China’s latest electromagnetic weapon has intensified a quiet but growing global race for railgun technology. While the U.S. Navy abandoned its railgun program to focus on hypersonic weapons, China ...

China has signaled plans for a next-generation, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier capable of deploying high-energy laser weapons and electromagnetic rail guns, a technology the United States once ...

China acquired naval platforms from Russia to rapidly boost its capabilities throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.