These rail guns will fire a projectile away from the ship at around Mach 7 on a ballistic trajectory to a target one hundred miles away. It’s an even more impressive piece of artillery than a ...

Power would be generated by a ship’s integrated power system, which is designed to generate, store, and release huge amounts of electricity.” While in theory, the rail gun concept could ...

with the class remaining in service well into the Second World War and beyond. Imagine a ship with a profile so low it barely pokes above the waves. Then, imagine strapping an enormous gun or two ...

Military engineers have managed to create an electromagnetic rail gun that does not suffer damage ... in a paper published on November 10. "War machines are slowly shifting from chemical power ...