this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
155 points (98.1% liked)

Technology

59436 readers
4386 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
155
Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel (www.eurasiantimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel::Japan has successfully test-fired a medium-caliber maritime electromagnetic railgun from an offshore platform, as it continues to advance its defenses in the face of burgeoning regional security threats.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're thinking of EMALS. It's a catapult for aircraft, not a gun. Pretty close in concept though. Had some teething issues, turned out larger than expected, but works just fine now.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The GAO says it still has reliability issues that won’t likely be ironed out for about a decade.