Defense contractor General Atomics is reviving its electromagnetic railgun technology as part of a renewed US effort to build a nationwide air and missile defense system, including reinforced defenses ...

Chinese defence researchers have outlined a long-term architecture for electrically powered 60 ton tank powered by a compact ...

Railgun DAO, a blockchain project that uses zero-knowledge cryptography to provide extra privacy to users when making transactions, said it has teamed with the Turkish developer Chainway to add a ...

The U.S. military has spent billions on ambitious weapons programs that were eventually cancelled, but some of their technology survived. The Navy's experimental railgun cost roughly $500 million and ...

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China’s military researchers have proposed a 60-tonne nuclear-powered tank featuring a 50 MJ electromagnetic railgun capable of launching projectiles at 3.5 km/s. The concept targets a 450-km range, w ...

Watching old war movies, we expect firing a navy gun to be accompanied by a deafening bang and a dramatic cloud of burnt powder. This being the 21st century, the US Navy has other ideas as it prepares ...

For more than three years now, I've been tracking the U.S. Navy's progress toward building a working electromagnetic railgun prototype-- a Mach 6 cannon reputedly capable of striking targets 110 miles ...

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From the time the first steel was cut to the date it was commissioned, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford-- currently leading the fight against Iran -- took more than a dozen years to design, ...

After spending more than $500 million, the Department of Defense is moving away from its railgun project and instead leaning towards a mixture of new and existing technologies. The U.S. Navy’s highly ...