After the 16 years of development of naval forces (Navy), the United States conceived to abandon the rails, reports The Drive.
“in the project budget for 2022 fiscal year, published on May 28, 2021, within the framework of a larger US military request, two separate articles related to the research and development of rails are reset,” the publication writes.
The Drive notes that the creation of a rail gun began in 2005, and financing the relevant program was carried out on a number of different articles.
Railotron work is planned to be collapsed in the current fiscal year. “The technologies achieved and rail data will be documented and saved,” the current document says.
The publication reminds that as of 2017, during terrestrial tests, the rails turned out to be able to throw off the shells, accelerating to the speed of more than six Mach numbers. It was planned that ammunition would be able to hit the targets in the air and the sea at a distance of about 260 kilometers, but over time “the status of this program and any results that it could be achieved, become worried less clear.”
The publication notes that the US Navy today is working on a super-speed Hyper-Velocity Projectile projectile project (HVP), the design of which is based on the ammunition from the rail, but it allows that the rail will still be able to get support in the fiscal year 2022, but it doubts that This will happen.
In September 2020, the WEAPONS OF WORLD channel published on Youtube video teachings of the US Armed Forces, on which the 155-millimeter Artillery Installation Advanced Gun System (AGS), installed on the M110 Howitzer self-propelled Gaubitsa, intercepted the BQM-167 Sketer air target, imitating Russian wing rocket.