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This should be celebrated. Not spending money on projects that don't have a purpose is obviously the correct choice. It seems however that it's being depriorit
by tschwimmer 5y ago
This should be celebrated. Not spending money on projects that don't have a purpose is obviously the correct choice.
It seems however that it's being deprioritized in place of hypersonic missiles, which are a frightening and potentially destabilizing technology in their own right.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoChina already has several variants of hypersonic missile “carrier killers”, DF-21/26 for example; US DoD development of such technology is to maintain force parity, and long range ordinance protects high value assets (carriers) from close range combat. I hope learnings from this railgun make its way into broad military power control electronics, and trickle down to consumers if there is value.