US Navy Tests Supersonic Heavy Gun Firing Magnetically-Propelled Shells @ Mach 7

Reaganite Republican ^ | March 2, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[SunkenCiv]

Harkening back to a grapeshot approach using something like this would obviate the need to shoot down enemy planes one by one. Or enemy tanks, vehicles, or soldiers. Thanks Reaganite Republican.

[tanknetter]

The retired battleship guns could reach more than 23 miles with an 1800 pound projectile.

There was a 40+ mile range 13" submunition subcaliber sabot shell for the Iowas that was just about to enter shipboard testing when the Iowa explosion occurred. Ironically, it was Iowa's Turret 2 that had been selected for the testing. But the preliminary work at Dahlgren had been done.

There was also a 100 mile GPS-guided 11" subcaliber sabot shell that DARPA was working on for the Iowas. Never got off the drawing board, again a victim of the Iowa explosion and the BBs being retired.

[Eye of Unk]

I can really see a new Navy vessel, its a battleship submarine, it can close in on a country in littoral waters by stealth but comes to the surface to fire. Or at least close to the surface.

Get in, and get out.