The National Interest

The U.S. Navy’s Hyper Velocity Projectile: A Mach 7.5 Super Bullet

The Navy, DoD and even the Army are also experimenting with integrating the rail gun hypervelocity projectile with existing weapons platforms such as the Navy’s 5-inch guns or Army Howitzer. Also, the ...
The National Interest

The Hyper Velocity Projectile: How the Navy Could Fire 5,600 MPH ‘Bullets’ at Missiles

The Pentagon is pursuing an innovation missile-defense system that could address some of the shortcomings of the existing systems it deploys. There are a number of major (somewhat interrelated) ...
Aviation Week

U.S. Army Hypervelocity Projectile Plan Ready, Pending Funding

Credit: BAE Systems HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—The U.S. Army has an acquisition plan in waiting for appropriated funds to bring on a U.S. Navy-developed hypervelocity projectile to be used for air defense.
HotHardware

U.S. Navy's Frighteningly Powerful Railgun May Be Scrapped In $500M Boondoggle

The U.S. Navy has spent half a billion dollars working to perfect a new type of projectile weapons technology that could be used in current and future naval ships. That gun is the railgun, which has ...