Japan’s railgun takes the sting out of China’s hypersonics

Japan has fired the first ship-mounted railgun at sea, a hypersonic shot that could rewrite the balance between guns and missiles in naval warfare. This month, Naval News reported that Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD), through its Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), announced the country’s first successful live firing of a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun
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