This weapon could one day revolutionize warfare. It's a new version of the railgun, and it packs an earth-shattering, hypersonic punch. In the past, railguns have been high-tech but massive beasts ...

Discover the science and technology behind the electromagnetic railgun, a revolutionary long-range naval weapon that uses intense electricity instead of traditional rocket fuel. This video begins with ...

The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity. The Navy spent more than a decade developing the ...

A warning siren bellowed through the concrete bunker of a top-secret Naval facility where U.S. military engineers prepared to demonstrate a weapon for which there is little defense. Officials huddled ...

Watching old war movies, we expect firing a navy gun to be accompanied by a deafening bang and a dramatic cloud of burnt powder. This being the 21st century, the US Navy has other ideas as it prepares ...

After years of troubled development, the Navy's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun appears stuck in research limbo, according to budget documents reviewed by Task & Purpose By Jared Keller Published ...

The U.S. Navy has moved one step closer to attaining a devastating battleship-ready weapon. In February, naval researchers finally began testing a railgun prototype. Now, we've learned that they have ...

Japan says it successfully test fired its medium-caliber maritime electromagnetic railgun via an offshore platform. According to its Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), this was the ...

After spending more than $500 million, the Department of Defense is moving away from its railgun project and instead leaning towards a mixture of new and existing technologies. The U.S. Navy’s highly ...

The Upbit hacker moved funds through Railgun, passing the mixer's test for banned wallets. The exploiter bypassed the test by quickly moving funds between wallets, so Railgun did not have an updated ...

The U.S. Navy's electromagnetic railgun is essentially a superweapon—a cannon that uses no chemical propellants to fire a tungsten projectile at speeds up to Mach 7 (5,800 mph) over distances of 100 ...

The Navy has announced that it is pulling funds from the much-hyped electromagnetic railgun in order to shift those monetary resources to hypersonic missiles and other high-tech weapons. The program, ...