US Navy Photo WASHINGTON, D.C. – Engineering studies to include an electromagnetic railgun on a Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG-1000) have started at Naval Sea Systems Command, NAVSEA’s head said ...

The Navy has been testing an electromagnetic railgun and could have an operational unit ready to go on one of the new Zumwalt-class destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works. Adm.

A United States Navy admiral is pushing to ... Officials have been eyeing the Zumwalt-class destroyers as a potential candidate to carry electromagnetic railgun since the warship program was ...

Why Trust Us? The USS Zumwalt ... chosen for the railgun sea trials. The USNS Trenton—which is identical in appearance—will host the trials instead. U.S. Navy image. Railguns use electricity ...

For the US Navy, there has long been some expectation that if the service developed a working railgun, it would use it to arm its Zumwalt-class destroyers, which have been in need of new weaponry.

The US Navy's latest toy, a railgun that can fire projectiles at ... That ship, the last of three Zumwalt-class destroyers, would be an ideal candidate because its Rolls Royce turbine generators ...

because even more modern Chinese warships lack the electrical generation capacity to power a railgun. In fact, only the US Navy's Zumwalt class destroyers have enough generation capacity to power ...

A US Navy destroyer test-fired hypervelocity projectiles ... of dollars and more than a decade into the development of railgun technology. But while these efforts have stalled, largely because ...

The U.S. Navy pulled the plug, for now, on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity. The Navy spent more than a decade developing the ...

There’s renewed interest of late in the US Navy’s (USN) electromagnetic railgun. Plans to perform ... the 5-inch guns on USN’s cruisers and destroyers. Table 1 shows the estimated outcomes ...

A US Navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait ... Washington said the latest voyage by the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold demonstrated its “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific ...