Key Points and Summary on Japan's New Railgun - While the U.S. Navy's ambitious and expensive railgun program was canceled in 2021 after 15 years and $500 million in spending, Japan has successfully ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.