Recent reports indicate that the Chinese Navy has unveiled a revolutionary electromagnetic railgun capable of launching projectiles at hypersonic speeds, using advanced electromagnetic technology.
The US Navy is working on a few railgun projects that will eventually replace the largest guns on the fleet’s cruisers and destroyers. These rail guns will fire a projectile away from the ship ...
Electromagnetic railguns are a futuristic application of technologies that have been around for a long time. Basically: “let’s use electricity to throw something really far and really fast.” ...
The Navy's electromagnetic railgun fires a hyper velocity projectile (HVP) during testing at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) By Task & Purpose Posted on Sep 4, 2020 5:08 PM ...
The US Navy has decided to shelve the research and development of an electromagnetic railgun to build other weapons, such as hypersonic missiles and lasers, the Associated Press reported ...
Objective: construct and fire a rail gun. Definition: a linear electromagnetic accelerator consisting of two rails and an armature in which the large amounts of current are passed through the rails to ...
You can make a rail gun at home. All it is is two parallel electromagnets ... that ought to fire more or less indefinitely. Alas, the Navy mothballed the project in 2021. Still, this prototype ...
The U.S. Navy’s San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks (LPDs) represent a versatile and cost-effective solution for future naval power projection, as opposed to the very expensive aircraft ...
Helldivers 2's upcoming patch will be bringing with it some pretty beefy buffs to the RS-422 railgun, with Arrowhead having slid the weapon's damage numbers upwards in its efforts to deliver the ...
The Navy’s first fully gender-integrated submarine joined the fleet with changes to reflect an increase of women sailors serving in positions that were previously off limits. The biggest change?