Scary Reason Why Japan is Testing a New Massive Railgun
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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.
Just wait until they start equiping tanks with them.
Yeah the us was for some reason stuck on using rail guns in place of missiles or big battleship guns. Where lighter target guns would be far easier.
Japan has the right to defend itself.
Every country the has the right to defend itself from the warmonger, the bully and the occupier.
Who's going to attack him,
China, Korea or others Asian countries?
If China wants to attack Japan he doesn't have to wait until 2024, really stupid.
Ya know what?
Japan can do what ever they want to do..rights have nothing to do with anything. This isn't a 1 world government that says it is OK to do something
That is the difference between you and I. I think for myself. You only think what you are told to.
Agree 1,000,000 %
All nations have right to defend themselves, but nations with ambition to acquire neighbors territories should not be encouraged to develop offensive capabilities. Nations with repeated past war crimes and unapologetic past war crimes should be watched cautiously.
Well done Japan 👍
THANKS
"Japan is ...". 90% of the video about Mericans.
America actually doesn’t come into the video until the halfway mark so id say it’s 50/50
Japan and the United Kingdom, should send a message to the Americans to stop making so much fucking noise. I have heard stories coming out of Japan about them being disrupted by Americans miss-behaving there (drunk, crashing aircraft, making noise etc). Over here in the East of the UK, where I have live; the aircraft noise has made our lives utter Hell. I have no issue with America flying aircraft and working with us as alley, but I just want them to fly over the god damn ocean and try and keep the noise down!
The U.S gave up on Railgun's in 2021 to focus its limited resources on hypersonic missiles instead.
@@thevikingwarrior -- _this_ American has been to Japan many times, not to mention all over Europe, throughout the UK, etc.
Are there some Americans who misbehave while overseas? Sure. The same goes for Brits, Aussies, Germans, et al -- whom I have personally witnessed being loud, drunken idiots -- especially in places like Amsterdam and Bangkok. In Japan? Not so much. Most Americans (and Brits, et al) are fairly quiet and respectful there.
As for aircraft noise: all jets are pretty similar when it comes to the noise levels, and let's not forget that the jet engine was a British invention, so you can thank your fellow Briton Frank Whittle for the noise. The RAF has over 300 jets and nearly as many helis, so it's not like if the yanks left everything would be peaceful in the skies over Britain.
@@bricology You are seriously miss-interpreting my comment. This wasn't intended as a British person attacking Americans comment. I actually like many aspects of America. I just want thier airforce staff to have some respect over our country! Like many countries, there is good and bad in America; unfortunately this particular problem is bloody shit!
Japan just needs to build a giant robot already lol
Gangsta till we jaguar china
横浜に ガンダム あるよ♪
@@user-px2cp5xr8n that's cool.
Maybe if they didnt abandon they technology industry they could.
Build a gundam with nuclear fussion engine please
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.
Amazing huh when you realize that just 70 odd years ago we were actively trying to wipe each other out,, especially that only five years after WW2 Japan heavily supported us during the Korean War!,
Amazing huh when you realize that just 70 odd years ago we were actively trying to wipe each other out,, especially that only five years after WW2 Japan heavily supported us during the Korean War!,
Amazing huh when you realize that just 70 odd years ago we were actively trying to wipe each other out,, especially that only five years after WW2 Japan heavily supported us during the Korean War!,
Amazing huh when you realize that just 70 odd years ago we were actively trying to wipe each other out,, especially that only five years after WW2 Japan heavily supported us during the Korean War!,
Amazing huh when you realize that just 70 odd years ago we were actively trying to wipe each other out,, especially that only five years after WW2 Japan heavily supported us during the Korean War!,
千島列島は日本の領土です!🇺🇦🤝🇯🇵 💪⚡🔥
Ur a bot
Japan is us territory 🎉 we own you
@@scouts8081ありがとう！
🇯🇵🤝🇺🇦 ❤️💪
ウクライナは関係ないだろ。歴史を知る日本人として恥ずかしい
@user-zq3qp8bt1x
日本はアメリカの領土だ。
俺たちがお前らを有してるんだぜって言われてるんですよ。
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.
Guided missiles and aircraft will always be more flexible and have greater range than a fixed gun on a slow ship. Battleships were obsolete relics almost 100 years ago, Pearl Harbor proved that. There will never be another ship that uses gun turrets as its primary firepower, let alone a massive battleship, useless for anything else. Modern navies use multi-role vessels, and have layered defenses.
@@LoserInChief
1) Pearl Harbour was meant like political trap so that US can start war with Japan without being one declaring it. Battleships in PH were just sactifices for that provocation.
2) Almost all airplane battleship kills in WW2 happened in situations, where one side had major or total air superiority.
3) To sink Tirpitz, Brits needed more than 5 operations and over 800 tons of bombs total to sink
4) Sinking Yamato took fighter wings of 4 US aircraft carriers, so it was 1 vs 4 fight. Musashi perished in a fight with fighter wings from 5 carriers.
Real reason why battleships failed in WW2 was not that they were obsolete, but because fleet commanders either used their battleships incorrectly or acted indecisive trying to "spare them for the final battle", hiding in fjords or lagoons and doing other stuff. In other words purely human factor.
@@Taira-no_Noritune And yet, no navy has used a Battleship in active duty in decades, nor are any planned to be built. None of what you said changes that, or the fact that BB are not a valuable asset in a modern navy, railguns or no.
@@LoserInChiefIt had more to do with politics. Before crisis of first half of 20th century, there was system of what was known as Great Powers, that competed against each other but also held civilized world in ppolitical and military balance. Battleships were a product of naval arms race between those Great Powers. After WWII, Great Powers largely ceased being great and old system got replaced with system of "East bloc vs West bloc", which resulted in less independence for countries, changes to military doctrines etc. Only countries that could potentially produce a battleship were US and USSR, but former just kept their WWII battleship operational as long as cold war lasted, while latter just did not have the right know-how and deemed it to be too costly to be worth it.
Nowadays, the status quo system is changing again and we might soon find ourselves in a world more similar than pre-WWI once again.
Integrate it into a satellite like the rods from God.
This was posted in March of this year of this year! Like listening to how the microwave was
Tell me again the scary reason that Japan is testing railguns !! This devolved into a discussion of US Laser and Railgun technology.
A silly diatribe can be easily passed off as an explanation with the right audience. Shame how common that audience has become.
It's scary because they have a functional Gundam for ground fights and will equip them with railguns ! 😁😁
They forgot to put in that bit to the final edit. The scary reason is Japan’s Navy has detected signs of Godzilla waking up from his slumber in the Sea of Japan.
it's to counter hypersonic missles made by china and north korea.
コレが実際を仮定して数十年長引く戦争を僅か一週間で国を終わらすことの出来る兵器
Sounds like a fabulous weapon if they get the power figured out! 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤ Thanks 😊 for the video and update.
The Zumwalt class destroyer (DDG 1000) was specifically design for inclusion of railguns. However, there have been so many issues with railguns and other issues that the initial plan for 32 Zumwalt class ships was cut to just 3 before the program was cancelled. Of the three existing Zumwalt class ships, NONE are planned to actually have a railgun installed. In addition, the projectile cost estimate was of $100,000 EACH. If that's not bad enough, the plasma generated by abruptly discharging so much power eroded the 'barrel' too quickly to warrant its implementation. As neat as it sounds, railguns will rake far longer to become operational in field than, say, MEGAwatt class lasers.
Interesting how the USA "cancelled" their railgun project, yet now Japan is making progress on the tech.
So what was the scary reason?
Radioactive dinosaurs?
Hexagonal space angels?
Is that a jojo reference?
Japão é uma potência.
Parabéns japao😊
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.
Design an put a small reactor on the ZW and power is no longer an issue.
Possibly, a dedicated reactor, for the rail systems.
@@zapa1pnt heck just use one from a submarine... no new design needed.
I think that was the original plan. Time for a TMSR modular reactor.
.. The US supposedly has two Battleship hulls kept functional by order of congress.. so why talk about the zumwalt at all?
From all that's been said the zumwalt class was/is defective.. also well Battleships have always been more a long range bombardment vessel anyways, more so than an actual effective sea vs sea battler. Bigger ship more space for power and ammo and so on. I'd think it would all be about cheap sustainable long range bombardment capability.
I highly doubt anyone can engineer a satellite that can survive being shot out of a railgun and still function properly.
Japan has the right to develop counter-Godzilla measures. I mean, how else are we supposed to make the next movie??
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？
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.
😂they never apologize for it
@@6haha Like the US ...
@@alcapone9550 so it will be remembered by Chinese people forever.
@@6haha Therefore it is easy for the Chinese Communist Party to control the people.
@@6haha
Just don’t understand why Chinese people cannot use the internet to find out how many times the Japanese has apologized to the Chinese!?🤔🤔🤔
So what was the reason Japan is testing a massive railgun? What was the scary reason? Did I miss that part?
There is no scary reason, it is just a military research project and they are not our enermy.
The fact that Japan places a percentage of their massive GDP into Defense allows them to have a massive Navy and aircraft.
If I were the Chinese, I would not want to fight the Japanese Navy. They have excellent ships and weapons and they mean business.
It means they WILL have that, but that has literally just begun. Given their population apocalypse - and their awesome anime predilection for robotic soldiers and weapons - I'd say much of that money will go directly into that kind of military tech.
The US protects Japan from China.
And what percentage of GDP is that ⇔ 1.1% vs US of 3.5%. Now if you sum-up that over 75 years, Japan has had it easy and basically let the US taxpayers pay the bill. Now that China is outspending Japan over 10 to 1 (in equivalence ratio), the resources that Japan is expending is just sad.
The US protects Japan from China.
Japan has the right to protect itself from China's Agression and the US and NATO alliance supports Japan
Japan is arming itself to expell the American occupiers... Anyone thinking Japanese military has anything remote to do with China is being fooled....
IGNORANT
@@user-wj1lc8co4r Who You?Every freedom loving nation has the right to protect itself according to the United Nations Laws
Why do you think US and NATO not a threat to Japan independence?
Bullshit, there is no Agression of China. It´s a lie of the japanes marionettes of USA.
The US has stopped development on the rail gun.
Missles are cheaper, more accurate, and flexible.
The projectile was only $100K vs $200k to $2 million.
May be a reduction in size of the projectile and the use as a shore battery only is a better scenario.
ドローンなら５０万円で
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.
次は電子パルス爆弾の開発ですね。
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.
Not really, they will never forget the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki.
"After WW2, it took years for Japan to rebuild its military": True and there were accords responsible for that, like what happened to Germany.
¹11111
They're getting close to Gundam
or lazers of sharks ?
Wow... the JDF can finally take on Godzilla now.
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.
That's all due to economics of scale. If the original order for 32 did go, the ammo price would be normal.
@@vxxed8668 Saying the price would 'drop to normal' is thoroughly unsubstantiated. You should do some research before doing so. Why?........
#1) Linear induction accelerators likely require extraordinarily precise tolerances
#2) The high temperature plasma likely requires very specialized materials, such as a custom alloy of tungsten, inconel, invar, etc. to reduce melting, expansion, etc.
#3) The projectile is surrounded by a sabot to guide the projectile before it's discarded. It too will be of a specialized construction.
I think it's because that ship is ugly AF.
- missiles hypersonic were just superior in range and everything else
- normal guns are still very powerful especially given smart shells
Railguns just simply didn't deliver enough value but there wasn't issue with technology like Japan has shown.
They may have niche roles still like counter hypersonic defense
Yes but producing for 3 as opposed to the original 32, that's 1 order of magnitude. Everything you said is correct, but seems you're both on slightly different pages. @@gregparrott
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……💧
preparing for the 2nd impact boys
5:32
MyAnimeList:
"Toaru Kagaku no Railgun" - Misaka, Mikoto
The anime ... A Certain Scientific Railgun .. reviews the pros and cons of railgun technology where a hypothetical human railgun Misaka fights opponents with her railgun skillsets
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)
What you have to fear is when Japan builds Giants Robots and genetically create Godzilla
Every super dimensional fortress needs at least one.
They need to charge the projectile for it to move through the rails without wearing them down.
Also a concealed way of using the railgun is to not use a blast and fling Ice within rubber
You don't get a flat trajectory based on the the type of 'propellant'. High velocity and low ballistic coefficient flatten trajectories, period.
They gonna install it on their Gundam
Just like Freedom Xilphias rail cannon 😂
横浜の ガンダム に？
As long as the rail ablation problem isn't solved, railguns are useless.
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。
日本にはゴジラがくるからなあ…対策しておかないと
I thought there were major problems with railguns where their barrels get quickly worn out. Have they solved that problem?
Are mirrored drones a thing yet?
Like make all the part surface chrome ?
@@justyuyun1557 I saw a car just like that, full chrome. I guess it's not expensive and can be done by governments. But it would make aircraft more susceptible to radar
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？
I was almost positive that for military applications they used a mixture of chemical lasers
Utilize Multiple barrels to alternate firing, yay!
these videos are several years old
Railguns and Laser defensive weapons in Japan.
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.
4:47 oh yeah
just build massive ships that can fire 100 missiles at once, how well would railgun battleships compete against them?
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
Toothpaste is a rather effective way to make a smoke grenades as well I find
LEGO®️ Technic has out done itself.
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.
You could hook up railgun to nuclear reactor i dunno if it would work but hey you never know
Jai railgun 👌 jai jai japan👌👍
Obviously it's for Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, etc.
The US gave up on railgun tech and focused more on directed energy weapons. Rail guns are kind of neat.
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！
Could rail guns be used in place of smaller land-based 155 mm artillery?
There are still many technological hurdles to overcome: miniaturisation, power consumption, railgun wear.
🎌自衛隊🎌
ESTOY TOTALMENTE DE ACUERDO QUE JAPÓN SE ARME MUY BIEN 👍
Internal combustion chamber in automotive are gun chamber.
Ballistic missile suddenly becomes obsolete and useless ?
Impossible.
It sounds like SF.
HUMIDITY WILL AFFECT THE PERFORMANCE
Gasoline linear free piston gun are future
🇺🇸❤️🇯🇵🙏💪
Emp amo would be a game changer
FF7 Junon Canon?
Love this Minecraft contraption
Redstone arrow accelerator lol
I don't care about the reason, I'm here to see that fcking cannon!
It's for the Gundam
Nhật bản nên tự đứng trên chính đôi chân của mình.
Are there any fully automatic rail guns?
Yes and have been for yrs, designed for shooting ( objects ) in space, not on Earth.
Space based, fully automatic rail guns? Intelligence will increase!
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.
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.
Russians and Chinese ask to announce when it is done in order to get the blue prints. Thank you!
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 :)
We understandably see the railgun in many defensive strategies. However... This should be immediately attached to their ongoing Gundam project.
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.
Japan already have Voltes 5 😂
Only my railgun
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.
Why is the danger word on the laser written in english
I think I built one of these out of Legos once.
Because they had some leftover legos...
I fucking love japan... ❤
railguns have a special problem: because of the high speed of the "bullet" in the barrel is "destoyed" after a few shots. Untill that problem is not resolved, the railgun is out there useless.
Is not a "scary reason".... is China and N Korea
Kaiju!
Why is an unanswered question.
looks like a lego gun
Next is mecha godzilla
Someone needs to change the hinky generic "this is serious" music
Думаю 100мв лазер в перспективе можно научить сбивать артиллерийские снаряды, и тогда против такой армии ни одна не устоит
😅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.