There’s dead, mostly dead, and then there’s the Navy’s railgun, which appears to have been resurrected along with the battleship.

U.S. soldiers and Marines have fired Raytheon’s Excalibur guided artillery shell more than 1,000 times in land combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems is vying to ...

NATO warships deployed to the Red Sea have used their deck guns to shoot down Houthi drones. The deck guns fire cheaper ammunition than expensive surface-to-air missiles. Former US Navy officers told ...

Today's US Navy may be poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago. A unique and little-known ship packed a formidable punch in the Korean and Vietnam wars. This ...

A group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. There were older photos that China had ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy's Iowa-class battleships in the ...

Sailors on a trim, haze-grey U.S. destroyer cheered as two seamen pulled away the stencil to show off a new decoration on the side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium ...

Before he bestrode the continent and prefigured the ghastliness of modern European history — religious impulses sublimated in politics — Napoleon Bonaparte was an artillery captain. Today, another ...

A Detroit neighborhood was put on edge when a crew preparing a house for demolition came across two artillery shells. The house on Marlowe Street has been abandoned for many years, but someone who ...

NATO warships deployed to the Red Sea have been using their deck weapons, from autocannons to naval artillery guns, to shoot down Houthi drones over the past few months. The engagements demonstrate ...