Less than a year after declaring the U.S. Navy "fully invested" in the service's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is apparently experiencing some ...

In May, a Naval Engineering University team in Beijing used artificial intelligence technology in its latest railgun ...

The US Navy is working on a few railgun projects that will eventually replace the largest guns on the fleet’s cruisers and destroyers. These rail guns will fire a projectile away from the ship ...

In June, a U.S. intelligence assessment estimated that the Chinese military planned on fielding its own version of the electromagnetic railgun on naval vessels as early as 2025, far outstripping ...

The US Navy is testing a railgun that it has invested $500 million in — and it plans to invest an additional $800 million. Military planners say that the barrel gun "would be useful if the US ...

The Navy have developed a weapon that will use a ship's self-generated power to fire at long-range targets. This means that the electromagnetic railgun launcher uses electricity instead of ...

At this moment, projectiles from the railgun reach a speed of 6.5 Ma (4982 mph) at the moment of firing. The durability of the Japanese railgun weapon is estimated at over 120 fired rounds.

This photo illustration shows the 32-megajoule prototype demonstrator, built by BAE Systems, top, which arrived at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division on Jan. 30, 2012, and is the first ...

American naval force has successfully developed a new laser weapon system called the “rail gun” and will deploy it as early ...