When people use and charge electric cars, they will talk about the wattage of a charger, and how many kWh they put or can put in a battery. They also talk about miles of range and percentage “State of ...

Like every other red-blooded American boy, I enjoy the notion of propelling a piece of lead at up to Mach 8 and at “extreme” ranges. That’s why I was glad to hear that BAE Systems has delivered a rail ...

Defense contractor General Atomics is reviving its electromagnetic railgun technology as part of a renewed US effort to build a nationwide air and missile defense system, including reinforced defenses ...

BAE Systems has delivered a functional, 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun (32-MJ LRG) to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. Installation of the laboratory launcher ...

More than anything, the ambition of the military’s top scientists has to be admired. From advanced remote-controlled robots to sonic cannons to laser beams, weaponized combat is starting to look less ...

In their quest to be the first to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction using lasers scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have delivered more ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 megajoules (MJ) to 2.6 MJ as part of the Enhanced ...

Scientists at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully delivered an historic level of laser energy -- more than 1 megajoule -- to a target in a few ...

Lucid Group Inc (NASDAQ: LCID) CEO Peter Rawlinson said on Thursday his former workplace Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) nearly named its full-sized electric sedan Model S as 300 Megajoule about a decade ago ...

Japan has released new images of its ship-mounted railgun firing from the test ship JS Asuka on September 10, marking a milestone in the country’s push to develop directed-energy weapons for the Japan ...

The mere mention of the word brings back visions of the original first-person-shooters to grace our now-antiquated machines, and now the US Navy is getting real personal with a realized version of the ...