found: Work cat: O'Rourke, Ronald. Navy lasers, railgun, and gun-launched guided projectile, version 36, 2018:p. 1 (electromagnetic railgun (EMRG); railgun is also spelled as rail gun; EMRG is also abbreviated as EM railgun) p. 11 (sometimes referred to as a launcher rather than a gun or cannon; not a directed energy weapon)
found: The Oxford essential dictionary of the U.S. military, 2001(rail gun: a weapon in which a projectile is accelerated electromagnetically along a pair of rails, used especially as an antimissile weapon)
found: Armed with Science blog, Dec. 12, 2018:"Here comes the BOOM: The Real Railgun of the U.S. Navy" (5 parts to the system: launcher, energy storage, pulse forming network, hypervelocity projectile, and gun mount)
notfound: Web. 3
