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Originally Posted by jyl
The railgun projectiles will be guided too, won't they? So, not really dirt-cheap.
If they can only be installed on nuclear powered ships (?) then how much does that limit their use? How many nuclear cruisers and destroyers do we have - any? I'm thinking no way you'd bring an aircraft carrier inshore to hit shore targets - the enemy would happily make that trade all day long.
I'm not saying we shouldn't develop the weapon - I think we should develop every interesting weapon, because the goal of R&D is military dominance in 20 and 30 years, and who knows what will happen. I'm just unclear what the application is or will be.
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we have lots of nuke subs and fleet carriers
we built 7 nuke cruisers but high costs led to their being scraped post cold wars end