Military Technology Zone's video: Is The Chinese Navy Preparing to Test a Railgun

The Chinese navy seems to be the first navy to install electromagnetic railguns on warships. The weapon was spotted on an old Chinese Navy landing craft in Wuhan and images of it quickly spread across the Internet. If this is true, then China has placed a real railgun on a warship before the US Navy, which has been testing its own railgun on land for years. Railguns are an entirely new type of weapon system that uses electricity and magnetism instead of the energy of a gunpowder explosion. Railguns use electricity to generate very strong electromagnetic fields between two rails. A conductive metal device, called an armature, picks up a projectile and accelerates down the path between the rails, slinging the projectile downrange.