Key Points and Summary - The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from brutal heat and electromagnetic stress in under 30 shots, fire rates lagged, ...

CAMDEN - Gun barrels manufactured and fired during World War II returned ahead of schedule Monday to the Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial on the city waterfront. The 16-inch/50-caliber rifle ...

A battleship gun barrel used by the Navy in World War II that seemed destined for the scrapyard will soon get a second life. Coast Defense Study Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving ...

China appears to have beaten the U.S. in the race to mount a rail gun on a battleship, as Popular Mechanics reported Dec. 31. Does it matter? Sort of. Maybe. Rail guns are devices that use ...

WTF?! In news that certainly sounds concerning, China's navy has reportedly tested an electromagnetic rail gun by firing a smart bomb nine miles into the stratosphere at a speed exceeding Mach 5 ...