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

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 ...

Less than a year after declaring the U.S. Navy "fully invested" in the service's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun ... capable of accelerating a projectile to hypersonic speeds but stuck in ...

The U.S. Navy quietly test-fired 20 supersonic shells originally intended for the service's futuristic electromagnetic railgun from ... generation hypervelocity projectile — a supersonic shell ...

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the rail gun’s smart bomb projectile features a pair of gliding wings for guided descent. These wings enable the bomb to, in theory, follow a ...

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 ...