Mary-Louise Hoffman
BAE Systems wants to offer the U.S. Army an electromagnetic railgun technology for integration onto the branch’s next fleet of armored ground vehicles, IEEE Spectrum reported Monday.
Evan Ackerman writes the Army could decide in 2016 whether its proposed Future Fighting Vehicle program will proceed.
BAE and General Atomics have developed long-range railguns for U.S. Navy ships through contracts awarded by the Office of Naval Research, according to the report.
The Navy plans to select an electromagnetic projectile launcher system that will be installed and tested on a high-speed vessel in 2016.
BAE’s railgun platform is designed to propel ammunition at a muzzle velocity of up to Mac 7.5 and hit a target more than 124 miles away, according to Ackerman’s article.
