RAILGUN, RAILGUN, RAILGUN, RAILGUN...

[Volpone]

They've launched the Zumwalt.

This makes my pee-pee so hard. Largest destroyer built for Navy heads out to sea | Fox News

For those keeping score at home, the Zumwalt was planned as a future weapons platform for sci fi weapons like the railgun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PItPL7EZEc

I'd post news snippets but Facebook has made me lazy, since it creates snippets for me.

 

[Starship Coyote]

That would be great for deer hunting.

 

[Volpone]

:rofl: I would pay to see a deer hit with a railgun slug.

If you've ever seen the USS Arizona Memorial and/or toured the USS Missouri, you understand the value of the railgun. Battleships had to carry a huge amount of heavy and dangerous explosive--both propellant charges and the actual shells. If you have a railgun, you get an even better effect with none of the weight or danger. And if you've ever studied amphibious warfare you also understand the value of the railgun. The modern 5" guns on destroyers and cruisers can't begin to supply the range and volume of naval gunfire an old Iowa class could in support of landing forces. A railgun doesn't give you the volume, but the range, accuracy, and destructive effects are awesome.

 

[Volpone]

Oh, my peepee is so hard. They're thinking about putting one on a Zumwalt class as early as 2018:

Navy considers installing powerful railgun on destroyer within 2 years
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Published February 15, 2016 Associated Press
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Development of a futuristic weapon depicted in video games and science fiction is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard a destroyer planned to go into service in 2018.

The Navy has been testing an electromagnetic railgun and could have an operational unit ready to go on one of the new Zumwalt-class destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works.

Adm. Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated the idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson, though no final decision has been made.

"The Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for the electromagnetic railgun," said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy spokeswoman. "Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others."

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[The Question]

YOU get a railgun! And YOU get a railgun! EVERYBODY GETS A RAILGUN!