As dangerous threats to America's safety increase with each passing day, so does the need to combat any potential enemy.For ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This striking image is from a high-speed camera used to photograph a US railgun in action in 2012. This Virginia-based railgun was ...

Japan says it successfully test fired its medium-caliber maritime electromagnetic railgun via an offshore platform. According to its Acquisition Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), this was the ...

Discover the science and technology behind the electromagnetic railgun, a revolutionary long-range naval weapon that uses intense electricity instead of traditional rocket fuel. This video begins with ...

The U.S. Navy says it has tested one of two prototypes of its futuristic electromagnetic railgun, a weapon that could fire a 5-inch projectile up to 100 miles, yet which requires no explosives to fire ...

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 group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. There were older photos that China had ...

Japan has been developing electromagnetic (EM) railgun technology since at least 2015, and current plans call for its future 13DDX destroyers to be armed with advanced weapons and possibly even lasers ...

The US Navy is putting its dreams of an electromagnetic railgun on hold to pursue other weapons. A Navy spokesperson told the AP that pausing railgun research frees up funds for hypersonic weapons.