In theory, a railgun would be safer and potentially cheaper to fire than traditional weapons. Navy plans have called for installing the railgun on the Navy's three DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class ...

Instead of gunpowder, railgun technology uses electromagnetic energy to fire a projectile along a set of rails at ultra-high velocity. The round will then in theory destroy the target, which could ...

While in theory, the rail gun concept could provide a huge asset to a Navy’s armament capabilities, several technical issues have prevented it from coming to fruition. The overarching problem ...

As Japan's biggest defence exhibition kicked off this week, visitors got a close-up look at a model of its futuristic ...