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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone who's played a futuristic shooter since the dawn of video games knows that when you see something called a "railgun" you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, the Pentagon has funneled money into the development of several next-generation, directed-energy weapons through the Navy’s Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E) ...

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 ...