Russia tests railgun 3 times faster than US

According to the Daily Mail, Russia has just successfully tested an electromagnetic railgun that is three times faster than the similar weapon the US is developing.

The source quoted from the Russian newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta (RG) revealed that the Russian electromagnetic gun currently being researched by the High Temperature Research Institute (under the Academy of Sciences) in Shatura has continued to have successful tests and achieved a speed 3 times faster than the American electromagnetic gun.

"In laboratory tests, we tested an electromagnetic gun that fired a bullet weighing just a few dozen grams at a speed of up to 6.25 km/s (22,500 km/h), which is very close to the first cosmic speed," said Alexey Shurupov, director of the Institute of High Temperature Research at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Shatura.

Russia tests electromagnetic railgun.

With the terrifying speed of the bullet made by the above laboratory in Russia, no protective layer of current military equipment can withstand it, from warships, tanks, planes. And it is said to fly 3 times faster than the speed of the American electromagnetic cannon in the test (7,000km/h).

According to leading defense experts, success with electromagnetic weapons could change the nature of future naval warfare.

Compared to missiles, electromagnetic weapons have many advantages in terms of low cost of use, easy maintenance and high combat performance. In fact, no matter how large a warship is, it can only carry a certain number of missiles.

When used up to reload, the warship is forced to return to port or a specialized system to reload. Electric weapons do not need this because the ammunition structure is small, can be easily transported like conventional artillery shells, and can even be supplied at sea.

In combat, missiles can be affected by jamming factors that can miss the target if the guidance system is disabled. This is not the case with electromagnetic weapons.

The ability to fly purely inertial, supersonic speed, the attack warhead has a small cross-section reflector, so it is almost impossible to prevent or interfere with them. With a high muzzle velocity, the destructive ability of the railgun shell fired is no different from that of heavy explosive warheads.

In terms of cost, each attack missile costs from hundreds to millions of USD per unit, while each unit of electromagnetic rail gun costs only a few tens of thousands of USD. Meanwhile, the range of the rail gun has reached almost the same level as that of popular missiles today.

According to Baodatviet