China’s navy has apparently tested out a hypersonic rail gun — basically a device that uses a series of electromagnets to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds — but during a demonstration of ...

With its program to develop prototype electromagnetic rail guns entering its second phase, the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is launching an initiative to develop technology for a projectile for ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: China is optimistic about mounting plasma weapons on something as small as a tank despite challenges other militaries have had in developing the technology.... Here’s ...

For years, we've been hearing about the Navy's newest high-tech weapon: an electromagnetic railgun. While the railgun has been debuted in public before, the Department of Defense has just released ...

Rail gun is energized and aluminum mass is turned into a plasma and the controlled electromagnetic forces guide the plasma with the projectile ahead of it out the barrel at ludicrous speed. Hence, you ...

A railgun seems like something that only top-secret government weapons programs can have, right? But not this railgun, apparently. That's because this railgun, the GR-1 Anvil, is something you can ...

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