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

On October 17, Japan’s military announced it had successfully test-fired a railgun on board a ship. The test was conducted by the Acquisition Technology and Logistics Agency, Japan’s rough DARPA ...

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 ...

Japan said its ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun has successfully hit a target vessel during a recent test, a key step toward future deployment of the next-generation weapon capable of shooting ...

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 ...

Japan has made a major technological development in military technology by testing the first ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun in the world in which the electromagnetic weapon was fired at a ...

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 ...

(Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Army recently issued a request for information on its desire to acquire an artillery system that incorporates a piece of Dayton-bred weapons technology. The Army ...