Shoot, buddy- Get Jerry Bull's HARP tech dusted off and you won't need to depend on MRBMs in Ukraine and Poland to first strike Moscow any more. Plus, since the Israeli dusted him three decades + back, you won't have to pay him any royalties.
Gerald Bull was a real piece of work and I do find his HARP work facinating. We really should be taking advantage of advances in technology to fully leverage the power of guns, Just for fun I figured out the flight time and distance down range of the record beaking Martlet 2 shot on November 18, 1966 that achieved a 111 miles apogee (height) - about 3 minutes to max height (apogee) and 6 minutes and 20 seconds total flight time and 91 miles downrange
The guns Bull was working towards before he was killed were specified to have substantially longer ranges, though they would have made poor weapons systems for all the well known and widely discussed reasons.
Since electromechanical "rail" guns have not matured into robust and combat capable systems & LASER/particle beams have also failed to reach deployable states, we are left with propellant systems for long range military applications. It makes little sense to throw away the (expensive) prime mover on every shot as missile weapons do so hyper velocity guns are economically attractive for those applications they can fit.
Still, some established players in military procurement might not want to see their investments in research & production facilities devalued before they reach planned end of life on those facilities or be forced into R&D to develop newer techniques- As long as you control both the market and finance the selection of the politically chosen cadre deciding funding of your buyer, why throw away money? While "war is a racket", military procurement is a BUSINESS.
Shoot, buddy- Get Jerry Bull's HARP tech dusted off and you won't need to depend on MRBMs in Ukraine and Poland to first strike Moscow any more. Plus, since the Israeli dusted him three decades + back, you won't have to pay him any royalties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP
Gerald Bull was a real piece of work and I do find his HARP work facinating. We really should be taking advantage of advances in technology to fully leverage the power of guns, Just for fun I figured out the flight time and distance down range of the record beaking Martlet 2 shot on November 18, 1966 that achieved a 111 miles apogee (height) - about 3 minutes to max height (apogee) and 6 minutes and 20 seconds total flight time and 91 miles downrange
The guns Bull was working towards before he was killed were specified to have substantially longer ranges, though they would have made poor weapons systems for all the well known and widely discussed reasons.
Since electromechanical "rail" guns have not matured into robust and combat capable systems & LASER/particle beams have also failed to reach deployable states, we are left with propellant systems for long range military applications. It makes little sense to throw away the (expensive) prime mover on every shot as missile weapons do so hyper velocity guns are economically attractive for those applications they can fit.
Still, some established players in military procurement might not want to see their investments in research & production facilities devalued before they reach planned end of life on those facilities or be forced into R&D to develop newer techniques- As long as you control both the market and finance the selection of the politically chosen cadre deciding funding of your buyer, why throw away money? While "war is a racket", military procurement is a BUSINESS.