National Security Journal on MSN
‘Cracked Barrels’: The U.S. Navy’s Big Railgun Failure Explained in Just 2 Sad Word
Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...
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 ...
The National Interest on MSN
Japan Has Beaten the United States to the Railgun
Japan signed a railgun technology cooperation agreement with France and Germany in May 2024, involving joint research through the French-German Research Institute. European interest in this new weapon ...
DAHLGREN -- A futuristic weapon demonstrated its destructive power in a trial run conducted by the Navy today at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren. Engineers fired the electromagnetic ...
It's official. The U.S. Navy is building a railgun. Almost READY TO AIM AND FIRE -- BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE NAVY'S NEW ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN. IMAGE SOURCE: U.S. NAVY. Earlier this month, the U.S.
The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The ...
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