{"id":2908,"date":"2018-04-27T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2018-04-27T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T17:43:09","slug":"el-us-army-tambien-desea-incorporar-el-railgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"El US Army tambi\u00e9n desea incorporar el “Railgun”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/u>El US Army ha estado siguiendo de cerca el desarrollo del \u201cCa\u00f1\u00f3n Electromagn\u00e9tico\u201d\u00a0– (Railgun) por parte de la US Navy, y ha decidido que tambi\u00e9n desea incorporarlo a su arsenal de sistemas de artiller\u00eda. Una de las seis prioridades de modernizaci\u00f3n de esa Fuerza Terrestre, son los \u201cFuegos de Precisi\u00f3n de Gran Alcance\u201d y eso es exactamente lo que hace el “Railgun”. Dispara proyectiles guiados de hipervelocidad, a distancias que como m\u00ednimo duplican el alcance de la artiller\u00eda convencional actual.<\/p>\n

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The Army has been spying\u00a0Navy\u00a0<\/a>work on an electromagnetic \u201crail gun<\/a>\u201d and it wants one for its warfighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The rail gun\u00a0technology<\/a>, while yet to be fielded despite decades of research and work, offers a tantalizing prospect \u2014 cheap, hypersonic projectiles that travel farther and faster than existing artillery and missile systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced in March that it had been awarded a contract from the Army to evaluate and mature the rail gun tech to support the Army\u2019s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Command, according to a company release.<\/p>\n

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The company has been at work on a Navy rail gun for ships for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0The potential Army system would give commanders a cost-effective way to knock down \u201caircraft, rocket and cruise missile raids as well as other threats,\u201d according to the release.<\/div>\n
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\u201cUsing hypersonic projectiles, a rail gun provides the soldier with shorter time to target, achieves effectiveness at longer range, and provides a lower cost per engagement than conventional interceptors,\u201d said Mike Rucker, director of Programs for Missile Defense Systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Army has put increased fires lethality among its top priorities for modernizing the force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A 2017 Pentagon report documented heavy investment by Iran, Russia, North Korea, China and others in ballistic and cruise missile programs with long range capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s hit everything from better mortars, light and heavy artillery to missile defense systems, and a push into hypersonic projectile research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hypersonic is defined as traveling at Mach 5, which is 3,800 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rail gun systems can achieve hypersonic speeds by using electromagnetic energy to create a field between two rails that then fires the projectile between the rails.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to an Army release:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cRail guns use two parallel metallic rails with a sliding armature between them that holds the projectile. When a large electromagnetic pulse is introduced to the rails, a powerful magnetic field is created that propels the armature and projectile along the rails at hypervelocity. Velocity depends upon the power of the pulse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Railgun projectiles are non-explosive and safer to manufacture, transport and store. Velocity is adjustable shot to shot, conserving power. Projectiles are guided to the target after leaving the launcher, and reach a target faster. At 100 yards, rail guns sound no louder than a .30-06 rifle firing. What little \u2018smoke\u2019 they create is actually plasma particulates or dust.\u201c<\/p>\n

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Recent testing showed speeds of up to two kilometers per second, or nearly twice the speed of current conventional artillery, according to the release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Army facilities such as Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, have been used to test the Navy rail gun since as early as 2008, according to an Army release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And the United States is not alone in its research and identified needs for this type of weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Online images that surfaced in February show what appears to be a Chinese ship-mounted rail gun, according to Army Times\u2019 sister publication Defense News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If accurate, that would be the first known instance of a nation mounting a rail gun to a ship and taking it to sea, Defense News reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fuente:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.armytimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El US Army ha estado siguiendo de cerca el desarrollo del \u201cCa\u00f1\u00f3n Electromagn\u00e9tico\u201d\u00a0– (Railgun) por parte de la US Navy, y ha decidido que tambi\u00e9n… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}