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 ...

The US Navy has just released footage of their new rail gun being tested. Seen in the video above, this new electromagnetic rail gun is seriously intimidating. On the Navy’s YouTube page, officials ...

An electromagnetic rail gun would use magnetic fields created by electrical currents to accelerate a sliding metal conductor along two rails. Larry Greenemeier reports The Pentagon is closer to adding ...

US aircraft carriers have been nuclear powered for many decades and the newest Ford supercarrier has electromagnetic launchers. What is new in the Weiming designs are the extensive integration of rail ...

The U.S. Army and Navy's electromagnetic (EM) gun programs, intended to increase projectile velocity by using a more efficient energy source, are a collaborative effort between the services based on ...

The technology sounds like a lethal Rube Goldberg machine: an electrical circuit generates high voltage pulses, that ignites a plasma cartridge that then triggers explosives to propel projectiles at ...