The Navy Wants To Fire Its Ridiculously Strong Railgun From The Ocean

BAE Railgun Naval Sea Systems Command In 2016, the U.S. Navy is going to test a railgun--a weapon that can repeatedly launch a projectile at more than 5,000 MPH--from a boat. In 2018, they're going to do it again. And in the 2020s, the Navy is going to figure out just what to do with a gun that seemed like science fiction decades ago. Speaking at the Navy League's Sea Air Space exposition in National Harbor, Maryland, Rear Admiral Bryant Fuller told the assembled crowd of journalists, servicemen...