New battleships use magnets to fire rounds faster than sound
Inventions
To withstand the violent force of electromagnetic launches, these steel hulls must endure pressures equivalent to thirty times the energy of a conventional railgun shot.
Modern naval engineers are reviving the massive scale of World War II battleships by fusing heavy metallurgy with quantum computing. While the legendary Iowa-class ships took nearly three years to build during wartime, today's shipyards use artificial intelligence to simulate fluid movements, cutting drydock time by forty percent. These vessels are constructed in parallel using modular blocks that weigh up to 10,000 tons each, allowing multiple sections of the ship to be welded together simultaneously rather than built from the keel up.