A prototype of the Navy's electromagnetic railgun(DoD photo)
Task & Purpose: The Navy's top officer just admitted the much-hyped electromagnetic railgun is a big mess
Less than a year after declaring the U.S. Navy "fully invested" in the service's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is apparently experiencing some buyer's remorse over the $500 million supergun's troubled development.
Appearing before an audience at the Atlantic Council on Thursday, Richardson characterized the decade-old weapons system — capable of accelerating a projectile to hypersonic speeds but stuck in research and development limbo without a ship-board tactical demonstrator — as "the case study that would say, 'This is how innovation maybe shouldn't happen.'"
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Update: ‘Case Study’ In How Not to Innovate: US Admiral on Electromagnetic Rail Gun (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: The Chinese electromagnetic railgun project appears to be progressing .... China just tested the world's most powerful naval gun, and US intelligence says it will be ready for warfare by 2025 (CNBC).
