Lasers, railguns, and hi-velocity projectiles may let warships defend themselves without escalation ...

New photos appear to show the railgun perched on the bow of a Type 072III-class landing ship at sea By Jared Keller Posted on Dec 29, 2018 7:24 PM EST China’s futuristic electromagnetic railgun ...

In a stunning display of technological prowess, Chinese navy engineers have claimed to have developed an electromagnetic rail gun that can fire multiple projectiles at hypersonic speeds without ...

Objective: construct and fire a rail gun. Definition: a linear electromagnetic accelerator consisting of two rails and an armature in which the large amounts of current are passed through the rails to ...

A high-velocity projectile leaves the gun at speeds up to seven times ... Defense companies BAE Systems and General Atomics both built electromagnetic railgun prototypes for the Navy, and the ...