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‘Cracked Barrels’: The U.S. Navy’s Big Railgun Failure Explained in Just 2 Sad Word
Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...
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Japan Has Beaten the United States to the Railgun
Japan signed a railgun technology cooperation agreement with France and Germany in May 2024, involving joint research through ...
Japan reached a new defense milestone in the summer of 2025 after successfully test-firing a high-power electromagnetic railgun at a moving naval target. According to the Acquisition Technology & ...
Trump wants battleships back in the Navy's inventory, and that may be far-fetched, but his remarks do highlight real ...
The first weapon-scale prototype of a futuristic Navy railgun began undergoing firing tests last week, the next big step toward putting the electromagnetic superweapon on U.S. warships by 2020. The ...
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