There’s dead, mostly dead, and then there’s the Navy’s railgun, which appears to have been resurrected along with the battleship.

On October 17, Japan’s military announced it had successfully test-fired a railgun on board a ship. The test was conducted by the Acquisition Technology and Logistics Agency, Japan’s rough DARPA ...

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 U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said design efforts are underway for the new ship and construction is planned to begin in the early 2030s.

The railgun was once hailed as the future of military technology — a weapon that didn’t need gunpowder to fire, capable of launching projectiles at seven times the speed of sound with a range of up to ...

China’s Navy researchers have claimed to have solved issues to make military relevant and useful railguns. China has mounted a single test railgun on a ship since about 2018-2019. China has talked ...

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build ...

The Navy—solid state lasers (SSLs), the electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), and the gun-launched guided projectile (GLGP) [aka hypervelocity projectile (HVP)] for about a decade. The US Navy’s proposed ...

North Korea has issued a warning to Japan over its upcoming test-fire of a prototype railgun. The futuristic weapon signals Japan is mulling a preemptive attack on the nuclear-armed country, state ...

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 ...

The following is the Oct. 20, 2021, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress. This report provides background ...