A railgun seems like something that only top-secret ... is that the future of guns is starting to look a lot like science fiction in real life.

An electromagnetic rail gun is a gun that uses just electricity ... The U.S. military is the first to test railguns in anything approaching real-life conditions. The hyper-velocity projectiles ...

Long relegated to the world of science fiction, lasers and rail guns are increasingly appearing in real life ... In 2012, the US Navy test-fired a rail gun for the first time and later announced ...

Arnie packing railgun rifles in the 1996 movie Eraser. The real-life version may be made in China. Coilguns and railguns achieve the same thing via slightly different mechanisms. A railgun has two ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs ...

DAHLGREN, Va.—A warning siren bellowed through the concrete bunker of a top-secret Naval facility where U.S. military engineers prepared to demonstrate a weapon for which there is little defense ...