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There are 2 types of warfare with Navy: i) Naval to Naval warfare: Mach 6 projectile is correct but the part where you mention "several of them" is the place where I am trying to interject. The problems: 1)Slow rate of fire, about 1 round per few minutes in a railgun as recharge takes time...

EM projectiles are like artillery. They don't have homing seekers and are not guided by radar. Also, the railguns require the projectiles to be mostly metal (carbon composite rockets filled with non metallic propellant may not be fired) which limits the number of projectiles. Since these are all...

Hmm.... Actually, rockets shoot much further than Railguns. Rocket propelled artillery shell will go the longest for least weight penalty. The size of railgun is very large as it needs bid devices to charge up and push out the projectile. Even the barrel is very long. So, all the volume issues...

The railguns are slow to reload and need too much power. I don't see a reason to keep them instead of rockets, mini missiles or simply artillery