The Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division has resumed electromagnetic railgun testing at White Sands Missile ...

An electromagnetic railgun uses powerful magnetic forces to launch projectiles at hypersonic speeds without explosives, ...

Japan says it successfully test fired its medium-caliber maritime electromagnetic railgun via an offshore platform. According to its Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), this was the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This striking image is from a high-speed camera used to photograph a US railgun in action in 2012. This Virginia-based railgun was ...

Imagine a Naval gun so powerful it can shoot a 5-inch projectile up to 220 miles, yet requires no explosives to fire. That's the Navy's futuristic electromagnetic railgun, a project that could be ...

The U.S. Navy has moved one step closer to attaining a devastating battleship-ready weapon. In February, naval researchers finally began testing a railgun prototype. Now, we've learned that they have ...

The Navy has spent seven years testing out the components of a way-futuristic weapon: a shipboard cannon that blasts bullets over vast distances at hypersonic speeds using bursts of electricity. But ...

China appears to be the first country to place a electromagnetic railgun on a ship. The weapon was spotted on an old Chinese Navy landing craft in Wuhan and images of it quickly spread across the ...

The electromagnetic railgun developed by BAE Systems for the U.S. Navy has a lot going for it. It is smaller than a conventional cannon. It can fire a projectile up to 4,600 mph, or around Mach 6. It ...

Watching old war movies, we expect firing a navy gun to be accompanied by a deafening bang and a dramatic cloud of burnt powder. This being the 21st century, the US Navy has other ideas as it prepares ...