Great Lakes Naval Station is in Northern Chicago, and is a boot camp solely for Navy personnel. Curious that they would be live-firing top-secret weapons from what is essentially a public location.
And from there to Connecticut's nearest border is about 735 miles, according to Google Maps. That trumps Warspite's and Scharnhorst's record by 49 times.
Great Lakes Naval Station is in Northern Chicago, and is a boot camp solely for Navy personnel. Curious that they would be live-firing top-secret weapons from what is essentially a public location.
And from there to Connecticut's nearest border is about 735 miles, according to Google Maps. That trumps Warspite's and Scharnhorst's record by 49 times.
Great Lakes Naval Station is in Northern Chicago, and is a boot camp solely for Navy personnel. Curious that they would be live-firing top-secret weapons from what is essentially a public location.
And from there to Connecticut's nearest border is about 735 miles, according to Google Maps. That trumps Warspite's and Scharnhorst's record by 49 times.
This... could heavily shake up the meta of naval warfare since you now have battleships with the striking range of carriers. This doesn't make carriers obsolete by a long shot since they still can do scouting a lot better than any battleship but you might see them taking a secondary role to the railgun battleship as a fleet striking arm.
...Unless those shells are only GPS-Guided and can't hit a moving target.
...Unless those shells are only GPS-Guided and can't hit a moving target.
Depends on travel time, though the comic implies it's quite a bit considering Hood has time to make tea and the gun barrels have cooled down.
Also depends on if the target knows an attack is coming. If not, it may be traveling in a straight line and allow the firing ship to just lead the target appropriately.
As for replacing the carriers, I think they will complement each other. A BB/BC may not be able to fire its railguns often, considering they need a nuclear reactor to produce the power. So the railships are for shelling from way out, but the carriers would still be required for air superiority; no railship is gonna accomplish anything if its getting bombed/torped.
Depends on travel time, though the comic implies it's quite a bit considering Hood has time to make tea and the gun barrels have cooled down.
Also depends on if the target knows an attack is coming. If not, it may be traveling in a straight line and allow the firing ship to just lead the target appropriately.
As for replacing the carriers, I think they will complement each other. A BB/BC may not be able to fire its railguns often, considering they need a nuclear reactor to produce the power. So the railships are for shelling from way out, but the carriers would still be required for air superiority; no railship is gonna accomplish anything if its getting bombed/torped.
Yep, as no battleships has been able to hold off a very determined air attack.
Depends on travel time, though the comic implies it's quite a bit considering Hood has time to make tea and the gun barrels have cooled down.
Also depends on if the target knows an attack is coming. If not, it may be traveling in a straight line and allow the firing ship to just lead the target appropriately.
As for replacing the carriers, I think they will complement each other. A BB/BC may not be able to fire its railguns often, considering they need a nuclear reactor to produce the power. So the railships are for shelling from way out, but the carriers would still be required for air superiority; no railship is gonna accomplish anything if its getting bombed/torped.
Given that a railgun shot can be fired at hypersonic speeds, a direct hit could potentially gut a ship like a turkey at close range. From a distance, a railship could engage targets, especially stationary targets like cities and bases, from a range so far out that aircraft wouldn't be able to reach them because all you'd need to do is position several rows of AA-specialized destroyers and frigates in their flight path.
You could do a LOT with capital-scale railguns on a strategic level. They'd give cruise missiles a run for their money and potentially be MUCH cheaper per shot (since a Tomahawk cruise missile is a one-off weapon that costs tens of millions of USD each).
As for replacing the carriers, I think they will complement each other. A BB/BC may not be able to fire its railguns often, considering they need a nuclear reactor to produce the power. So the railships are for shelling from way out, but the carriers would still be required for air superiority; no railship is gonna accomplish anything if its getting bombed/torped.
I think the railguns would be used in a similar fashion to that of Space Yamato’s Wavemotion cannon (the six shot one) given that they need a crap ton of energy to fire. Not exactly single use but very limited albeit extremely powerful.
And the thing about tea. It depends on what they drink, but assuming that it is simple black tea, it shouldn’t take more than 2 and a half minutes to boil and brew properly. Ingredients such as milk or sugar would bump that up slightly. But a simple brew of 2:30 or less gives the rail guns an approximate rate of fire of .4 rpm per individual gun or more.
I think the railguns would be used in a similar fashion to that of Space Yamato’s Wavemotion cannon (the six shot one) given that they need a crap ton of energy to fire. Not exactly single use but very limited albeit extremely powerful.
And the thing about tea. It depends on what they drink, but assuming that it is simple black tea, it shouldn’t take more than 2 and a half minutes to boil and brew properly. Ingredients such as milk or sugar would bump that up slightly. But a simple brew of 2:30 or less gives the rail guns an approximate rate of fire of .4 rpm per individual gun or more.
You do know you just miscalculated the fira rate of the gun through the values used for the travel time of the projectile,not the fire rate of the gun itself,right?
