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

Railgun expanded its value locked to a new peak in February, holding over $113M in deposits. The mixer is mostly used to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers are experimenting with a new rail gun design to help overcome the firepower limitations of existing designs.

China’s military scientists have unveiled a new electromagnetic railgun concept that could dramatically alter the balance of long-range weaponry. Detailed in a paper from the People’s Liberation ...

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive ...

As one might expect, Tokyo’s railgun is far cheaper than the Pentagon’s similar project. America’s leadership thinks that the United States military, in its current form, is prepared to fight—and ...