The US canceled it railgun program because the US could not prevent too much damage to the railgun barrel. The China Navy railgun reported the ability to achieve continuous firing. The weapon retained ...

The Chinese navy has tested an electromagnetic rail gun, firing a smart bomb 15km (9 miles) high into the stratosphere at a speed exceeding Mach 5, according to scientists involved in the project.

Both China and North Korea, which pose threats to Japan, have claimed to have tested and deployed hypersonic missiles.

A group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. Even during continuous firing ...

Smartplanet – the first Navy railgun prototype was developed by military contractor BAE systems and a second railgun was developed by General Atomics. General Atomics recently announced a successful ...

Previous US railgun tests saw barrels melt during firing, and current research has revolved around cooling the rails to maintain high energy per shot. In the years since 2011, Chinese researchers ...

The projected source of the loud noises is the same range where the service first tested its experimental railgun. You love badass military tech. So do we. Let's nerd out over this stuff together.

Firing from an Army Howitzer, the rail gun hypervelocity projectile can fire a 5,000-mile and hour projectile at enemy targets to include buildings, force concentrations, weapons systems, drones ...

Japan’s Ministry of Defense made maritime history by firing the first railgun from a battleship. Its Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) tested it alongside the Japanese Maritime ...

So, what’s the builder of the first handheld railgun do to top himself? Why, he makes it three times as powerful, shrinks it by half, and adds a semi-automatic firing mechanism, of course!

Based on new video published by the Department of Defense, the railgun has successfully moved from single-shot to repeated firing rate operations — a major stepping stone on the path to the ...