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For the curious, the key specs mentioned in the article:
200 rounds per barrel takes the gun into practical territory. I bet Taiwan could use a fozen of them.
Interesting to hear what the true range ends up being.
That's a pretty respectable life for a railgun. Dunno what the material cost is coming up to.
Now, how well can it intercept?
Would be really interesting to learn about how stable the ammunition is in flight. I don't imagine it would be easy to have any kind of active stabilization or guidance and the gun itself is probably quite heavy, so hitting drones is probably a no go, but hitting ships...
Yeah, now that I think about it, Mach 6 is not quite fast enough to intercept anything and lasers are probably more suited than this, despite their range and energy problems.
Of course, it being a railgun, not really expecting any sort of guidance in it. It's probably just a projectile.
Had it been around Mach 9 (~ 3km/s), I would consider it useful with a remote-release flak or sensor-assisted release flak for interception, as even tiny pebbles would be expected to disrupt nuclear armaments at those speeds.