A Navy spokesperson said the service is halting the project this year to free up funding for other …

China announced it will "soon" be arming its warships with railguns, a technology which uses electr…

It is, however, unclear which country is leading the charge on this new technology, as very little …

"It's not useful military technology," Bryan Clark, an expert with the Center for Strategic and Bud…

Additionally, the Chinese will have to clear the same engineering and operational hurdles that have…

The Navy has long sought the technology as a potential game-changer for surface warfare, as China, …

The same concept could presumably be applied to the 155 mm Advanced Gun Systems (AGS) aboard the Zu…

While more expensive than initially promised, a hypervelocity projectile with an improved guidance …

These hypervelocity projectiles are fired through the barrel via sabots that hold the round in plac…

The size and shape of the weapon are roughly the same as the US Navy's own prototype rail gun, and …

Hyperloop One is laying off most of its employees and selling its remaining assets, Bloomberg repor…

The People's Liberation Army appears to have begun soliciting vendors for magnetized plasma artille…

A June report from the Center for a New American Security, co-authored by former Deputy Secretary o…

The Zumwalt-class destroyers will be the US Navy's first warfighting vessels to be armed with hyper…

China is currently "on the verge of fielding some of the most modern weapon systems in the world," …

Every US aircraft carrier has two sets of onboard missile defenses as well as a close-in weapons sy…

"Directed energy has the potential to redefine military technology beyond missiles and our pulse po…

Although the Chinese warship is not as technologically advanced as the Zumwalt, which remains unmat…

Despite these many successful tests, the two weapons aren't currently operational, Bob Freeman, a s…

The destroyer, technically large enough to be classified as a cruiser, has a substantial payload ca…