Bring back the battleships?

[Chimera]

@Mosier

This means that until railgun energy requirements are lowered quite a bit, making a smaller gun that can fit on a cruiser-sized ship viable, we probably won’t see railguns on navy ships.

Actually, we covered that in a previous thread.

@Baracus

32 MJ is only 9 kWh.

@Chimera

Looks like the Arleigh Burke runs four 20mw gas turbines, so assuming they had one doing nothing but full time capacitor charging for the rail guns, that would be…

A mere 1.6 seconds each.

Therefore not an issue of any kind at all.