The United States Navy has quietly resumed live-fire testing of a prototype electromagnetic railgun.

A group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. There were older photos that China had ...

An electromagnetic rail gun would use magnetic fields created by electrical currents to accelerate a sliding metal conductor along two rails. Larry Greenemeier reports The Pentagon is closer to adding ...

Discover the science and technology behind the electromagnetic railgun, a revolutionary long-range naval weapon that uses ...

China has signaled plans for a next-generation, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier capable of deploying high-energy laser weapons and electromagnetic rail guns, a technology the United States once ...

Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, a prominent figure in China's naval technology development, has recently unveiled the conceptual blueprint of an unprecedented warship, claiming it to be unlike any vessel ...

China’s Navy researchers have claimed to have solved issues to make military relevant and useful railguns. China has mounted a single test railgun on a ship since about 2018-2019. China has talked ...

The U.S. Army and Navy's electromagnetic (EM) gun programs, intended to increase projectile velocity by using a more efficient energy source, are a collaborative effort between the services based on ...

The Navy is going for 64 megajoules and a range of 200 miles, but is more focused on getting a workable weapon onto ships, more than two decades after the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative began ...

China has revealed plans to develop a futuristic warship that would include breakthrough technologies that would bring “science fiction to the real world,” according to a report. The ship will utilize ...