Although the US electromagnetic gun has a speed of 7,000 km/h, this speed is only 1/3 of the electromagnetic gun Russia is developing.

Information that Russia is developing an electromagnetic gun was personally announced by Mr. Franz Klintsevich, Senator and First Deputy Chairman of the Security and Defense Committee of the Russian Federation Council.

"What the US announced about their electromagnetic cannon does not surprise us because Russia has been working on developing similar weapons for a long time," Franz Klintsevich said.

Meanwhile, Russia's Rossiyskaya Gazeta (RG) newspaper on May 31 unexpectedly revealed that Russia's electromagnetic gun, currently being researched by the Institute of High Temperature Research (under the Academy of Sciences) in Shatura, has had successful tests and achieved a speed 3 times faster than the American electromagnetic gun.

For the first time, Russia publicly released images of an electromagnetic gun.

Mr. Alexey Shurupov, director of the Institute of High Temperature Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Shatura, said:

"In laboratory tests, we tested a railgun that fired a bullet weighing just a few dozen grams at speeds of up to 6.25 km/s (22,500 km/h), which is very close to the first cosmic speed."

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, 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 stop or jam 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 dollars per unit, while each unit of electromagnetic rail cannon only costs a few tens of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, the range of the rail cannon has reached almost the same level as that of popular missiles today.

According to Dat Viet Newspaper