Scary Reason Why Japan is Testing a New Massive Railgun 

I'm Japanese and love military, so I'll explain. One of the reasons Japan is developing railguns is to counter China's large stock of IRBMs and HGVs. The Ministry of Defense believes that "to intercept HGVs, it is important for the interceptor to also head to the rendezvous point at hypersonic speeds," and a railgun with a long range and the ability to shoot continuously is the perfect solution. Although it is not shown in the video, research is also being done on vehicle-mounted railguns, and they are being considered for the defense of air bases and ports. And as you may have noticed if you watch the video, Japan's railguns are smaller than those being researched in the United States and other countries. The caliber is about 40mm, which reduces the range and power, but it has succeeded in reducing the wear on the barrel and the power required. And this is enough for anti-aircraft use. Research is still ongoing, but practical application may not be that far away. I wrote this sentence using Google Translate, so I'm sorry if it's difficult to read.

Well done Japan 👍

Japan just needs to build a giant robot already lol

"Japan is ...". 90% of the video about Mericans.

Japan has the right to defend itself.

Sounds like a fabulous weapon if they get the power figured out! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks 😊 for the video and update.

Greetings from America. Japan is a pillar of dependable Allies. We value Japan for far more than just its social contributions. We align in all matters of military concerns.

日本は最後までやり遂げろ。

Railguns on Military ships we will likely see Modern Battleship return armed with Railguns instead of ordinary one.

Japão é uma potência. Parabéns japao😊

Design an put a small reactor on the ZW and power is no longer an issue.

Tell me again the scary reason that Japan is testing railguns !! This devolved into a discussion of US Laser and Railgun technology.

So what was the scary reason? Radioactive dinosaurs? Hexagonal space angels?

千島列島は日本の領土です!🇺🇦🤝🇯🇵 💪⚡🔥

They're getting close to Gundam

So what was the reason Japan is testing a massive railgun? What was the scary reason? Did I miss that part?

I highly doubt anyone can engineer a satellite that can survive being shot out of a railgun and still function properly.

Following WW2 Japan needed a period of years of reflection concerning their relationship with the rest of the world. They have been successful in that effort.

USA and Japan is amazing.

The US has stopped development on the rail gun. Missles are cheaper, more accurate, and flexible.

次は電子パルス爆弾の開発ですね。

From what I last read about railguns, specifically for the DDG1000 (USS Zumwalt) destroyer, they're not going anywhere soon. The Zumwalt class was specifically design with technology like the railgun in mind. Yet there have been so many issues that the initial order for ~32 Zumwalt class was cut to just three, and railguns are not anticipated for ANY of them. In addition, the projectiles have an estimated cost of $100,000 EACH, and the plasma generated by the railgun itself degrades the 'barrel' far too quickly to get any decent life out of it.

They gonna install it on their Gundam Just like Freedom Xilphias rail cannon 😂

The fact that Japan places a percentage of their massive GDP into Defense allows them to have a massive Navy and aircraft.

全て¥です。 PAC3、2には限りがある。 少ない予算でそれらを揃えるには莫大な軍事予算が掛かるから仕方ないのです……💧

Are mirrored drones a thing yet?

Japan has the right to protect itself from China's Agression and the US and NATO alliance supports Japan

preparing for the 2nd impact boys

もはや火薬で弾を飛ばす兵器は無くなり電磁石の応用となるのか？

As long as the rail ablation problem isn't solved, railguns are useless.

As I've understood it, USA abandoned the idea to have them on ships back in 2021, the primarly reason was because they shoot themselves apart from all the energy released. After 5 shots or something the whole barrel needs to be replaced. Contrary to a traditional modern artillery barrel that can take around 1000+ shots before needing replacements. That phootage of the BAE cannon is pretty old, i watched it like 7 years ago.

8:26 Now they just need to invent a portable nuclear reactor small enough to be able to provide the incredible amount of electricity it requires for each shot not to mention the barrel tends to warp and has to be replaced about every 3 shots.

🎌自衛隊🎌

Also a concealed way of using the railgun is to not use a blast and fling Ice within rubber

Jai railgun 👌 jai jai japan👌👍

機体が耐えられるか疑問だが、衛星をロケットで飛ばすより、レールガンで衛星を飛ばしたら？費用対効果的にはどちらが安上がりだろうか？

Every super dimensional fortress needs at least one.

America doesn't even have a high-speed train rail. What makes you think they stood a chance at being first? The navy cancelled that challenge.

5:32 MyAnimeList: "Toaru Kagaku no Railgun" - Misaka, Mikoto

Wow... the JDF can finally take on Godzilla now.

いつかガンダムOOクアンタなみの性能持ったやつを作って欲しい。

Railguns will be really affective at shotting at the bottom of any ship to sink it. Also, shotting were explosives and gas it located on ships and planes.

Aircraft carriers have the ability to power railguns. And to think a bit more submarines also are nuclear so they could power them too. NAMMO ramjet powered artillery would give traditional guns the range of railguns.

Utilize Multiple barrels to alternate firing, yay!

4:47 oh yeah

these videos are several years old

You don't get a flat trajectory based on the the type of 'propellant'. High velocity and low ballistic coefficient flatten trajectories, period.

日本にはゴジラがくるからなあ…対策しておかないと

Also nuclear blast are like vampires they are best defeated by wooden spears arrows the composition of the wood can be separated by the blast basically cutting through it at multiple points it's like horizontal and then vertical precision

They need to charge the projectile for it to move through the rails without wearing them down.

I thought there were major problems with railguns where their barrels get quickly worn out. Have they solved that problem?

Railguns and Laser defensive weapons in Japan.

HUMIDITY WILL AFFECT THE PERFORMANCE

"After WW2, it took years for Japan to rebuild its military": True and there were accords responsible for that, like what happened to Germany.

IDK about rail guns but a lad built a laser gun in usa that starts fires 100 yards away Imagine trying to sneak up on him Bzzz your burnt head with no eyes @@ if local youtubers can build this sort stuff AT home why own a gun ? so quite no one hears you start the neighbors BBQ 5 houses away :)

Interesting how the USA "cancelled" their railgun project, yet now Japan is making progress on the tech.

The US gave up on railgun tech and focused more on directed energy weapons. Rail guns are kind of neat.

Gasoline linear free piston gun are future

🇺🇸❤️🇯🇵🙏💪

You could hook up railgun to nuclear reactor i dunno if it would work but hey you never know

Is it just me or did it look like it was a Lego cannon when I first saw it? Lol

This was posted in March of this year of this year! Like listening to how the microwave was

Could rail guns be used in place of smaller land-based 155 mm artillery?

ESTOY TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO QUE JAPÓN SE ARME MUY BIEN 👍

Dont forget that Japan is one of the powerful country durimg WW2. They even engage war with US back in the days. Japan is technically advance when it comes on technology and its application on military.

Emp amo would be a game changer

just build massive ships that can fire 100 missiles at once, how well would railgun battleships compete against them?

Nhật bản nên tự đứng trên chính đôi chân của mình.

I was almost positive that for military applications they used a mixture of chemical lasers

Japan already have Voltes 5 😂

この射程の短い兵器は迎撃用です。なので攻撃をする為に射程を伸ばす必要はありません。必要なのは精度と瞬間的な速さだけです。防衛構想の一つの手段であり特に驚く事はないです。攻撃を仕掛けない限り恐れる事もありません(o^^o)

FF7 Junon Canon?

Ballistic missile suddenly becomes obsolete and useless ? Impossible. It sounds like SF.

こんなに大きいレールガン見ると、エヴァンゲリオンを彷彿とさせる 使徒対策の様だ！

Are there any fully automatic rail guns?

LEGO®️ Technic has out done itself.

😅I thought this must be from 4 or 5 years ago but it was put out 11 days ago. Zumwalt destroyers are a dead program and so is the US Navy rail gun program for now.

Japan was once an industrial powerhouse and is still leaders in many technological fields today - except the military. Thanks to Winnie Xitler, Japan is now manufacturing missiles for the US (that's 100% trust from the US as missile technologies are some of most sought-after and highly guarded secrets) and is well on her way to become a regional military might. Together with the US/Taiwan alliance, it will be a formidable force not even Winnie & Pootin can brush aside.

Love this Minecraft contraption

Only my railgun

It's for the Gundam

The japanese got the tech from the US given their defense reliabilities contract. Given the US has already completed its testing years ago and is in the last stages of production id say they gave the japanese info from like 2015 lol cuz they shoulda been figured it out by now if they gave them up to date research. US has fixed the power supply, the issue being japans ships or infrastructure cant generate the power needed for multiple shots i.e they need bigger ships with full nuclear energy support like US carriers/Battleships. They have more than enough capabilities they just need bigger more powerful ships that can actually use the weapon.

Obviously it's for Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, etc.

Could this be the weapon to surpass, Metal Gear?

We understandably see the railgun in many defensive strategies. However... This should be immediately attached to their ongoing Gundam project.

I don't care about the reason, I'm here to see that fcking cannon!

레일건 ..포신 1회용인되 ..몇번이나 사용하려고 ..

Internal combustion chamber in automotive are gun chamber.

Russians and Chinese ask to announce when it is done in order to get the blue prints. Thank you!

China's electromagnetic railgun has long reached a kinetic energy of 64 megajoules and a range of more than 350 kilometers. The projectile Japan tested this time was only 320 grams, and its kinetic energy was only 5 megajoules.

11:23 “You may fire when ready.” Tarkin, you have no authority whatsoever in the US military. Okay, seriously though writing that on the turret of a war ship is a real cartoon villain move.

Is not a "scary reason".... is China and N Korea

I think I built one of these out of Legos once.

Next is mecha godzilla

The USA doesn’t have one of the largest and well funded Defense forces in the world. It is the largest and most well funded in the world in fact in the history of the world. By a huge margin.

I fucking love japan... ❤

Kaiju!

Weren’t the Zumwalt ships already retired because they couldn’t be made sea worthy? A poster child to the incredible inefficiencies the U.S. Navy creates.

LCS, its supposed modules, Zumwalt and its supposed "super weapons" are and were an industry grift to put it charitably. We could have revamped the fleet; heads should have rolled and can I hear clawback?

What is the scary reason?