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Japan has sent a defense official to the U.S. Navy to leverage on its experience for the development of a railgun, which uses electromagnetic force to fire bullets at high speeds, government sources said Tuesday.
The dispatch of the official from the Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency is aimed at absorbing the know-how of the United States, which long researched railguns, to put the weapon into practical use as soon as possible.
The Defense Ministry-affiliated agency began the development of a railgun in fiscal 2016 and conducted the world’s first offshore shooting test onboard a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel last year.
The SDF hopes that railguns, which cost less than conventional firearms that use gunpowder and whose projectiles are harder to intercept, will become a “game changer” that will change the strategic environment of warfare.
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