Japan’s 40mm railgun stays smaller than U.S. efforts; small-caliber prototypes are planned by 2027, setting clearer deployment steps.

China’s military scientists have unveiled a new electromagnetic railgun concept that could dramatically alter the balance of long-range weaponry. Detailed in a paper from the People’s Liberation ...

In order to give its on-board weaponry a kick in the pants, the U.S. Navy is actively pursuing the development of a new electric-based launcher system—the Electromagnetic Railgun—through two separate ...

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 Office of Naval Research (ONR) demonstrates the Navy’s electromagnetic railgun initial rep-rate fires of multi-shot salvos at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. The revolutionary ...

U.S. Navy researchers needed energy storage technologies to help develop a long-range shipboard weapon that fires projectiles using electrical power instead of chemical propellants. They found their ...

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program recently started to evaluate the second of two industry railgun prototype launchers at a facility in Dahlgren, Va., officials ...

As one might expect, Tokyo’s railgun is far cheaper than the Pentagon’s similar project. America’s leadership thinks that the United States military, in its current form, is prepared to fight—and ...