re: #401 goddamnedfrank

File under science non-fiction: US Railgun tech appears to be improving so rapidly that the Navy’s head of surface warfare is considering skipping prototype sea trials and putting an operational unit directly on the next Zumwalt class destroyer.

Yeah, no offense, but this isn’t war time, we can afford to take the time to test a groundbreaking weapons system on a test bed instead of skipping that stage and risking a major surface combatant.