Rail gun

• 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.
(msnbc.com)
• Is it just me, or is the test footage of the militarys new electromagnetic railgun incredibly scary? The Naval super weapon has been in the works since 2005, but testing was limited to experimental lab models up until this point.
(The Stir)
• The weapon is known as an electromagnetic railgun. It consists of parallel rails and uses a magnetic field and electric current, instead of chemicals, to generate energy to fire the rounds, wh.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• The Navy came very, very close to losing its futuristic gun that shoots bullets with a giant electric charge.
(Wired News)
• The Associated Press reported Tuesday that the US Navy is getting closer to developing a powerful electromagnetically-powered gun for warships.
(GlobalPost)
• US Navy engineers fired the first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher, a future long-range tactical weapon, at a test facility, officials announced Tuesday.
(Economic Times)
• NORFOLK, Va. - Navy officials say theyre getting closer to one day equipping warships with an electromagnetic railgun that could allow ships to fire a projectile at targets up to 100 nautical miles away.
(FederalNewsRadio.com)
• It fires an 18kg metal slug up to 9000km/h from New York to Philadelphia, slamming into its target with 32 times the force of a "one-ton car being thrust at 100mph (160km/h)". Railguns aren't sci-fi anymore.
(Gizmodo Australia)
• On Tuesday, test fire video was released of an electromagnetic railgun. In the video, a metal projectile is loaded and test fired in a cloud of fire and smoke before it slams through its target.
(San Diego Channel)
• Just weeks after the U.S. Navy trotted out images and a few short videos of its devastating electromagnetic "railgun", (EM Railgun, blowing a fiery hole in a target at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va.
(Scientific American)