Photos posted by a Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) observer show what appears to be an electromagnetic railgun being affixed to a PLAN tank landing ship, the Haiyang Shan.The LST is ...

US Intelligence knew that China started railgun testing in 2014 ... train railguns and then tank railguns China has claimed to have made a breakthrough with medium voltage integrated DC power. US Navy ...

The US is not the only country chasing this technology. China has already managed to arm a warship — the Type 072III Yuting-class tank-landing ship "Haiyang Shan" — with a railgun. Visit ...

In comparison, a railgun currently cannot achieve a higher muzzle velocity than the amount of energy input. Even at 50% efficiency a rail gun launching a projectile with a kinetic energy of 20 MJ ...

As the US worked to develop a railgun, China also expressed interest in this advanced combat technology. In 2018, images appeared online of what appeared to be a Chinese tank landing ship equipped ...

The railgun projectile instead gains speed as it travels the length of a 32-foot barrel, exiting the muzzle at 4,500 miles an hour, or more than a mile a second.

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. Specialist outlet 19FortyFive ...