kwaigonegin
Colonel
I don't know about the DD 27 however the flt III Burkes do not have enough power generation for rails. Max output is still,less than 20 MWatts which is not enough.
I don't know about the DD 27 however the flt III Burkes do not have enough power generation for rails. Max output is still,less than 20 MWatts which is not enough.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
Although this is just a personal speculation without much to back it up, I do not think Japan would be recieving AMDR due to the fact that Japan had declined joint development project that had been made by the US so the 27DDG would probably be only be equipped with SPY-1. As for the rail gun and/or direct energy gun, I haven't heard anything about it here in Japan.
I will try and see if I can dig up anything in the weekend.
The way I see it, JMSDF has the option of going with another SPY-1 variant, or an upsized variant of the APAR they have on their akizukis... I would be surprised if JMSDF got AMDR by 2021 when 27DD are said to be commissioned, as that is only a few years later than when USN would get it on flight iii burke... and typically the JSDF gets the newest US toys quite a few years after they are first inducted into the US military.
I wouldn't be surprised if Japan doesn't have a rail gun and laser programme going; every major military in the world probably has one under fairly advanced development
kwaigonegin
Colonel
I think it would be foolish for next generation jmsdf aegis destroyers to not have AMDR capabilities. Did japan decline joint project with just Raytheon or 'any' US company? THere are a few other options as well.
LM and NG make radars with fairly similar capabilities.
SamuraiBlue
Captain
IT was a request from the US government.
The main feature of AMDR is to utilze Gallium nitride base electronic curcuits that Japan had already developed on her own and now being utilized in FCS-3A.
Japan had a very bad experience in these so-called "Joint" developments and fears that the US will take all the required data and place it into a black box and sell it back without any access.
shen
Senior Member
Replacing the SPY-1 with an indigenous radar would need the U.S. to release source code for Aegis. Good luck with that.
shen
Senior Member
going by the article I quoted, more than 10 years for an operational gun.
Good enough. I guess we will wait and see.
I expect that the 3rd Zumwalt will be not only testing, but using an operational rail gun before 2025. Anywhere from 3-5 years earlier.
As to the Japanese...the 2025 time frame may well be in the ball park if they move that way.
General Atomics has two rail guns they have been working on. The 32 mj weapon for ONI that is the 155mm gun for the Zumwalt. They also have another weapon, the Blitzer, which they are testing at 10+ mj, which will be for other weapons, possibly up to 127mm.
GA has indicated that they intend to provide a rail gun to fit on the newer Burkes. I presume this means that either they, or the Japanese with their own development, could do the same on the new Atagos.
But...as I say...time will tell.
Ultra
Junior Member
Yeh I just realized that LOL!
Anyway, I think Japan has already got almost all the components needed to develop these weapon systems.
The world's largest and most powerful laser is actually not a weapon but the
Which tries to create fusion by using laser. NIF aims to create a single 500 terawatt (TW) peak flash of light that reaches the target from numerous directions at the same time, within a few picoseconds. One of the most critical component is the focusing lens - they had to be PERFECT, and they are developed and supplied by the Japanese optics conglomerate Hoya.
This compare with the Laser Weapon System or LaWS for the USN which outputs a comparatively small 15–50 kW for engaging small aircraft and high-speed boats (It generates 33 kW in testing, with follow-on deployable weapons generating 60–100 kW mounted on a or to destroy fast-attack boats, drones, manned aircraft, and anti-ship cruise missiles out to a few miles).
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