The USS Zumwalt, lead ship of a new class of advanced stealth destroyers, was commissioned on Saturday, ... The U.S. Navy's prototype railgun requires 25 megawatts to function properly.

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 Thursday. The ...

BATH, Maine (AP) — Development of a futuristic weapon depicted in science fiction is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational ...

THE zumwalt-class ddg-1000 AT A GLANCE. THE LARGEST: The Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 ship is the largest destroyer ever built for the Navy, at 15,000 tons based on the weight of the water it displaces.

In theory, a railgun would be safer and potentially cheaper to fire than traditional weapons. Navy plans have called for installing the railgun on the Navy's three DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class ...

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.

In addition the Zumwalt will be built to receive the Navy's new electromagnetic rail-gun that can fire projectiles at over five times the speed of sound. All this new technology adds up. Defense ...

Next-generation “electric warships” like the Zumwalt can channel 78 megawatts ... get out of the electromagnetic rail gun, ... to date to prevent the Navy from having a railgun in ...

The U.S. Navy’s push to create a $500 million electromagnetic railgun weapon—capable of slinging projectiles at hypersonic speeds—appears to have come to an end.

Generating the railgun’s electromagnetic fields requires a capacitor base that only “electric warships” like the USS Zumwalt can currently generate, as Task & Purpose previously reported in ...

Generating the railgun's electromagnetic fields requires a capacitor base that only "electric warships" like the USS Zumwalt can currently generate, as Task & Purpose previously reported in ...

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.