Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...

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 developing the ...

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 ...

A warning siren bellowed through the concrete bunker of a top-secret Naval facility where U.S. military engineers prepared to demonstrate a weapon for which there is little defense. Officials huddled ...

After years of troubled development, the Navy's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun appears stuck in research limbo, according to budget documents reviewed by Task & Purpose By Jared Keller Updated Dec ...

The US Navy is putting its dreams of an electromagnetic railgun on hold to pursue other weapons. A Navy spokesperson told the AP that pausing railgun research frees up funds for hypersonic weapons.

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 ...

Crypto privacy protocol Railgun’s built-in tool to filter out bad actors has seemingly foiled Inferno Drainer’s latest attempt to launder its stolen cash. In a July 10 post on X, MistTrack noted that ...