President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the Navy will build “battleships” again was not the only blast from the past. If they are ever built, the ships would each feature an electromagnetic ...

The U.S. Navy says it has tested one of two prototypes of its futuristic electromagnetic railgun, a weapon that could fire a 5-inch projectile up to 100 miles, yet which requires no explosives to fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced naval guns that could replace land-attack and anti-ship missiles as well as defend warships from ballistic and cruise missiles have taken a step forward with the start of prototype ...

Key Points and Summary on Japan's New Railgun - While the U.S. Navy's ambitious and expensive railgun program was canceled in 2021 after 15 years and $500 million in spending, Japan has successfully ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navy released a rendering of the new battleships announced by President Donald Trump, which feature a railgun. President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the Navy will build “battleships” ...

“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 ...