The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The ...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program will take an important step forward in the coming weeks when the first industry railgun prototype launcher is tested at Naval ...

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 decade ...

It can fire a solid metal slug at speeds of up to 4,500 mph, or Mach 6. It can hit targets up to 100 nautical miles away. It’s capable of defeating incoming ballistic missiles and liquefying even the ...

For more than three years now, I've been tracking the U.S. Navy's progress toward building a working electromagnetic railgun prototype-- a Mach 6 cannon reputedly capable of striking targets 110 miles ...

Engineers fired the Navy's first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher at a Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) facility, commencing an evaluation ...

In order to give its on-board weaponry a kick in the pants, the U.S. Navy is actively pursuing the development of a new electric-based launcher system—the Electromagnetic Railgun—through two separate ...