Meet the ‘most lethal surface warship to appear in a long, long time’ the Trump-class battleship, which will be the next ...

The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The ...

In order to give its on-board weaponry a kick in the pants, the U.S. Navy is actively pursuing the development of a new electric-based launcher system—the Electromagnetic Railgun—through two separate ...

U.S. Navy researchers needed energy storage technologies to help develop a long-range shipboard weapon that fires projectiles using electrical power instead of chemical propellants. They found their ...

The U.S. Navy plans to install and test a prototype electromagnetic railgun aboard a joint high speed vessel (JHSV) in fiscal year 2016, the service announced today. You must be logged in to rate.