The electric cannon - Japan's railgun project picks up speed The subject of the "electric cannon" (railgun) is far from over: The Japanese Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) recently installed a demonstrator on board the test carrier "Asuka" - a 151-metre-long ship with a displacement of 6,300 tonnes that is strongly reminiscent of former US destroyers. Between...
According to the Bremen Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), 99 per cent of global orders for new merchant ships measured in CGT (Compensated Gross Tons) went to shipyards in Asia in the first six months of the current year. The majority of the approximately 600 newbuilding orders, totalling 21 million CGT,...
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