Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...

Key point: The Pentagon is working hard on building a working Rail Gun before anyone else can. The Navy is considering accelerating developmental testing of its high-tech, long-range Electro-Magnetic ...

Navy leaders believe the DDG 1000 is the right ship to house the rail gun but that additional study was necessary to examine the risks. Also, with a displacement of 15,482 tons, the DDG 1000 is ...

The Railgun Dream: The concept of the railgun, a weapon that uses electromagnetic force to launch high-velocity projectiles, has captivated military engineers since its introduction during World War I ...

A rail gun is an electromagnetically powered weapon, using electric charges to propel projectiles rather than fuels or explosives like bullets or missiles. The first rail gun power system was ...

The U.S. Navy announced Monday it's ready to launch a warship armed with a laser cannon. We might not have hoverboards, but finally, we can say the future is here. The solid-state Laser Weapon System, ...

Integrated Power System: GA’s previous and current experience in the development of advanced Integrated Power Systems for Naval propulsion and weapons provides unique insights into the integration of ...

The capacitors store energy from an AC power source and release it using solid state switching technology in pulses of up to 5.5 mega-amps in 10 milliseconds to power various rail gun launcher ...

The Navy’s futuristic electric cannon, or railgun, received yet more hype this week for its ability to fire a shell at up to 5,600 miles per hour, and do it far more cheaply than a missile. But ...

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 ...