Propelled by an electrical current and traveling at speeds up to Mach 7.5, the US Navy’s Hyper Velocity Projectile can shoot out of a rail gun to destroy enemy ships, vehicles and missiles at ranges ...

The U.S. Navy has spent half a billion dollars working to perfect a new type of projectile weapons technology that could be used in current and future naval ships. That gun is the railgun, which has ...

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 intercept ...

Key point: The Pentagon is working hard on building a working Rail Gun before anyone else can. The Navy is considering accelerating developmental testing of its high-tech, long-range Electro-Magnetic ...

The U.S. Navy's electromagnetic railgun is essentially a superweapon—a cannon that uses no chemical propellants to fire a tungsten projectile at speeds up to Mach 7 (5,800 mph) over distances of 100 ...

With its program to develop prototype electromagnetic rail guns entering its second phase, the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is launching an initiative to develop technology for a projectile for ...

The Navy is currently developing three potential new weapons that could improve the ability of its surface ships to defend themselves against enemy missiles—solid state lasers (SSLs), the ...

China’s navy has apparently tested out a hypersonic rail gun — basically a device that uses a series of electromagnets to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds — but during a demonstration of ...

Photograph taken from a high-speed video camera during a record-setting firing of a seven-pound bullet fired from a truck-sized electromagnetic railgun at seven times the speed of sound and sent a ...

Three new ship-based weapons being developed by the Navy—solid state lasers (SSLs), the electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), and the gun-launched guided projectile (GLGP), also known as the hypervelocity ...

The Navy’s futuristic electric cannon, or railgun, received yet more hype this week for its ability to fire a shell at up to 5,600 miles per hour, and do it far more cheaply than a missile. But ...

Three new ship-based weapons being developed by the Navy—solid state lasers (SSLs), the electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), and the gun-launched guided projectile (GLGP), also known as the hypervelocity ...