The United States Navy has quietly resumed live-fire testing of a prototype electromagnetic railgun.

Japan’s 40mm railgun stays smaller than U.S. efforts; small-caliber prototypes are planned by 2027, setting clearer deployment steps.

In early April, a ship sailed out from Yokosuka port bearing what might be the future of naval warfare. Mounted on the deck of the JS Asuka, a test ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, was a ...

An electromagnetic rail gun would use magnetic fields created by electrical currents to accelerate a sliding metal conductor along two rails. Larry Greenemeier reports The Pentagon is closer to adding ...

BAE Systems (Booth 613) is developing a hypervelocity projectile, or HVP, for the U.S. Navy’s Mark 45 5-inch gun as a counter-unmanned aerial system option to engage aerial targets. The Mk45 is the ...