The US Navy has just released footage of their new rail gun being tested. Seen in the video above, this new electromagnetic rail gun is seriously intimidating. On the Navy’s YouTube page, officials ...

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 ...

Navy leaders believe the DDG 1000 is the right ship to house the rail gun but that additional study was necessary to examine the risks. Also, with a displacement of 15,482 tons, the DDG 1000 is ...

A rail gun is an electromagnetically powered weapon, using electric charges to propel projectiles rather than fuels or explosives like bullets or missiles. The first rail gun power system was ...

What You Need to Know: Railguns, which use electromagnetic force to launch high-speed projectiles, have long been pursued by ...

The U.S. Navy announced Monday it's ready to launch a warship armed with a laser cannon. We might not have hoverboards, but finally, we can say the future is here. The solid-state Laser Weapon System, ...

The Navy is considering accelerating developmental testing of its high-tech, long-range Electro-Magnetic Rail Gun by expanding the platforms from which it might fire and potentially postponing an ...

An aggressive effort to make the U.S. Navy more lethal and efficient will include experiments with new uses for missiles and application of new rail gun technology to smaller weapons systems, the ...

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 ...

Two years ago, the Navy announced that it would test its futuristic rail gun in 2016 aboard a Joint High Speed Vessel, a new transport ship for which top admirals envision a variety of missions. The ...