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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Of these, the USS Zumwalt is the only completed ship. It is unclear what will happen to the weapon system, or whether other proposed systems, such as the Navy’s high-tech rail gun , would be ...

The USS Zumwalt's sheer magnitude commands awe, boasting an impressive length of 610 feet and a displacement exceeding 15,000 tons. What sets it apart is the innovative Integrated Power System ...

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 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 ...

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 electromagnetic railgun developed by BAE Systems for the U.S. Navy has a lot going for it. It is smaller than a conventional cannon. It can fire a projectile up to 4,600 mph, or around Mach 6 ...

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 ...