General Atomics is looking to pitch its railgun technologies in a terminal defense capacity for Golden Dome and the Defense ...

Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from brutal heat and electromagnetic stress in under 30 shots, fire rates lagged, ...

In 2012, BAE Systems and General Atomics started developing one of the United States Navy’s most ambitious and unique ...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) demonstrates the Navy’s electromagnetic railgun initial rep-rate fires of multi-shot salvos at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. The revolutionary ...

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program recently started to evaluate the second of two industry railgun prototype launchers at a facility in Dahlgren, Va., officials ...

The US Navy was never able to work out how to build a reliable railgun. Japan apparently has. Way back in 2005, as America was still enjoying its “unipolar moment,” the United States Navy began its ...

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 ...

TOKYO—Japan plans to conduct a second at-sea test of its developmental railgun in June, as the next phase of the technology’s evolution advances under the leadership of the Acquisition, Technology & ...

The future has arrived at the U.S. Navy, which will begin deploying lasers this year and an electromagnetic rail gun within two years. The laser will be set up on the transport dock USS Ponce in the ...