A group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. There were older photos that China had ...

Developed by BAE Systems and General Atomics, the U.S. Navy’s electromagnetic railgun promised to redefine long-range ...

BATH, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity. The Navy spent more than a decade ...

It can fire a solid metal slug at speeds of up to 4,500 mph, or Mach 6. It can hit targets up to 100 nautical miles away. It’s capable of defeating incoming ballistic missiles and liquefying even the ...

The US Navy has just released footage of their new rail gun being tested. Seen in the video above, this new electromagnetic rail gun is seriously intimidating. On the Navy’s YouTube page, officials ...

In just about two years, the U.S. Navy will install a prototype electromagnetic (EM) railgun in a high-speed vessel. This will mark the first time an electromagnetic railgun will be tested at sea. One ...

In order to give its on-board weaponry a kick in the pants, the U.S. Navy is actively pursuing the development of a new electric-based launcher system—the Electromagnetic Railgun—through two separate ...

The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The ...

Railgun technology that uses electricity and high velocities rather than explosives to destroy targets has a checkered past. One reason is the huge amount of energy required to launch projectiles at ...

“We thought railguns were something we were really going to go after,” then-Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work stated at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. in May 2016. “But it turns out that ...