Japan Becomes 1st Country Ever To Fire Electromagnetic Railgun From An Offshore Vessel::Japan has successfully test-fired a medium-caliber maritime electromagnetic railgun from an offshore platform, as it continues to advance its defenses in the face of burgeoning regional security threats.
Damn, I was just researching EM based weaponry for a fiction book. Didn’t expect to see this kind of news for a few years based on what I found.
Been possibly for a long time. Whether or not it’s a practical solution is another story.
Eh, I could hand wave the important bits behind “war-time research and development in a universe where physics isn’t exactly the same”, but it wouldn’t really work for the story I want to tell. I want it to highlight a bit of an important side character, so if I’m hand waving their area of expertise, it falls apart.