Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...

Chinese researchers are experimenting with a new rail gun design to help overcome the firepower limitations of existing designs. They believe that stacking two rail guns in an X-shape in a single ...

Investments will fund NearStar Fusion's first-generation plasma railgun and experiments on prototype fuel targets at hypervelocity. Our design is well-suited to retrofit coal burning power plants and ...

It’s huge, it’s unwieldy, and it takes 45 seconds to shoot all three rounds in its magazine. But it’s a legitimate semi-automatic railgun, and it’s pretty awesome. Yes, it has its limits, but every ...