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*****[Request] Chinese Concept: Railgun Battleship class*****

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Hello,

I was wondering if there is any existing visual concept of a specialized battleship designed for using railguns or other types of heavy weapon systems for the 21st Century for China? Just curious.

So far, I found an attractive visual concept for Japan's SDF instead:
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That would be super awesome though if it happened :)
 
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Rail gun technology has yet to mature, and they consume too much electricity for a ship to power multiple guns at the same time. I just don't see it happening anytime soon. In fact, I think rail gun is a dead end technology. Electro-chemical gun is where the future lies.
 
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Rail gun technology has yet to mature, and they consume too much electricity for a ship to power multiple guns at the same time. I just don't see it happening anytime soon. In fact, I think rail gun is a dead end technology. Electro-chemical gun is where the future lies.
Then how about a nuclear-powered railgun battleship, bigger than the aircraft carrier to house enough reactors for the energy needs?
 
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Then how about a nuclear-powered railgun battleship, bigger than the aircraft carrier to house enough reactors for the energy needs?
For the price and tonnage, you can build a much more effective surface fleet. Battleships became a relic of the past for a reason, rail gun or not.
 
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For now so called rail-gun perhaps nothing than PR and some nation 'wet dream'. The problem with rail-gun concept is 'too heavy or pricey' for recent technology that exist today. So in short, any question about rail-gun such as "how, if, etc" only can answered when technology that supported this concept matured. But for this related technology become mature, it need 'concept' for first step.
 
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Hello,

I was wondering if there is any existing visual concept of a specialized battleship designed for using railguns or other types of heavy weapon systems for the 21st Century for China? Just curious.

So far, I found an attractive visual concept for Japan's SDF instead:
BB5061SAKUYA_s.jpg


The Chinese one :enjoy:
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Unlike The Japanese Cartoon material.
The Chinese one is for REAL and Under Building in Jiangnan Shipyard, Shanghai right now :enjoy:


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For China's Navy in the Future :D
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That back swept structure is totally necessary.... To reduce drag when cruising at 160 knots?
I like Sci-Fi ish designs until they went totally overboard with form over function.

Which is common in Japanese Anime styled designs.

And these plates on the side...
Kinetic barrier from Mass Effect?
 
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So, any new railgun navy ship concepts for 2020 and beyond?
 
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