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JAPAN ANNOUNCES SUCCESSFUL SEA-BORNE RAIL GUN

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by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

Technological news, as regular readers of this website know, sometimes preoccupies us here because of its wider impact and implications, and that’s certainly the case with this article spotted and shared by K.M., for Japan has completed tests of a sea-borne railgun weapons system:

Note that the test is a first:

Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency announced on Tuesday that it had conducted its first-ever test firing of an electromagnetic railgun from a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship at sea, the first publicly disclosed test firing of a railgun at sea anywhere in the world.