The principle behind electromagnetic weapons is actually very simple, but the technical difficulty is extremely high. For example, the two electromagnetic railguns mounted on the Ash-class aircraft carrier first appeared in the real world in France in 1920. Because of their superior performance and relatively easy-to-implement technology, railguns stood out among several electromagnetic weapons and attracted widespread attention from various countries. Today, the electromagnetic weapons developed by several major powers in the real world are invariably railguns.
So what, to this day not a single country has officially commissioned such advanced kinetic energy weapons into active service.
Even the Ash-class aircraft carrier had only just been launched.
An Yang had not studied this technology in depth, but based on his amount of knowledge, he could more or less identify the bottlenecks currently encountered by major world powers in developing this weapon.
To truly realize electromagnetic weapons, it was not just a matter of making one; it also needed to have a certain utility value. Otherwise, people would have built electromagnetic guns a hundred years ago. Aside from difficult problems like size and manufacturing costs, realizing the actual combat value of an electromagnetic weapon required a power supply platform capable of providing fast and massive electrical energy. The technologies involved here were far too numerous, and if one wanted to move it off the ground, the difficulties would multiply several times over.
Aside from these, the main difficulty of railguns lay in superconductor materials.
Because electromagnetic guns did not require propellant or complex artillery mechanisms like recuperators and recoil brakes, their launch costs were extremely low. However, if the superconductor launch rails broke after firing a hundred or so rounds, the costs could not be kept low, and having to frequently replace barrels during combat operations was also far too troublesome.