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Railguns failed the ship test. Hypersonics fit the fleet
Why did the U.S. Navy’s electromagnetic railgun fade away while hypersonic weapons kept moving forward? The answer sits less ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
Hypersonic promise and hard reality: The railgun dilemma on America’s future battleship
Meet the ‘most lethal surface warship to appear in a long, long time’ the Trump-class battleship, which will be the next ...
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 (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 ...
General Atomics is holding talks with the U.S. government to clarify the role of railguns on the upcoming Trump-class ...
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 ...
The U.S. Navy plans to install and test a prototype electromagnetic railgun aboard a joint high speed vessel (JHSV) in fiscal year 2016, the service announced today. You must be logged in to rate.
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