally I wish we kept funding the railgun for the same reason we fund space telescopes or non-stem academics, it's just an inherent moral good to pursue knowledge and achievement that makes the world a more beautiful place, like railguns.In practical terms it certainly works as far as the technology being real and being able to fire some dakka super fast, but working -better- than conventional boring shit on the cost/effectiveness/rate of fire/reliability etc calculation is hard to be very optimistic about even if we put in massive investments in time and money, so we sadly canned it.
>>64296495They never did give me that video of it firing that I wanted, guess it really was a nonfunctional prop after all
>>64296858>he didn't see the videoget on chinese internet gwailo dummy
>>64295978Japan is so much better than china
>>64295978Based. Japan needs to prepare for the inevitable Chinese and/or North Korean chimpout and build up their military again. The West is, sadly, untrustworthy as fuck. They should just form their own defensive alliance at this point with South Korea and Taiwan and maybe the Philipines or something. The murderous commies on the mainland need to be tard-wrangled.
>>64296573>here is lice, vinegar, and fish I have notto cookedo>NO! You must eato the way I say howaito piggu! >that will be $500 dorra, you swine
>>64297892Be better off befriending China like in the old days. >>64297686
>>64296003>America's ally doing cool stuff is somehow bad for AmericaThirdies truly cannot comprehend a mutually beneficial relationship can they?
>>64297912He's wrong, but it's not so much mutual benefit as it is outsourcing.The US-Japan relationship, from the US perspective, is "What's mine is mine. What's yours is mine too."This is America's railgun.
>>64297919post American railgun.
>>64297923Here>>64295978Anything that belongs to Japan belongs to America.
>>64297927>Anything that belongs to Japan belongs to America.Blatantly false.
>>64297937
>>64297912Anything to own le west
>>64297900Here's your ass cancer, that'll be 9.99 plus tip
Asuka best girl
>>64296003japan is going through the same process the US did and will reach the same conclusion, that they don't have a solution for the material wear
>>64296063Both are acceptable
>>64301183We shall see
>>64296383By my tablecloth math your mass and weight would hit with 6800 lbf of force
>>64295978Was the target ship named "Rei"?
>>64301228シンジのお母さん
>>64301183>revealing your (extremely low) power levelThe US got barrel life over 300 shots/per before Japan even started building on that and estimated we could get 3k shots/bbl life.
>>64297892The entire US military budget is essentially a trillion dollar project to defend the pacific islands and all of trump's bullshit has been justified by his administration as a refocusing on PACOM.A JP-SK-Philipines alliance would get fucking dogwalked by China, we are the only guarantor of their security.Anyone saying "asia should tell us to fuck ourselves like Canada and Europe because we suck so much!" is mad about free access to transsexual hormones or something and not talking serious defense policy.Yeah we're fucking batshit crazy, China has the stability of a one party state if Taiwan decides being Hong Kong ain't so bad.
>>64301215Japan really needs to just focus on mechs and power armor. Or at least vastly improving battery storage capacity.
>>64301215Shinji, get in misato
>>64301264>incoherent schizo babble>/pol/ is that way ->
>>64296497Yes, the food from McDonald's is designed to chemically castrate thoes that consume it.
>>64301264>JP-SK-Philipines alliance would get fucking dogwalked by ChinaConsidering that Taiwan would be able to hold out for 2-3 weeks alone before US intervention I think you are underestimating the Japs and Gooks
>>64297937Japan is our vessel state since we conquered them in the second world war. Not acknowledging this as fact is peak delusion.
>>64301301>2-3 minutes FTFY
>>64301308Please keep your delusions to yourself chang
>>64301255The problem with the US gun wasn't that they couldn't get the barrel life they wanted, it's that they realized they couldn't get the power they wanted without giving up on the concept of barrel life entirely.This 20MJ railgun is far more conservative than anything the US ever considered.
Railguns are fascinating because the implication of successfully creating them is that you will no longer need the resources that go into making gun powder. It reminds me of the shift from the bronze age to the iron age.
>>64301318Why?Thirdie delusions top tier comedy
>>64301356>It reminds me of the shift from the bronze age to the iron age.How old are you?
>>64301384I would guess around either 2800 or 14, depending on how exactly he intended that to be read.
>>64301384
>>64301318Ok, how about -_- minutes?
>>64301324are there unclassified graphs on how barrel life scales with power? Does Japan get 4 times the barrel life, a hundred?We could know if they demonstrated repeated and rapid fire, of course they're under no obligation to demonstrate that for us, but it means we're in the dark about true capabilities.>>64301384fucker still owes me for that shit copper
>>64301324Serious question, what performance advantage is this lower power gun going to have over a traditional one?
>>64301469The japs are probably aiming for anti-missile capabilities, specifically anti-hyper sonics.
>>64301481I see. do we know if the projectile will be solid shot or some kind of proximity fuze? I feel like the former will be difficult to achieve the desired accuracy necessary
>>64301516Nothing is ever solid shot. It'll probably be a datalinked or timed prefragmented shell like the one 35mm SPAAGs use.
>>64296003>implying this isn't built off of American developments>implying the US won't acquire or purchase the tech if Japan brings it to fruition Have you perhaps considered that the US and Japan are allies and don't regularly partake in unprovoked duplicitous behavior with each other?>>64297912I've been saying this for years, Russia and China are particularly infamous offenders when it comes to that. Some of the most funny examples in the recent past are Russia's many attempts to scam defense customers like the whole Algerian MiG-29 debacle>>64301228The JMSDF hasn't had an Ayanami since 1986
>>64301516Definitely will be airburst. Only possible problem I could imagine is how will the round be programmed after being subjected to massive magnetic fields.
>>64296617the bottleneck is still at the power source, there has to be a revolutionary breakthrough there before railgun technology can really start to mature
>>64301614You mean the capacitors? Because there's no problem with power sources from a ship.
>>64301614Just do small-scale nuclear reactors
>>64301614Zumwalt has 70 MW of onboard power generation.
>>64301578>how will the round be programmed after being subjected to massive magnetic fieldsJust program it in the breech.There's no powder explosion to damage the contacts and it's not 1941, it can be wireless too.Could still be muzzle programmed, just needs the receiver to be sensitive to a narrow band of magnetism.
>>64301578Use the massive magnetic forces to do the programming, like yelling a set of instructions instead of speaking them
>>64301384EA-Nasir Customer
>>64301614https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_cruisers_of_the_United_States_Navy
>>64301614Are you retarded? Imagine a science-fiction power source which is safe, stable, easy to transport, cheap, and 10x the power density of TNT. It's called diesel fuel. Ships everywhere use it.
>>64302376Honestly slapping a couple generators in the engine room seems like an easy fix
The Nature is healing.
>>64304427Smug 5th level brats need correction.
>>64301302Then why don't they share?
>>64296413Rate of fire for a railgun is basically determined more by capacitor capacity (or recharge rate) than anything else except for barrel life on a more macro scale. So it would be possible to build like a floating capacitor bank and prime movers if you wanted to go all in on using it as an anti-ASBM/HGV tool. Not sure you *should* but there is nothing in physics preventing that from working
>>64295978wake me up when the attach it to a Gundam
>>64297923Ours was run by ARL with BAE as the prime so it was always a pretty multinational thing. In the end, the barrel life and capacitor problems were all fixable, but SPAWAR realized to make use of it with current capacitor technology would require basically a clean sheet new hull design with a lot of the multi-mission capacity of a regular destroyer deleted just for the railgun equipment, possibly up to and including the radar. The alternative was a nuclear powered, CGN or BBN class ship that they knew congress would not approve so there were both technical and budgetary/political challenges that killed it. >t. Worked in the lab immediately next door to ARL and routinely pissed myself when they fired the railgun because they never informed us beforehand
>>64304559So now the Japs are in a great position to make it happen from what it seems.
>>64295978> *yawn*Impress me with a wave motion gun. I'll bow.
>>64301302If you can't even distinguish between "vessel" and "vassal", maybe you should not post.
This seems pointless. Regular missiles can already get fast. Lasers are also even faster. Much like with battletech mechs, the ideal combo is lasers and missiles.
