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Railgun Program
Overview
Captain Mike Ziv, USN
Program Manager,
Directed Energy and Electric Weapons
Program Office (NAVSEA 05T/PMS405)
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Next Generation
Gun Weapon System

HVP from
5 Gun

Distribution Statement C: See front cover.

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How Railgun Works

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Kinetic Energy Conversion

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Multi-Mission Railgun
Railgun Development Focus

32 Mega Joule Laboratory Launcher

Technology Proven at 32MJ Muzzle Energy

Focus shifting to rep rate operations
Tactical Barrel & Mount Compatibility
Rep Rate 32MJ Launcher & Test Stand
Establish Manufacturing with BAE Systems
Validate Bore Life during Rep Rate Ops
Rep Rate 32MJ Gun Mount (100NM capable)
Leverage Navy Gun Mount Experience
Integrate HVP Handling & Initialization
Design for Pulsed Power Transfer & Cabling

Warfighting Payoff

Transition to Tactical Mount

Responsive, Wide Area Coverage

Precision fires via guided munitions
Deep magazines cost effective
Enhanced safety with Low Collateral Damage
Multi-mission, Multi-Barrel Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP)

HVP & Gun Systems equates to Distance

32MJ Mount with

Train & Elevate
Rep Rate
32MJ Test Stand

20 MJ Railgun 50 nautical miles

32 MJ Railgun 110 nautical miles

32MJ Barrel
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Advanced Energy Systems

Pulsed Forming Network

High Density Power Electronics

High Voltage
Charging Module

Actively Cooled Rep-Rate

Pulsed Power Module

Charging Power Supplies for Advanced Energy Systems

Converting Ships Power to High Voltage for Electric Weapons
Supports Electric Drive, Railguns, Lasers & Radars

Battery Energy Storage

Lithium Ion
Battery Packet

Pulsed Power in ISO Container

for Mobility & Demo Platform
Flexibility

Capacitor based PFN

Higher Energy Density lowers shipboard volume/footprint
Rep rate operation & thermal management

System / Ship Integration

Battery Energy Storage in ISO

Container
for Mobility & Demo Platform
Flexibility

Energy Storage to buffer Prime Generators

Ready Reserve Energy for response to quick threats
Requires close Ship Safety Design, Test & Monitoring

Dynamic power sharing across platform

Designing with Space and Weight Constraints
Assessing Thermal and EM Field management

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Hypervelocity Projectile
Mk 34 GWS

Missions

Railgun

Technologies
Anti-Air

NSFS - Strike

High-G Electronics Packaging

Miniaturization

Missiles

Anti-Surface

Weapon
Systems
4 Weapon
Systems

Thermal Protect

5-Inch Mk 45

Railgun

155 mm AGS

155 mm

Adv. Energetics

High speed launch enables effectiveness

High density electronics enables packaging & survivability
High computational power enables advanced tracking & GNC algorithms
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Tactical Flight Body

Shot Number 515 in 2009

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Downrange Flight
Shot Number 515 in 2009

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Lethality Demonstration

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System Modularity Concept

Technology
Development

Launcher

Energy Storage

Technology Demonstrations
JHSV Demo

Marinization

System
Deployment

TRL 6

GPS Targeting

Hardware
Expertise
Software
Program Mgmt
Contracts

Pulse Forming Network

HVP

System
Acquisition

Sea-Based
Applications

Common
TRL 6
Modular
Weapon
System
Architecture
Land-Based
Applications

Closed-Loop Fire Control

Stressing Missile Threats
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Multiple
Deployment
Options

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FY16 At-Sea Test of Railgun

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AT-Sea Testing Update

The U.S. Navy will fire its first-ever Railgun at
sea on the Eglin Air Force Base Maritime Test
Range in late Summer of 2016 aboard JHSV5,
USNS TRENTON
The test will fire a GPS-Guided Hypervelocity
Projectile from a Railgun at a fixed over-thehorizon target
Further, it will validate system performance
models for a dynamic Railguns
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Navy Railgun Contacts

CAPT Michael Ziv,

Mr. Charles Garnett,

PMS405 Program Manager, NAVSEA 05T/DCTO;

Naval Sea Systems Command
Directed Energy/Electric Weapons (PMS405)
1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20376
Phone: 703.696.5752
Cell: 202.306.0976
Michael.Ziv@navy.mil

Railgun Lead Systems Engineer

Naval Sea Systems Command
Directed Energy/Electric Weapons (PMS405)
1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20376
Phone: 540.653.3186
Charles.R.Garnett@navy.mil

Dr. Elizabeth DAndrea,

CDR Jason Fox,

APM, Land-Based Applications and Testing;

Naval Sea Systems Command
Directed Energy/Electric Weapons (PMS405)
4048 Higley Road, Suite JWAC
Dahlgren, VA 22448
Phone: 540.653.5563
Cell: 202.423.3290
Elizabeth.Dandrea@navy.mil

APM, Railgun Ship Integration and Test

Naval Sea Systems Command
Directed Energy/Electric Weapons (PMS405)
1333 Isaac Hull Ave SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20376
Phone: 540.653.9815
BB: 540.621.6025
Jason.Fox1@navy.mil

Mr. Adam Jones,

Mr. Roger Ellis,

HVP Program Officer;

Office of Naval Research (Code 352)
875 N. Randolph Street
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: 703.696.9504
Charles.R.Garnett@navy.mil

Railgun Program Officer;

Office of Naval Research (Code 352)
875 N. Randolph Street
Arlington, VA 22203
Phone: 703.696.9504
Roger.Ellis@navy.mil
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Not a New Concept

Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee submitted first patent
for a Railgun on 1 April 1919 for an Electric Apparatus
for Propelling Projectiles
Patent no. 1,421,435 issued 4 July 1922

UK, Russia, China and U.S. Army (among others) have

been working on Railguns for decades
Current U.S. Navy program began in earnest in 2005

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32MJ World Record Event

EMLF Dahlgren, VA Dec 2010

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System View

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HVP Modularity Concept

GUN SYSTEM

PROJECTILE
(SABOTED & SUB-CALIBER)

MISSION &
WARHEAD TYPE

TRANSITION
OPPORTUNITES

GAME
CHANGING
CAPABILITY

NSFS HE

113 Barrels
(PEO IWS)

GUIDED
26 41 NM
NSFS/ASCM/ASuW

NSFS 20MJ HE
NSFS/AAW -KE
ASuW - KE

FUTURE
(PMS405/PEO IWS)

GUIDED
50 - 100 NM
NSFS/CMD/ASuW/
Future Threats

NSFS HE

6 Barrels
(PEO IWS)

GUIDED
40 NM
NSFS/ASCM/ASuW

Ground Fires HE

800 ARMY
300 MARINE
ASSETS

GUIDED
17 NM
Fires/CMD

5 MK 45 MOD 2/4

20 32 MJ
Railgun

155 mm AGS

155 mm

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National Partners

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