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From the article at https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/02/04/2nd_zumwalt-class_stealth_destroyer_passes_sea_test_113011.html?utm_source=RC+Defense+Morning+Recon&utm_campaign=34652d2709-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_694f73a8dc-34652d2709-81812733


"As a porter of a perfected rail gun, it would be fearsome. Steel spikes launched at 4,000 mph at a target on land or at sea. If you fired a rail gun almost straight up 3 miles, the projectiles would come racing back down and steel arrows would pierce an enemy warship's hull vertically" !


Only if the enemy warship remains in the same place, rather unlikely that an enemy combatant will sit still waiting for that.


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