Navy railgun fires 40-lb. bullets at Mach 7 Navy railgun: A Navy prototype of an electromagnetic railgun marks a major step in the process of installing the weapons on Navy vessels.

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 ...

Though you may have used a railgun to defend yourself in Halo, you have never seen anything like this railgun that was 3D printed and assembled as a hobby.

General Atomics ' electromagnetic systems business has received a U.S. Army contract modification to advance hypersonic projectile technology designed to integrate with a railgun system and ...

Congress had its budgetary knives out for the Electronic Railgun, the Navy's futuristic cannon that fires bullets at hypersonic speeds with a burst of electricity. But the railgun survived -- that ...

The Navy's futuristic electromagnetic railgun is set to take a major developmental step forward this summer as developers work to increase the number of shots it can fire per minute and the power ...

Navy tests railgun that can shoot up to 100 miles The Office of Naval Research is evaluating railgun prototypes from BAE Systems and General Atomics.

That’s more than enough electricity for the railgun, and the ship has space following the cancellation of the advanced gun system, leaving the ship with no conventional cannon-based weapon.

The US Navy has spent a lot of time and money trying to develop a rail gun, and now, it's talking about taking this powerful weapon out to sea.

Following a flurry of reports in December predicting the Navy's $500 million electromagnetic railgun experiment was dead on arrival, the chief of Naval Operations told lawmakers this week that the ...

The railgun project was allocated about $56 million in the government's fiscal 2022 budget proposal, Japan’s The Mainichi newspaper reported Jan. 5.

But Japan says the railgun is meant for defense, especially against the growing saturation of hypersonic and ballistic missiles from China, North Korea, and Russia.