The U.S. Navy has quietly moved its experimental electromagnetic railgun to the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and has been conducting new live-fire tests of the potentially game-changing weapon. This comes amid reports that the service could be finally getting close to mounting this railgun, or a derivative thereof, on a ship for at-sea testing in the Pacific Northwest.
On May 31, 2019, the Navy quietly revealed that it had sent from railgun from its original test site at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWC Dahlgren) in Virginia to White Sands, also known as WSMR. A detachment from the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC Port Hueneme) in California is now overseeing the testing in New Mexico.
Now if only the Navy could get the weapon out to sea, we'd be in business for true network-centric warfare as the Navy has long looked forward to achieving.
Somebody will get the rail gun on warships. I hope it is our side. Maybe next year. Just for testing, of course.
