While the U.S. Navy’s ambitious and expensive railgun program was canceled in 2021 after 15 years and $500 million in ...

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 is putting its dreams of an electromagnetic railgun on hold to pursue other weapons. A Navy spokesperson told the AP that pausing railgun research frees up funds for hypersonic weapons.

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 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.

US Navy railgun research and progress. April 7, 2017 August 6, 2015 by Brian Wang. The 2015 Navy Expo proceedings for Electromagnetic railguns and solid state lasers is here (42 pages) The Navy is ...

The US Navy is tapping the power of the Force to wage war.. Its latest weapon is an electromagnetic railgun launcher. It uses a form of electromagnetic energy known as the Lorentz force to hurl a ...

The Navy and Marine Corps’ new ‘Star Wars’-style weapon made its debut in the nation’s capital this week. The Electromagnetic Railgun, developed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) with ...

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 ...

Ah, the railgun. Previously a flight of fancy fit only for wars in works of science fiction, the ultimate in electromagnetic weaponry is one step closer to becoming a reality for the US Navy. We ...

The US Navy has taken another step closer to swapping powder for electrons with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announcing that its electromagnetic railgun has moved out of the laboratory. At ...

While the United States spent years dithering over the future of its much-hyped electromagnetic railgun project, China ate its lunch.