Engineers in England have achieved nuclear fusion by firing a giant gun at a fuel sample. Researchers at First Light Fusion designed the method to be as simple as possible, and a viable alternative to ...

An M777 155mm howitzer fires at Yuma Proving Ground's Kofa Firing Range. (Chuck Wullenjohn/U.S. Army) HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army is slated to begin evaluating a hypervelocity projectile for the ...

The U.S. military's vaunted hypervelocity projectile (HVP) just took major step towards knocking incoming cruise missiles out of the sky By Jared Keller Published Sep 4, 2020 5:15 PM EDT The U.S.

Have you ever sat down and thought “I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?” Neither have we. That’s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of us. He didn’t just ask ...

The Los Angeles Police Department has issued an immediate moratorium on the use of certain projectile weapons at protests after city attorneys interpreted a federal court order as precluding their use ...

Figure 1: Formation of Copernicus crater by a low-speed impact. Figure 3: Impact velocity distribution on the Moon. The planetary geology community has not previously considered the possibility that ...

A projectile launched into Israel from Yemen overnight into Saturday struck Tel Aviv, resulting in mild injuries to 16 people, according to Israeli officials. Israel's military said after sirens ...

The clock seems to be running out for the Navy's much-hyped electromagnetic railgun after the service closed down development on the hypervelocity round it was meant to fire in order to make room for ...