Step inside our workshop as we assemble a functioning railgun using copper rails, a capacitor bank, and a whole lot of ...

The US Navy railgun program is making great technical progress according to the Office of Naval Research program manager Tom Boucher. The Navy is now working towards installing railguns at permanent ...

The US Navy has spent a lot of time and money trying to develop a rail gun, and now, it's talking about taking this powerful weapon out to sea.

That's because this railgun, the GR-1 Anvil, is something you can hold and fire just like a rifle. According to the Daily Mail, the weapon is slated to go on sale in the US for a whopping $3,375 ...

The US Navy is preparing to install and test a prototype electromagnetic railgun on a Spearhead-class joint high speed vessel (JHSV) in 2016 as part of a program to develop the naval artillery of ...

The U.S. Navy's experimental railgun is getting new upgrades to make it fire more powerful shots, and fire them faster. It's the latest bit of progress on this still-landlocked weapon, but when ...

A United States electromagnetic railgun is seen at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia on January 12, 2017. John F. Williams/U.S. Navy ...

The 23-pound hypervelocity projectile designed for the railgun flying at Mach 7 has 32 megajoules of energy—roughly equivalent to the energy required to accelerate an object weighing 1,000 ...

The railgun launches rounds using electromagnetic force rather than explosive propellant. The USN prototype has 100MJ of pulse-power capacitors and a 25MW powerplant for recharging.

Handheld railgun that is as powerful as an air rifle and uses electromagnets to fire ammo at 200ft per second is set to go on sale in the US. Arcflash Labs is accepting preorders for the GR-1 ...

Sputnik was not a weapon but it showed that the Soviet Union was competitive with US military technology. On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite—Sputnik—into orbit. The ...

The electromagnetic railgun prototype, which weighs eight tons and has a 19.6-foot-long cannon barrel, is capable of firing a projectile at Mach 6.5, according to the report.