Now, what makes me cringe is when they take the big gun railgun tech and start scaling it down to PIVAD level. Talk about game changing air defense. I imagine the first application would be ship-borne air defense (Phalanx on crack steroids) since power wouldn't be an issue. Marry that range to radar tracking/slaving, and you end up with BvR ASM-killing capability. With enough range, you have ASM-Carrying-Aircraft killing capability.
Holy sh-.
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