Unlike missile systems, railguns rely on an electromagnetic current and kinetic energy to operate, shooting out a projectile ...

General Atomics' electromagnetic systems business has received a U.S. Army contract modification to advance hypersonic projectile technology designed to integrate with a railgun system and intercept ...

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 ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: Railguns, which use electromagnetic force to launch high-speed projectiles, have long been pursued by military powers, but they remain out of reach due to significant technical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Navy scientists with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) hit a new milestone, successfully firing their electromagnetic railgun for the 1,000th time as the state-of-the-art weapon edges closer to real ...

The following is the Oct. 20, 2021, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress. This report provides background ...

A new round of intercept tests of railgun-fired hypersonic projectiles against airborne targets will take place in 2021 under a new U.S. Army contract award to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems ...

The following is the Dec. 23, 2020, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress. Three new ship-based weapons ...