From the journal of superscience, take with the appropriate grain of salt:
"NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit"
By Rena Marie Pacella Posted December 17, 2010
Source...
Came across this via an old article at Japan Security Watch; The JMSDF's Asuka Class ASE (Auxiliary Ship Experiment):
[IMAGE CREDIT: vspg.net]
The Asuka, which is the only one in her class, is an interesting testbed ship built on a Murasame class hull at a old Sumitomo Heavy Industries yard...
cold war ii
early 21st century
experimental
japan maritime self-defense force
jmsdf
late 20th century
post-cold war
railgun
research
research ship
test ship
testbed
trials ship
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