Though the U.S. Navy’s initiative was ultimately unsuccessful, it is not the end of the line for the hardware involved in the effort — rather than simply tossing the technology to the wayside or ...

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s ambitious railgun program has quietly faded, replaced by the pragmatic reality of hypersonic missiles and directed-energy systems. -While the railgun promised ...

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 ...

A Dayton company is among three companies that will work under a $34.5 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to develop an advanced railgun weapon. The contract announced Monday is to ...

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 ...