Naval Guns News. BAE brings traditional firepower into the 21st Century.

via USNI News.

The U.S. Navy’s deck guns could take on new relevance if ongoing tests to fire a guided round at five times the speed of sound from their muzzles are successful, USNI News has learned.
Using rounds initially designed for the service’s emerging electromagnetic railgun, Naval Sea Systems Command are now in early testing phases of using the planned hyper velocity projectile (HVPs) with the service’s existing gunpowder-based deck guns found on almost every U.S. Navy surface ship, NAVSEA told USNI News.

Here.

The possibilities are .... mind boggling!

Precision, high speed firepower that isn't weather dependent?  Yes please!  This is what the Company Landing Team Concept needs on steroids.  I have serious doubts about the air component being able to deliver on the promise of providing the type of close air support that our ground forces have come to expect....but if all forms of artillery can fill the void then we're looking at maintaining, maybe even increasing, the standard.

But our black shoe friends will be able to make claims to more.  Surface engagements will (maybe) be possible without the use of missiles.  Consider.  The projectiles will have longer reach than the Harpoon.  The next idea is to place these on trucks for shore defense.  Taiwan?  You seeing this buddy?

This is a pretty exciting development in my opinion.