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 ...

A Certain Scientific Railgun is undoubtedly the most successful of these A Certain spinoff releases, and in some ways is even more of a hit than the original. This is going to be even more the case ...

This means the railgun could fling a projectile faster and farther without storing dangerous and bulky powder charges, and ...

The compressed gas in such ammo causes the projectile to leave the cannon - usually making a loud noise in the process. The electromagnetic railgun simplifies the process of firing projectiles ...