h/t Glenn Reynolds, the Army had a railgun project too. Had.
The thing was, in theory, supposed to reach 1600 km. I'm not doing the maths on this but, the range isn't the model which even the military were really looking at. The grunts'd rather punch a hole into some hostile battleship maybe 160 km out, with more speed and accuracy. Hence why the Navy was researching the same thing.
The Army has other longrange weapons on deck, so this cancellation isn't (or shouldn't be) cause for complaint. More cause for... concern, is that the Navy had cancelled something that looks very like it. There may be technical issues around firing this thing in 1-bar atmosphere.
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