The trouble with the rail gun is they can’t make them strong enough to hold together. There’s so much force they basically blow themselves apart

Hi Boys... just as a technicality, the ship Daz was referring to was the USS Cole. To the crew's credit, heroism and technical skill, that ship did not go down. That ship was saved by the crew and was able to be assisted back to port after loading it onto a transport ship.

4:23 "US Navy tested a rail gun that shot a projectile at a speed of 8,270 ft/s". Mike and Daz - "What?! ... What?!!". Lol

The Phalanx is the US's coolest creation in my opinion. The speed at which bullets come out is insane. At night it looks like you're shooting a rope of fire.

It was the USS Cole but a Russian warship, it’s flagship destroyer, was sunken by the Ukrainians more recently.

My best friend used to handle support of the Phalanx CIWS system, the last one shown with the rotating gatling gun. It shoots 20 mm armor piercing rounds at a rate of 3,000-4,500/minute, and it HAS the capacity to actually shoot for that long without running out. The job is to put up a wall of lead to defeat any inbound threats; in a demo they mounted one on a wheeled platform and shot a stationary tank, and it literally shredded it.

Ukraine used a Neptune torpedo to sink Russia's flagship battleship the Moskva.

We have each other’s backs, respect to our British brothers 🤝 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

Proud to Have the U.K. as Allies. We're like brothers, we argue, we make fun of each other, but when times get tough, we stick together.

The Moskva! Flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Slava Ukraine!

When I was watching the video about the USS Gerald R Ford, the biggest aircraft carrier in the world, they were saying there was submarines and helicopters securing the area around it. I'm sure they're never left vulnerable for an attack

A lot of times they're using aluminum shells in a steel (magnetic) casing called a "sabot" that sheds when they leave the muzzle. Or they have some steel in the core of the shell, they're still experimenting with things as technology advances faster, giving them more powerful energy storage and faster circuits to use. Lighter projectiles go faster than heavier projectiles with the same amount of energy applied, but heavier projectiles are less affected by crosswinds and wind resistance, so they're more accurate and have a longer range. Kinetic energy gets turned into heat when friction is applied, like when a shell hits a steel plate. The shell is hitting the plates so hard, it's melting the steel. Usually explosives have to be used in shells to do that. The catapult systems in the Ford class aircraft carriers work similarly to this. The plane is attached to a shuttle, which is attached to a cable, which is attached to another bit that actually gets propelled by the electromagnetic coils. It's a series of electromagnets that get turned on and off in sequence very rapidly, like a maglev train.

8:45 I can say from experience, I sweated BULLETS during the onload of missiles. It felt like everyone held their breath the entire evolution.

Mark 16:08. She forgot to say, or excluded, the "II"! The, "F-35 Lightning II", is named after the, "P-38 Lightning"! (Back then, "P", meant, "Pursuit", before it was replaced with, "F", for, "Fighter".) By the way! The numbers started over, that's why the newer one can be, "35". If I recall correctly, the "P-38", was part of the line that went as high as the, "F-111 Aardvark" & "F-117 Nighthawk". The, "F-4 Phantom II", is a part of the line with the, "F-35". Go figure, as the Aardvark, Nighthawk, and Phantom II, are retired. 🤔

Yup I thought that was my local rail gun going off. Dahlgren Division is in King George Virginia known as the Dahlgen Navel Warfare Center and it’s on the Potomac. They send out warnings to residents when they fire that thing off. In middle school in the 80s they would be testing something and the explosions would rattle our school windows (which weren’t glass by the way). There’s lots of bases on the Potomac as that river runs straight through the Washington DC area and separates Maryland and DC from Virginia. No one is ever gonna attack DC from that river, particularly not with a Rail Gun aiming down it.

I was stationed at Dahlgren 98-99 and The Navy had this then. I saw it on a rail car.

Back in the 80's my university was working on the prototype rail gun. We used a lexan slug. The first test we shot at a several inch thick piece of steel. Result was nothing happened. It was determined that the slug was going too fast and burned up in the atmosphere between the gun and the target. During the second test, the amps were dialed down. Fired the gun again and this time the slug hit the steel and then went through the steel, then through the brick wall behind the steel and then buried itself in a mound of dirt next to a highway. Everybody had a "WTH" moment. After that, a big hole was vertically dug into the ground and the gun was repositioned vertically.

Modern naval ships can't really sustain a beating from modern weapons. However they have modern defenses that prevent them from getting hit in the first place a lot of the times. Essentially they're all glass cannons... If they were made out of the strongest glass in the world

The term you were searching for was Carrier Strike Group. just remember when the military shows something it is A) old or B) already obsolete. You have to worry about what is in use and not shown.

Mark 16:20. When she said, "battleships", she meant, "warships"! Battleships, are considered to be an obsolete category of, warships. Warships, include, but are not limited to, submarines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, patrol craft, frigates, et cetera, et al. 🤓👍

Home! Thirty years at Dahlgren, Virginia. Everyone on this project was suddenly laid off. Not needing to buy, store, handle powder to propel the shell was all good. They upgraded the whole town's power grid to generate power required. Problem was their inability so shrink the equipment to fit on a ship. So they "Pulled the plug". Simple as that. I was a sonar supervisor on a sub. Yes, any Carrier group of ships will also have a submerged Sub looking for targets.

Couple of British ships in the Falkland's. The USS Cole was damaged and almost sunk. Most recently the Moskva.

Russian Moskva took a deep sea dive from Ukraine with a Neptune torpedo in the Black Sea a couple of months ago

12:16 You're thinking of the US guided missile destroyer USS Cole. Cole was refueling in Aden on October 12, 2000, when a small fiberglass boat packed with C4 and by two Al Qaeda suicide bombers exploded alongside it's hull. The explosion punched a 12-by-18 meter hole in Cole's hull and killed 17 US sailors. Cole is actually still in service, by the way. After the attack, she underwent some field repairs on scene to keep her afloat, and she was ultimately carried back to the United States by the submersible heavy-lift ship MV Blue Marlin. Cole reentered service in 2003. I believe she was only four years old when she was attacked in Aden.

I find it hilarious that the Navy Laser Gun is controlled with what is essentially a militarized console gamepad.

Former Navy guy here: all bias aside, when it comes to the United States, all of our wars are fought/won at sea because of our geographic location. And my bias/opinion is that ALL wars are the same lol (super close second is air 😬) lol

The sabot rounds they fire are made of depleted uranium. Hard as hell.

I remember I saw video somewhere where they retired a aircraft carrier ship and the army tested weapons on it see how would it sink and they use just about every weapon and they couldn't sink it so imagine the technology that have now

There is a video on sinking a retired aircraft carrier to use as a reef. Needless to say it took a beating, and they had to eventually blow it up from the inside at specific points to sink it.

There was a guy on youtube that built a mini rail gun on the back of a pickup. First shot it started smoking, and the second shot blew it apart. I might be remembering it wrong but I think he used a cluster of 9V batteries 😀

Lol OBDave. "There's an unmanned drone, laser, Bzzt"

A mile is 5,280 feet so this gun shoots projectiles about a mile and a half PER SECOND. It’s also about 4x faster than the fastest bullets fired from a gun. It’s fast.

What's scary is that they are showing this. That means they probably have something even worse they aren't showing.

My father worked on an Army version of the rail gun back in the 1980's. They were using it against tanks. His conclusion was that one should never let one's kids get into a tank.

It was actually quite recently that the US armed one of their Warships with the First ever working Rail Gun. These things have been said to be able to literally MELT there target. The Tugnesten Warhead is traveling so fast that, at Impact, the target doesn't have "time to disintegrate" but rather it will just... Melt. Obviously this is only for things that can hold up to that power. Any humans in the are of this weapon will probably just evaporate. That is not an exaggeration. The biggest "problem" with the current design of the Rail Gun is the fact that firing the gun will destroy itself... It cannot hold up to the insane amount of energy being produced with each shot. However, don't be surprised if, 20-25 years from now, the Rail Gun becomes a REAL DETERANT to Nuclear War. If these weapons are designed in the future to be aimed, or even guided, in the future, they would be able to shoot down any Nuclear Warhead there is.

12:00 What Daz is referring to was the attack on the USS Cole before the 9/11 attacks. The small dinghy blew a 4 meter hole in the side of the ship.

Carrier Strike Group - and there's always a submarine or two nearby. The more important the mission the less likely they are to surface and be seen at any point.

14:30, Cousins, trust me there was a very big amount of flying ship kit under that also. An aircraft carrier can deliver elevator systems to aircraft stored beneath its Deck.

Just to put 8,000 ft per second into context here, that is Mach 7.

Mark 7:53. Huh? Submarines, are still, warships! Just because of a silly tradition of calling them, "boats", dating back to the, USS Turtle, being carried like a mere boat, because after all it was just a mere submersible and not a true submarine, doesn't mean that today's submarine fleet are boats! So, she must have meant to say, "surface warships and submarines". 🤔

1.3K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍 Thanks for the fun information in your, DVR! 🎬 ✌️🖖🤓😎🤠 Notes: Guided Missiles, are the only ones that don't require line of sight, right? 🤔 The LASER, does it use a LASER sight to aim it? 🤔 Maybe they can bring back, Battleships, but armed with, Railguns? 🤔 That term used to mean that you had a big gun as part of a military railroad train! They were so big, that locomotives were required to move them from place to place. The Germans, were quite fond of them.

The aircraft carrier is never out there alone. Its protected by almost a dozen other vessels, which together form a carrier battle group. Destroyers, cruisers, anti-aircraft warships, frigates, submarines, and a supply ship. No two are the same, as different ships are used depending on the mission. Safe to say no one is getting within range of the carrier. And this is just ONE carrier battle group: the US Navy has 11 🇺🇸😎

" aww crap I brought an Apple cord, anyone have an android cord for the rail gun??"

When they say "the project has been put on hold for now" what they mean is "this is getting too much attention so we are moving this to area 51"

The CWIS is really something awesome to see/hear.

Thats 8270 ft per second or 5639mph or Mach 7.6 The actual projectiles are carried in a Sabot thru the Rail Gun barrel and then released for flight. The 64 Mega Joules needed to fire one of these only exists on the Navy's Crazy expensive Zumwalt Class Destroyers and Gerald Ford Class Aircraft carriers. The development of the Rail Gun by BAE Systems was said to have stopped because of the gun barrel being destroyed upon each firing of the Sabot.

Your did see the BAE on the side. It's technology a British product, though using lots of American research to be sure.

We put the rail gun on hold, but Japan is continuing the tests because they truly believe in it.

I need a 1 pound fithy jacket.

'Not heard of rail guns'? I would have definitely thought one of you would have seen the 1996 Schwarzenegger movie Eraser!

The Cole, I believe!

The science fiction show "The Expanse" makes extensive use or railguns. Lasers are unrealistic as weapons in space due the beam or pulse losing energy due to the inverse square law. In the show, missiles get the job done for a fraction of the cost. But for close in fighting, railguns are perfet for direct fire ship killing, because you can accelerate that metal rod to a fraction of a percent of the speed of light without losing potential energy or momentum during its journey.

I think you are talking about the USS cole maybe? the one that Daz was saying was hit my a "trash barge" or people pretending to be... that ship was on the same pier as mine for like 2 weeks when I was in at naval station norfolk. amazing how well it was repaired.

Yeah, a ship have a lot of defensive measures, hence why the specialized anti-ship missiles like the NSM gets a mention in the video. It have superior maneuverability which allows it to fly at sea skim level to avoid detection and perform random maneuvers before impact to confuse and dodge anti-missile defenses.

It took two weeks for them to scuttle the USS AMERICA. Great story to checkout. Modern navy ships pretty much can’t sink.

USS Cole, Suicide bombers attacked it while fueling in port in Yemen. 17 Sailors died. That was Oct. 12, 2000.

US Air force developed a satellite weapon system that's called the rods of god that drops a tungsten rod and has the force of a nuclear bomb.

The $500M price tag was not for the single gun shown in the video, but for 17 years of development by the U.S. Navy. The 2022 defense budget did not have any more money for rail gun development. They could not overcome the technical problems - massive amount of force needed wearinng out the barrel after only a couple dozen shots, the tremendous amount of power required to fire them, and the low firing speed making them un-useful for missile defense. The Navy has instead decided to concentrate on developing hypersonic missiles. The U.S. Army also did research into rail guns, however I cannot find anythign that says whether or not they are still researching it.

Not to get political but hearing him saying MYABE RUSSIA A BAD EXAMPLE is wild Ukraine showing the world Russia not the Super Power we all thought

The Moskva -- down at the bottom of the sea -- 2022.

You do realize the Germans in ww2 developed a prototype but was never implemented It was determined that it would take half the electricity of Chicago for a one time shot

The US tried to sink an air craft carrier built jsut after WW2 for research purposes, they had jets and other ships try to sink it and it took over EIGHT WEEKS to sink it and was only done with Naval demolition experts went about and cut holes in ALL of the sealed air pockets in the bottom of the shit so that the water could push to each tank and sink it, that’s how hard it was to sink and with NO defenses being used. The US Navy has a top secret armor combination they use on their ships that makes this so difficult. Needless to say they were very pleased with the difficulty of sinking a ww2 era carrier, now imagine the newest carrier jsut released. A breach in the hill if possible only takes out a single sealed area of 14 I believe. So yeah even if all the other ships and the defensive ships and the submarine sonehow fail to protect it it’s not sinking. There’s a documentary on KZfaq of that sinking of the carrier, very interesting. Man I love they Fluctus channel , awesome informative videos!

The railgun can shoot at 2.5 times the range and speed of typical artillery. And its solid tungsten projectiles prevent secondary explosive risk of storing artillery shells on friendly ships. The problem is the gun self-destruct ls after just a few shots with currently available materials until carbon nanotubes or other stronger materials become commercially available. That said it can still be used today at low power levels with similar ballistics to conventional artillery.

I was on board when they fired a sea-wiz. It was quite impressive. 30 years ago.

The Boat was the USS Cole. You should Do a Video on it. The Boat Didn't Sink.

They should mount that Railgun on the Abrams Main Battle Tank. With the high powered sights on that tank, you could not only see the target but hit it at extreme ranges

To put it into perspective, bullets fired from a rifle generally travel 2,200 to 2,600 feet per second.

Daz's face at the beginning. 😀😀 Yes, we have a gun that shoots a non-explosive projectile the size of a coffee maker at 1.5 miles per second. Check.

This gun was made by British Aerospace (BAE Systems), and was cancelled several years ago.

Eventually they'll get the railgun right, and when they do... oh man it will be a nearly unstoppable weapon. Imagine trying to shoot a bullet out of the air. Now imagine that bullet was travelling 8000 ft/sec

One thing to keep in mind about the rail gun and the power draw... the Ford class carrier has TWO nuclear reactors powering it...

The side that detects the other first will probably win the confrontation.

A similar technology is used to launch aircraft on the Ford Class Carriers. Electromagnetic rather than steam catapult.

The railgun if ever perfected will be revolitanary, 100miles away an no 1way to intercept the shot just gotta hope they miss 😭🤣🤣🤣

The "Phwoar" made it for me.

the rail gun uses electro magnetic field to propel the one yard long solid metal dart

There's a video out there showing a Tomahawk following what I assume is a road. And some civilians watching it as it passed low overhead. Dont you know they were shitting bricks and hoping it kept on going to a target far away from where they were standing.

A rail gun does not use any ordnance. It fires projectiles using electromagnetic propulsion down a rail.

I can truly see a Russian trying to light their cigarette off the end of this thing 😂. My granddad had some amazingly funny stories about the Russians he encountered in WWII

The U.S. Military News is another good channel to check out weapons

The USS Cole came under a suicide boat attack but it didn’t sink. Ukraine attacked a Russian destroyer and think that a couple months ago.

I did not miss his spinal tap reference. Just turn it up to 11

Awesome video guys

USS Cole was the ship. It was a fishing boat loaded down with explosives that took it out. Now the defensive posture of US ships in port is crucial. No one now can just get close to a Navy vessel. If they do there are threat assessment ranges they use. You get too close they'll give you an audio warning. Closer will ne warning shots. Too close and a Deadly Force can be authorized.

2 minutes of rail gun chatter for a 10:30 minute video. 😂

Daz points out why men don't care to shop for women's hygiene products for them when we can avoid it. We might grab torpex by accident!

Oh yeah the laser, the one they showed is the first gen, working prototype…it’s pretty anemic, it has to stay on target and burn it’s way in, but it’s a great proof of concept, shows it’s viable. They already announced the 2 gen one. That’s going to be produced, the new one is something like a 50 mW laser if I remember right…and is like 5 times more powerful than the early one that was shown. So it seems they are moving forward with that system for sure. Definitely will be a good addition to air defense on ships. Get like 4 of those bad boys to help with air defense. And now you’re getting somewhere.

You’d enjoy a video on the Phalynx , CIWS rotary cannonw

These ships use electronic countermeasures to confuse or spoof incoming missile, then if that doesn't work they use missiles to shoot down incoming anti-ship missiles. If that fails, they use the close in gun system you saw here. The approach would be to try to basically overwhelm the defenses with sheer volume of missiles so they either can't effectively track them all, or can't effectively shoot them all down. Imagine if you had a 90% probability of intercept and somebody fired 100 missiles at your ship, the odds say some will get through. But an an enemy has to be able to muster that amount of missiles (expensive) and be able to effectively target them.

You guys should watch the video about HMS Queen Elizabeth and HSM prince of whales too notch state of the art making the UK a global power.

Just be ok that we are on the same side. I was a MSS FC in the USN and we are very comfortable against our enemies.

everytime i see a rail gun i think of that governatpr movie "eraser"

The thing about these videos is...the US government doesn't mind them because they've advanced way past the technology by now...

The Russian flagship of their Black Sea Fleet, Moskva, was sunk only this year.

This technology is the primary reason for the massive nuclear power plant in the new American aircraft carriers.

Projectile for the rail given as made out of tungsten steel

the uss cole i think it was and they changed the rules after that

Just to let you know guys. Everyone in the US has mini rail guns for home protection. 😂😂 The 2nd amendment is awesome. You guys need to get your gun back across the pond. You all the right to own one or not own one.

It's basically works on the same principle as the Japanese bullet trains where they just float above the tracks and move forward on the force of electricity

Most people probably wouldn’t believe the stuff that’s out there that they don’t tell us about