A railgun has two parallel conducting rails with a sliding armature between them. The armature is propelled by a high-amplitude current – sometimes more than a million amps. A coilgun is a ...

A handheld railgun, which uses electricity rather than ... billed as the world's first handheld coilgun. The coils in a coilgun attract a ferromagnetic projectile down the barrel, accelerating ...

The US Navy is working on a few railgun projects that will eventually replace the largest guns on the fleet’s cruisers and destroyers. These rail guns will fire a projectile away from the ship ...

What’s more powerful than a railgun? A 50-caliber electric coilgun, of course! In this video, Hacksmith Industries creates one of our most ambitious projects yet, using advanced engineering to ...

This revolutionary gadget is a handheld, fully portable, 9-stage automatic coilgun. According to China, this is the world’s most potent coil gun. And it doesn't shoot bullets—it fires of coin ...

The railgun race is already on in the region as ... a shell moving at this rapid speed could hit a target several kilometres away. The coil gun has advantages over traditional artillery ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

It works like a railgun but uses a solenoid instead of rails. A solenoid is a wire coil that uses electromagnetic energy to propel objects. One advantage a coilgun or Gauss cannon has over a ...